Many people feel overloaded with work nowadays, there is no healthy work-life balance in their lives. Why are we facing this phenomena only now? It is a good question, and I’ll try to answer it.
The influence of technology on regular life is bigger than anyone could have expected 20 or 30 years ago. New technologies should have made our life easier, but they didn’t. Instead, they totally destroyed the border between work time and free time. Also, variety of social networks and entertainment services are stealing our free time in an attempt to earn as much money as possible.
What can we do about this? We can manage our time like everything else in life. Understanding the problem is half of the solution. Another half is time management.
As a rule, everyone has his own daily routine. It would be a great thing to track how much time and money you usually spend to get to the office. And if you make a coffee stop, how long it takes. Furthermore, you need to track how often you check your social media and email, because they are the biggest distraction in your work schedule.
After the calculations have been finished, you will have the opportunity to scale what you’ve got. You should optimize it in any way you find comfortable, or you may repeat the first part and think of your day-to-day schedule very carefully.
In conclusion, I would like to say thank you to all technical inventions, which made everyday life much easier, then we think about it. Today, our goal is to manage our time in the best way we know using given possibilities.