This week is National Work Life week.
We’ve all got busy lives and with the cost of living rising, the pressure is on for everyone to work harder and longer to make ends meet. But achieving a healthy work-life balance is important, too – because without it, we risk feeling resentful and even burning out.
Although achieving that balance can be difficult; especially if you’re a shift worker, it’s by no means impossible – and the first step is to change our view of balance as being like a see-saw, piled with work at one end, and leisure time at the other.
“Work-life balance is unachievable on the best of days, so I like to talk about working towards a work-life blend instead” says Andrea Woodside, Retail Trust’s lead wellbeing trainer. “A blend is more flexible and means you can adapt to what each day brings.”
Here are our top five tips for working out whether you need a better blend and how to overcome some of the most common hurdles that could stand in your way.
📢 Know the warning signs
Feeling resentful? Take action and find the balance you need.
📆 Are you shifts are still working?
Does the pattern you had two years ago work for you now?
🔊 Talk about your needs
Consider an honest conversation when things aren’t working.
⌚Dedicate time to your wellbeing
Diarising wellbeing time will make you more likely to stick to it.
❓Ask for help and ditch the non-essentials
When you think you are the only one who can do it, overwhelm could be on the way.
Read on here:
go.retailtrust.org.uk/better…
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