Forget work-life balance. It's time for work-life boundaries.
Danielle Zeitlen Hughes
Chief Personality Officer | Professional Speaker | Facilitates Personal(ity) Branding workshops to engage, retain and attract talent | Love your LinkedIn bio | Payment accepted in bottles of Bordeaux
Can we finally agree that work-life balance is bullshit? To truly be good at something you have to give it your all. So if you want to prioritize work, it needs to take precedence over your personal life.
Balance is about equality and as the image above attests, you can perhaps have it for a short while but eventually you're going to fall over. And where did this idea of everything needing to be equal even come from?
Many of us can't control the amount of work we have. But we can control the parameters around that work. The reason quiet quitting has become such a hot topic is because people are sick of burning the candle at both ends. And that's because they haven't established the boundaries around which they work.
I don't care who you work for, no one owns you and no one can tell you that you need to be available 24/7. This goes for business owners as well. The reason you got into business for yourself was to be in control of who you work with, what you do and when and how you work.
If you don't have boundaries, well, you're not in control then are you? Your clients are.
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The reason so many of us struggle to define our boundaries around work is we haven't defined our brand. If you aren't clear on who you serve and what you do it's hard to delineate the right work, the right clients and the right time. When you're just taking everything that comes your way, you'll never get off the hamster wheel.
Plus, you won't have expertise or authority over your work or your clients. They'll see you as a pushover because you haven't established the right not to be. The same holds true for employees. If your manager doesn't know your value or what you can do for them, they'll give you all the stuff that isn't a fit for you. This will overwhelm and exhaust you.
But, when you're clear on your Personality Brand, you can assert yourself in all the right ways.
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1 年Love this Danielle Zeitlen Hughes. This is my favourite line in your article: “Can we finally agree that work-life balance is bullshit? “ Yes, I agree! It’s all about boundaries.
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1 年I've been saying that due to the pandemic and not running around on planes, trains, and automobiles... I finally found work/life balance, but now that we are back with the potential of running around again...I am setting boundaries to not overdo it. "No," is a complete sentence. Ha.
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1 年Profound truth! Thank you for bringing attention to personal branding. This is something that's easy to loose sight of if we're not being mindful, and acting with intention. ??
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1 年Danielle Zeitlen Hughes I couldn't agree with you more! I launched my content agency for more flexibility and balance in my life as a mom to younger kids. My industry focus (legal) isn't one in which work-life boundaries have historically been good. The pandemic forced some recognition of that, but it's still a double struggle for me as a business owner in an industry where "responsiveness" often means 24/7 access.
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1 年And that's why we should work on a priority basis. ??