If you have started feeling that your work and life balance has been disappearing slowly, it is time to take action. When the work-life balance gets disturbed, it directly affects your productivity, whether at work or while handling personal responsibilities. You have to play several roles in your daily life and it is essential that you have the energy and enthusiasm to complete all. In case you think it is currently not happening in your life, then there are ways to boost up your productivity. Let’s see what all you can start with.
First, you need to manage your time so it is available to fulfill all your activities. For this purpose, you should start maintaining an activity dairy in which you write down all the weekly plans you have made to achieve. Don’t just write down your work- and family-related tasks, but include in this list all such activities you are longing to do for yourself, your friends or your community. If you think you had been planning to take on gardening for a long time, pen it down in your activity dairy.
Set a proper schedule for when and how to do each task so that your whole week’s items are organized and make you more productive at them. You may probably set a time at the beginning of the week when you can make this plan. Also, follow your plan religiously so you slowly get to become more accountable. When you have a set time for say, checking your mails or working on a project, you become more focused to work on it during your fixed timings, as you would know that further activities could be delayed if you do not complete this task on time. This leads to more coming out of you than would usually be.
In addition to the above, you waste less time and that adds to your productivity. Another thing you may do to be more productive is to allocate work to others when it is possible. Don’t think that you have the responsibility to do all the tasks in this world. Delegate things your team can do at work. Similarly, try allocating certain homely responsibilities to your children if they are grown up. In fact, this would make others happier as you tend to give more importance to them by recognizing their abilities. Thus, it’s a win-win situation and you ultimately become a more productive person.