What do you do if your career success is overshadowing your personal life?

Take a sincere look at how your professional achievements are affecting your personal life. Are you feeling like you're not fully experiencing important events? Feeling perpetually exhausted? Identify the aspects in your personal life that you believe could benefit from improvement.

Achieving balance between career success and personal life is crucial. Set clear boundaries, prioritize self-care, and practice effective time management. Delegate tasks, learn to say no, and communicate openly with your employer about workload. Invest in relationships, seek support when needed, and regularly reassess priorities. Strive for a healthy balance to sustain well-being and fulfillment.

Something that has helped me is to stop looking at my own self care as separate from my professional success. Part of being able to be successful in my work is taking care of myself. I'm better at work if I'm healthier, happier, more fit, and well rested. I need to be able to exercise, eat right, find time to unplug, and/or spend time with family. If my work prevents any of that from happening, it's also interfering with my ability to perform at work. Taking care of yourself physically, mentally, and emotionally is part of the job.

Assessing balance between career success and personal life is essential for overall well-being and happiness. Take time to assess what truly matters to you. Reflect on your values, goals, and aspirations both professionally and personally. Establish boundaries between work and personal life. Define specific times when you will focus on work and when you will prioritize personal activities and relationships. Track how you spend your time each day. Identify areas where work may be consuming too much time at the expense of personal life. Reflect on how satisfied you feel in both your career and personal life. Are there areas in your personal life that need more attention or improvement?

This can often be hard to do, but I've found blocking off specific and consistent times in my work calendar to be super helpful. Maybe it's blocking off your morning from when you wake up to when you get the kids off to school. Perhaps it's blocking off the last couple of hours in your regular work day to close out on work for the day. Whatever it is, blocking off some time to set some boundaries and be intentional about how you use your time is healthy.

Setting boundaries when your career success is overshadowing your personal life is crucial for maintaining balance and well-being. Identify Your Priorities: Determine what truly matters most to you in your personal life. This could include relationships, health, hobbies, or self-care. Clearly outline specific boundaries between work and personal life. Decide when work ends and personal time begins. For example, avoid checking work emails after a certain hour. Communicate your boundaries to your colleagues, clients, or supervisor. Be assertive but respectful in expressing when you are available for work-related matters. Practice saying no to tasks or projects that encroach upon your personal time or exceed your capacity.

The secret to adhering to setting boundaries at work is to create a framework for yourself around your personal boundaries. Getting in touch with the cost and pain of overworking and what you feel is the foundation for making serious decisions with yourself. Communication has to be short and direct with fellow colleagues and you have to fight with yourself to stay steadfast with your personal boundaries no matter what!

Understand that taking care of yourself is essential for sustained success and happiness in all areas of life. Reflect on how your career is impacting your personal life. Identify areas where you feel imbalance or neglect in personal well-being. Define personal goals that are separate from your career ambitions. These could include health goals, relationship goals, or hobbies you want to pursue. Set boundaries between work and personal life. Determine specific times when you will focus solely on personal activities and avoid work-related tasks. Delegate tasks at work and prioritize responsibilities based on importance and urgency. This can help free up time for personal endeavors.

A "Tripod Model of Life". One of my mentors many decades back sowed the seed of the idea. Life is a tripod wirh one leg amongst 1) Profesisonal Life 2) Relationship & 3) Health & Self always unbalanced. That is because at one time as humans we can only put energy and focus behind one leg leaving others to decay or get unbalanced. The trick thus is not to find or aspire for a perfectly balanced tripod as no such entity exists. But to develop a very strong inner core so as to stay on top and be comfortable on a wobbly tripod.

Remember to prioritise your own self-care. Make sure to prioritise time for relaxation, hobbies, and activities that bring you joy. This could involve anything from cherishing moments with loved ones to exploring a creative passion. Prioritising self-care is essential for preventing burnout and cultivating a greater sense of presence in every area of your life.

Even though you are practicing sel care your brain might get in the way because being consistent or taking this time for you can play out in a variety of damaging thoughts while you’re doing the self care thing. Beware; 1. Guilt 2. The “slave driver.” 3. The “Judger.” 4. The “Bossy worker bee.” In your head. A Mindset Coach can help you with this.

Seeking support would be a great Idea ?? to have a mentor you can check in on and see how your life balance ?? is working out on a weekly basis, or when you feel overwhelmed

Support from a coach who has experienced this struggle and has mastered navigating the work/life paradigm is valuable and worth the investment.

Support from a coach who has experienced this struggle and has mastered navigating the work/life paradigm is valuable and worth the investment.

Support from a coach who has experienced this struggle and has mastered navigating the work/life paradigm is valuable and worth the investment.

The journey of life is full of twists and turns. There may be occasions when work requires additional focus. Flexibility is crucial, allowing you to adapt and modify your boundaries when necessary. It is important to have open communication with your employer or colleagues if you require temporary adjustments due to personal commitments.

Recently had the opportunity to hear a talk by Molly Fletcher. She said something that stuck with me: “Be Present”. When you are working, immerse and be present, try not to multitask - listen to people. When you are home, be at home, close the laptop and put down the smart phone. Be present. Thank you Molly!

Balance is the key to life, and when one aspect of your life overshadows another, it is time to do an assessment and figure out a better work life balance. You aren’t any good to your organization if you are burnt out so make sure you set aside that time to do self care, and spend precious time with your family, you will be much better off for it.

Having worked with global teams, it is challenging to balance work when there are very few overlaps across time zones. One thing to do is work a flexible schedule on a standard schedule each week. This helps ensure that important meetings can be held without imposing on your personal schedule. I would also block my calendar every day for time reserved for personal commitments. It creates predictability. Over time people will understand when you are and aren’t available. If someone schedules over personal time, you should respectfully decline and respond with your availability.