How Can Work And Personal Life Impact Well-Being

One of the precious quotes that I will never forget was a line from Oprah Winfrey about work:

“Love and passion for work results in a masterpiece”.

This means if you love what you are doing then great things are ahead.

Equal life and personal happiness do not depend on your high earnings. There are certain things that have a bigger impact in each personal life or in a well-being.

Our age and the achievements we want to attain are some considerations we want to point out in order for us to be happy and have a balanced life.  It also includes our characters, which is the root from our genetic type, and background plus our entire life experience. The hunt for happiness is very difficult because of some factors including the fact that our personal well-being is commonly neglected or given low priority in work or training. In a working environment, life balance and personal satisfaction are likely being ignored, and not often explored or naming as an option that is worth pursuing.

Life is so valuable for a lot of people. However, life balance at work and happiness in life can actually be managed and attained if only we know the mechanism including being honest to ourselves. It will also be helpful if we know the causes of our own happiness as a well-being.

People might look for some life balance that will equate into life. For others, life balance both work and personal life is far from complex.

Here are some factors that will tell you how work and personal life affects your well being.

1. Build downtime into your schedule

Planning should be done weekly so make it a point that you will also include your family and friends and some activities that can motivate you as well. We all have some priorities in life but we must consider valuing our loved ones more than anything else. If you are going to consider that both are meaningful to both your work and personal life, you should manage your time and with it you can create happiness.

2. Drop Activities that waste your time and energy

Some people waste their time in nonsense things or mingle with some colleagues that will not help you to grow. You must be able to arrive to your work early and do things needed as soon as possible. For example, checking your social media site time to time is a waste of time. We often get tempted into doing silly things at work that these habits are making us less efficient without realizing it.

3.  Get motivated

Once you learn how to love and be passionate on your work it will create an attitude that will lead to a good future. Having enthusiasm over your role will generate positive outcome. Thinking your family, dreams and your goals will definitely affect your well being as a happy individual. Self actualization will achieve at most if we are motivated to do our errands with passion and love.

Ramon Net usually conducts group therapy in Downtown Los Angeles during weekends.  He knows it is more effective for people to learn in groups.

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