Managing a Healthy Work-Life Balance: 7 Tips

Managing a Healthy Work-Life Balance: 7 Tips

Disclaimer: this is a guest post by Fingerprint For Success

The scales of life can be tipped easily and occasionally in ways that are detrimental to our health. But you can lead a healthier lifestyle if you can make a few minor adjustments every day. Better life quality and quantity follow a good balance.

Before we begin, make sure you read this article about the 35 critical work-life balance stats everyone should know.

7 Tips to Manage a Healthy Work-life Balance

Keep Up Your Exercise Routine

Exercise is frequently one of the first things individuals give up when their lives become hectic. It’s crucial to continue it, though. Stretching or taking a brisk stroll around the block can help, even if you just have 15 minutes to spare. Exercise is a terrific way to decompress naturally and clear your mind over lunch, so you’re ready to take on your afternoon task.

Put an appointment with yourself on your calendar and make sure you follow it if you find yourself neglecting your workouts.

Organize Yourself And Make A Meal Plan

Many people turn to takeout or prepared foods when their schedules become hectic in order to save time and effort. Soon, the majority of their lunches and dinners during the week will consist of convenience foods. The unhealthy habit might result in extra weight, making you feel lethargic and guilty about not making healthy meals. To plan your meals for the week and go shopping, try to set aside some time on the weekend or one evening. If you need ideas, the AltiusLife app contains more than 1,000 nutritious recipes. If you’re most likely to order takeout, if you have a few extra hours, you may prepare some meals in advance and freeze them.

Make A Fun Activity For Yourself

It’s easy to fall into a rut when life becomes busy. Soon, it seems like all we do is work, clean the house, and chase the kids around. Think of your favorite activities at the beginning of each month and arrange a time for them in your busy schedule. It may be as easy as getting up 30 minutes earlier to get breakfast and read a book before work, planning a movie night, or scheduling a weekend spa treatment. If you don’t schedule time for yourself, you might realize that your self-care hasn’t been adequate during the past six months.

Decide What Your Work Hours

Many Australian workers would tell you that they are putting in more hours now than they were before the outbreak. This could be the case for a number of reasons. Many workers now spend some or all of their workweeks working from home. They now work during the time they would have spent traveling and conversing with coworkers in the break room, putting in additional hours in front of the computer.

During the pandemic, some industries saw growth, or services that had been put on pause began to operate again. As a result, organizations are forcing their current employees to take on extra work, which frequently results in overtime that is either compensated or unpaid. A few days a week of getting up early or staying up late can be stressful and draining on the body and mind.

If you discover that you are working more, set your work hours and make an effort to adhere to them. If your schedule is flexible, make an effort to set aside at least one full day each week for rest and enjoyment.

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Limit Your Sitting Time

It’s likely that you sit too much if you have a desk job or spend a lot of your free time on the couch. Chronic illness and poor mental health are more likely to develop when you sit or lie down for too many hours each day. By standing and exercising more during the day, you can reduce your chances of developing diabetes, obesity, heart disease, depression, and anxiety. You run a greater risk of developing health problems if you sit for more than 11 hours a day or between 8 and 11 hours.

Go On A Break From Your Job

More than fifty percent of Australians who are entitled to yearly leave don’t take all of it each year. Most people put the blame for not taking vacations on being too busy and having too much work to accomplish, but these are the very reasons we should. You can relax, have fun, and spend valuable time with loved ones during your annual break.

Make sure to budget money and time for a vacation at least once a year if you’re among the one-third of Australian workers who don’t have access to paid time off. Avoiding breaks can cause burnout and the sense that you are working nonstop. Send your application for vacation time right away to help your company and yourself. Don’t put it off.

Socialize

Even though it’s easy to feel as though you don’t have time to host a get-together or ask folks over, maintaining personal connections is crucial. Socializing is fun, and a night out or a night in (through Zoom) might give you the impression that your job and personal life are somewhat balanced.

Social interaction has been shown to strengthen the immune system, enhance mental health, and maybe lower the risk of dementia.

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5 Great Blogging Resources For Planning and Organization

5 Great Blogging Resources For Planning and Organization

Whether you’re a new blogger or a veteran, I’m sure you’re always on the look for blogging resources for planning and organization that will make your life easier. I know I am.

For the past few years, I’ve gathered quite a few resources so today I decided to share them with you. Some of these I discovered through other bloggers and others I found randomly.

