Maintaining a Work-Life Balance

When you run a business, there’s no such thing as a day off. There are always clients and vendors to deal with, employees to manage, and all kinds of miscellaneous fires to put out. So how can you keep your business from consuming your entire life? Be clear about forming boundaries. Professor QuickBooks gives you some tips on how best to create a proper balance between work and life. • Determine your priorities. Write down a list of the top priorities in your personal life, such as your children’s birthdays or an annual holiday with your friends. Going through this process will help you say ‘no’ to work when it really competes with your valued events in life. • Schedule out all of your time in advance. Calendars aren’t just for meetings: use them for scheduling blocks of personal time, too. Schedule time for business development, client projects and other work commitments, but reserve some time (such as a Friday afternoon) for personal appointments and ‘me time’. If you communicate your schedule to your team, there are no questions as to where you are and they continue their tasks without you in the picture. • Delegate and outsource tasks. You’ll have more time for family, friends, and personal hobbies if you spend less time working on lower-level tasks, so don’t be afraid to outsource. • Get out of the office for short breaks. Taking a bit of time out of the office for a walk around the block or to do a task like picking up the dry-cleaning gives you the opportunity to accomplish something, but also to come back to your desk refreshed and ready to face the rest of your day. • Set aside times to unplug. Your Blackberry or iPhone can be your best friend, but it’s also your family’s worst nightmare. In order to really be present with the people you care about, turn off your phone, and take the time to enjoy your family and friends when office hours are over. At QuickBooks, we understand how important your business is to you, but we also understand that life is not just about work. Ensuring your own work life balance by making time for the important things will make you better at what you do. In the words of Heather Schuck, author of The Working Mom Manifesto, “You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life”.

Sign up for our EasyBiz Newsletter

Stay up to date with the latest payroll & HR trends

Please fill out the form below to receive the trail demo link

Personal Information
Where a party receives any personal information (“PI”) related to the other party, the party who receives the PI, will comply with and have adequate measures in place to ensure that its employees, agents, subsidiaries and representatives comply with the provisions and obligations contained in the Protection of Personal Information Act, No. 4 of 2013. Any PI pertaining to one party which is required by the other party, will only be used by that other party for the purposes of this contract and will not be further processed or disclosed without the written consent of the latter and the recipient of that PI will take all reasonable precautions to preserve the integrity and prevent any corruption or loss, damage or destruction of the PI. If and when the contract is terminated, each party will, save to the extent that it is required to do otherwise by any applicable law, erase or cause to be erased, all PI and all copies of any part of the PI relating to the other party”.

Please fill out the form below to receive the trail demo link

Personal Information
Where a party receives any personal information (“PI”) related to the other party, the party who receives the PI, will comply with and have adequate measures in place to ensure that its employees, agents, subsidiaries and representatives comply with the provisions and obligations contained in the Protection of Personal Information Act, No. 4 of 2013. Any PI pertaining to one party which is required by the other party, will only be used by that other party for the purposes of this contract and will not be further processed or disclosed without the written consent of the latter and the recipient of that PI will take all reasonable precautions to preserve the integrity and prevent any corruption or loss, damage or destruction of the PI. If and when the contract is terminated, each party will, save to the extent that it is required to do otherwise by any applicable law, erase or cause to be erased, all PI and all copies of any part of the PI relating to the other party”.