Vital Tips Every Executive Should Know About Striking A Balance Between Work and Domestic Fulfillment

The pursuit of self-actualization and efforts to sustain the consistency of the upward mobility curve often means entrepreneurs and team leaders have so much on their plate at the professional front that they hardly have time for other equally critical aspects of their lives, particularly in the area of family roles and presence. Expectedly, such passion for the job often produces great results on the professional and business front. But sadly, that comes at great cost in terms of the level of disconnect at the domestic front.

The pertinent question is: of what value is the professional success that doesn't lead to fulfillment at the home front? You'll agree with me that such value is negative. How then can a business leader best strike a fair balance between work, family, and other vital social relationships? I'll share with you a formula that works, the key element of which is the ability to harmonize the value you place on those areas of your life, blending the same with practical work and family multi-tasking skills. 

Here’s what every smart leader must do:

1. Make Your Domestic Relationship Needs An Aspect of Your Work.

This tip is for those who can’t seem to get off “work mode”. It could get so bad that the issue may not be about the heavy workload at work but the fact that they are just obsessed with it. The way to strike a balance here is to factor every time and things you need to do at the home front as an extension of “your normal work”. It’s like owning a grocery shop and paying for every product you use from the stop. In the end, nobody cares about the method, you get fulfillment and the other people in your life too.

2 Draw A Line Between Work and Family Time

This is somewhat a reverse of tip one above. For some people, both time spent at work and that spent with family and friends are equally just as draining as the other. As a result, they can hardly apply the first tip. The option is to create time for both in such a way that one doesn’t suffer for the other. This is by no means a small task, especially for 9-5 daily workers. You don’t want to mess with the weekend of such leaders!

3. Merge Your Official and Domestic Duties Through Multi-tasking

This is the meat of the tips and by all means a tall order. While corporate women tend to thrive better at this due to some natural inclinations, top male executives can equally thrive here. For instance, you could hire someone to do the dropping and be picking up of the kids from school so you could have more time to focus and run the business of the day. Great. But you could also decide to work out a schedule to do all that by yourself, have some quality bonding time along the way, and get let in into their world. Far, far greater!

“Sounds cool, but I don’t have all that time!”, some might say. Well, you would if or when things go wrong because of a lack of it.

You see, the bottom line of these tips is the fact that there’s a need to attribute equal value to your professional, family, and social fulfillment needs. Whether you choose to create separate time schedules to pursue them or to multi-task yourself to do it all together, you can rest assured that this formula will deliver anytime.

Personally, I’m tilted towards tip three. Getting fully involved on the domestic front can be fulfilling and eye-opening in many ways, especially when kids are involved. That’s me. How about you, what’s your favorite of the three? Or how do you strike the all-important balance in your own space?