Hopefully, these blogging resources for planning and organization will make your blogging life easier and more enjoyable.

Blogging Resources for Planning and Organization

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Planning

Facebook Creator Studio

This is a life-saver when it comes to posting on Instagram.

If you don’t know yet, I have a Virtual Styling Instagram account where I post daily outfit inspiration. That takes a lot of work. And I don’t have the time to be posting manually every single day.

That’s where creator studio comes in.

I used to use Planoly to schedule my Ig posts but after I found that the images became pixelated when I used their auto-post feature, I decided to look for an alternative.

Facebook Creator Studio is super easy to work with and, unlike Planoly, the images don’t come out pixelated. I also love the fact that it doesn’t have a monthly upload limit, meaning I can schedule posts for more than a month if I want to.

Pinterest Native Scheduler

After having my account suspended last year, I’ve been much warier about how I schedule my pins. I still love Tailwind (aff link) and use it sometimes, but I’ve just found that the Pinterest native scheduler works wonderfully for me.

Buffer

I’ve been using buffer to schedule my tweets for years now. The whole interface is super intuitive so you won’t spend a lot of time trying to understand how it works.

With the free account, you can only schedule 10 tweets at a time but for me, that’s more than enough. I don’t want to be tweeting every hour of every day so 10 tweets work perfectly.

You can also decide when you want tweets to go live, which is amazing.

Organization

Notion

How I organize my life as a blogger, but I can’t rave about it enough. It’s literally an all-in-one platform.

You can go as simple and as complicated as you want with Notion. From plain old notes, to kanban boards, formulas, timelines, and galleries, Notion has it all.

I organize my whole blogging life on this app. If you’d like to see how I’ve written a whole post about it.

Evernote

Evernote is a blogging resource I’ve used pretty much since I started my blog, back in 2014.

I love Evernote’s web-clipper! I use it on a regular basis to collect newsletters, articles, and videos that I want to revisit later. This is a great tip for bloggers: have a resource library with things that inspire you so you can refer to it when creating your posts. The goal isn’t to copy other people’s work though- it’s to be inspired.

Since I create my posts in Notion, what I do is import the clips from Evernote to Notion. You just need to connect your Evernote account to your Notion account and click on the import button every time you want to move things.

Other resources you might like (af)

  • Complete Website/Blog Audit 
  • Digital Strategy Consultation – Socialbuzzhive
  • How to Be a Highly Successful Content Creator
  • Master Guide to Blogging for Profit 
Do you use any of these blogging resources for planning and organization?

If you want more resources, check out my previous post with other resources!

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19 Easy Ways To Spring-Clean Your Digital Space

19 Easy Ways To Spring-Clean Your Digital Space

Spring is often associated with cleaning and decluttering. We’re all pretty used to doing a huge deep clean of our homes when spring-time comes. But how often do you do it for or digital space?

If you’re like me, hardly ever, I presume.

Living in a mainly digital era, it is imperative that we clean our digital space as often as we do our physical one. With that being said, today’s post is all about how to clean and declutter for newbies.

All of these are small easy steps anyone can add up to their spring-cleaning routine, whether you’re an digital cleaning expert or not.

Living in a digital era, it's imperative that we clean our digital space as often as we do our physical one. Today's post is all about that.

How to spring-clean your digital space

  1. Clear out old screenshots
  2. Reorganize your productivity software to meet your current needs
  3. Change your phone background
  4. Create a vision board for the next quarter
  5. Unfollow people on social media
  6. Delete contacts you no longer need
  7. Organize your phone’s home screen
  8. Delete apps that you no longer use
  9. Unsubscribe from email newsletters
  10. Organize your email labels
  11. Organize your browser toolbar
  12. Clear your cloud storage
  13. Declutter your browser extensions
  14. Customize your finder sidebar
  15. Run antivirus
  16. Empty your trashcan
  17. Declutter computer apps
  18. Clear out downloads folder
  19. Organize all your documents into folders

Do you usually spring-clean your digital space alongside your physical one?

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4 Ways To Improve Productivity In Your Daily Life

4 Ways To Improve Productivity In Your Daily Life

So you want to be a productivity master. But, do you find yourself procrastinating instead of doing all the things on your to-do list? Is that to-do list endless? If the answer to all these questions is yes, then we’re on the same boat.

There are a few things to change that, and today’s post is all about it.

Today I’ll be sharing with you 4 simple things you can do today to improve productivity in your daily life.

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De-prioritize urgency

Sometimes we get sucked into tasks that won’t do anything for us.

Ask yourself: “‘What impact will this task have on my in 1-5 years?”. Most tasks won’t have any impact at all, but other will. So when deciding between writing a chapter of your book or re-organizing your family photos by date think about which task has the highest impact on your life in a year or two.

We often prioritize the urgent tasks over the important tasks. Most of the time that happens because the important tasks seem daunting and the urgent tasks make us feel like if we don’t do them right away we’re not being productive and diligent.

A great way to determine which tasks are important and which ones are urgent is to use the Eisenhower Matrix

The Eisenhower Matrix, also referred to as Urgent-Important Matrix, helps you decide on and prioritize tasks by urgency and importance, sorting out less urgent and important tasks which you should either delegate or not do at all.

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Do a to-do list audit

When creating your daily to-do list, think about these questions:

  1. How would my perfect day look like?
  2. What was the most important task that if I ticked off would make me feel accomplished?
  3. What were the other 2 to-dos that if I did them would make me feel amazing as well?

That’s the base of your daily planning. You should focus on a maximum of 3 things each that. This will make you feel less overwhelmed with your to-do list.

Think about it: you have a list of three things and you tick all of them off. You feel happy.

Or you have a list of 20 things and you tick off 3. You feel unaccomplished.

Having a smaller list doesn’t mean you’re less productive: it means you know your abilities and know what to focus on each day.

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Do you find yourself procrastinating instead of ticking off your to-do list? Here are 4 simple things you can do to improve productivity

Do a time audit

In order to be productive, you need to know your high-energy times and low-energy times. To do so, write down your times and every hour write down what you’re doing, your energy level, and how engaged you feel in what you’re doing. Now do it for a week.

You’ll start seeing patterns of things in your life. Maybe you’ll find out that you work best after 5 pm and you can’t concentrate between 9 am and 11 am.

If you want to see it in action, Rowena Tsai made a whole video about time vs energy.

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Change the way you spend your breaks

Resting well is as important as being productive.

Let me give you an example: you have this big important thing you need to do in the morning but you barely got any sleep the night before. What happens? You:

  1. will have an extremely hard time doing that thing;
  2. will take three hours to do the think that should take only 30 minutes
  3. won’t do the thing at all

You should take resting as seriously as being productive as it all goes hand-in-hand.

If you don’t know how to rest, or how to turn off from work here are a few ideas:

  1. Go outside – even if it’s just to your balcony to get fresh air for a few minutes
  2. Talk to someone – not about work though
  3. Take a long shower
  4. Eat a snack while reading or watching a show
  5. Journal
  6. Give yourself a facial
  7. Cook a meal

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30 Ways To Fill Up Empty Notebooks

30 Ways To Fill Up Empty Notebooks

Looking for new ways to fill up empty notebooks? Look no further. Here are 30 fun ways you can fill up your journals today!

If you’re reading this, it means you are, like myself, are a notebook addict. You can’t see a pretty notebook in a store that you have this sudden urge to have it, even if you have ten empty notebooks lying around in your home.

Looking for new ways to fill up your empty notebooks? Look no further. Here are 30 fun ways you can fill up your journals today!

Again, you’re just like me. And like a lot of people around the world.

Today I’ve compiled a list of thirty fun and creative ideas ways to fill up the empty notebooks you’ve had lying around your drawers for a long time now.

30 Ways To Fill Up Your Journals

  1. Commonplace Book
  2. Book Summaries
  3. Movie & Tv Show Reviews
  4. Running Task List
  5. Gift Planner
  6. Plant Tracking Notebook
  7. Pet Tracking Notebook
  8. Recipies
  9. Workout Planning
  10. Diet Tracking
  11. Prayer Journal
  12. Scrapbook
  13. Dream Journal
  14. Vocabulary Journal
  15. Quotes Journal
  16. Project Planner
  17. Mind Map Notebook
  18. Affirmations
  19. Goal Planner
  20. Address Book
  21. Fashion Journal
  22. Wedding Planner
  23. Pregnancy Diary
  24. Prompt Journal
  25. Meal Planner
  26. One Sentence a Day
  27. Gratitude Journal
  28. Home Renovation Notebook
  29. Family Health Journal
  30. Finance Notebook

If you want more ideas check out my 24 Ways To Fill Up Your Empty Notebooks post

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