And that my friend is a one way express ticket to burn out.
So let's just trash,
both of those because they suck and we hate them better approach.
And the one that allows you to actually succeed in every area of your life is
hello. And welcome back to my channel,
where I help you slay your career and cultivate the successful life you deserve.
Let's cut straight to the chase. Whoever said you couldn't have it all
was lying to you,
or they just hadn't figured it out for themselves as a successful working mom.
One of the top questions that I got is how do you have it all?
I'm about to tell you how to achieve work life balance.
But first I need to ask something of you. If you don't mind,
can you please just quickly smash that like button. It really helps my channel.
So go ahead, top it now. Thank you so much. And let's get into it.
The first thing we need to do.
Is we need to talk about all of those buzzwords that are buzzing around us
all the time. First, it was work life balance,
where you were supposed to have buckets and they were the same
size and they were, you know, balanced. Then it was integration where it was,
I guess, just one big bucket that you were dealing with all the time,
which quite frankly is a nightmare,
because what that big bucket really means is you are dealing with all of the
things all of the time.
It's all you you're on and firing on all cylinders all the time.
And that my friend is a one way express ticket to burnout,
without getting anything done along the way to boot. So let's just trash,
both of those because they suck and we hate them, the better approach.
And the one that allows you to actually succeed in every area of your life is
having work life boundaries.
It's like a shining light from beyond. Look,
your work is never going to decrease.
It is going to demand more and more and more from you at the expense of your
friends, your family, and in particular, your me time.
And I don't know about you, but I need my me time.
It's when I binge watch YouTube boundaries are where we acknowledged that we
have these different areas of our life and that each should be given time.
And that time should be protected. I know when you're wondering now, Jennifer,
how do I set these worklife boundaries that you speak of? Well,
let me walk you through that step by step.
The first step to creating work life boundaries is to know what you really want,
what you really, really want.
So ask yourself right in town right now.
What do you really want? Obviously, you kind of have.
It all if you want, literally all of the things,
but chances are, you don't actually want all of the things
when you really pay attention.
There's probably only a few things that you do really, really want,
and that are actually really important to you.
Let's figure out what those things are.
This is something that I deep dive in with my clients in my career acceleration
program, but let's get you on that path right now. Let me ask you this.
If you had four buckets, what would they be? Work,
family health and fitness hobbies, bocce ball.
These buckets are the areas of your life that are really important to you.
And remember I said four, don't go try sneaking in extra buckets.
You might only have three, but you shouldn't have five.
Is what I'm saying. If you're working through this right now,
you can actually pause the video.
And take a couple of minutes to think about it.
Once you know what those buckets are,
it's time for us to move into the next step.
And this is the step that's really going to change your life.
It's time for us to start setting our priorities.
Now I'm a huge fan of a good old fashioned Eisenhower matrix. And in fact,
I have an entire video that I'll link to down below if you want to
dig into that,
but this is going to be a slightly different approach when it comes to
work life boundaries and knowing what to put into those buckets that are the
different facets of our life.
It really comes down into these four different things, concentrate,
procrastinate, delegate, and eliminate. Now,
obviously I'm making this video that is going to be focused on your career,
but you can do this for all of the different buckets.
What I would recommend you doing is take time to list all of your major
activities.
And the things that you do that belong in each of those buckets and figure out
where those
activities fit into those four different categorizations when it comes to your
work bucket, which probably should be a bucket.
If you're here and trying to advance your career,
you really need to map that to your unique, awesome misquote shit. Your UAQ.
If you don't. know your UAQ yet, I highly recommend signing up to my workshop,
glow up your career,
where we will be figuring out what your UAQ is and we'll even go out what you
should really be focusing on in order to accelerate your career.
When we look at those different activities and each of those buckets,
it is going to be the concentrate and the procrastinate that we keep,
everything else can kind of go, or we'll just do if we have time.
And for those things that are really important that we want to work on right
away, it is time for.
Us to move into our next step, which is going to be making the actual time.
This can look a whole bunch of different ways.
I mentioned this in one of my recent videos,
one of the best ways that we can establish work life boundaries is to have a
start by time and an end by time associated with our Workday,
not to say that those are going to be impervious to change,
but for the most part, this is going to help you define when you start
and when you actually stop working,
the next phase is to actually take those activities and
the tasks in your work bucket that you need to concentrate on,
or that you can procrastinate and start
allocating when you're going to work on them.
I'm a huge fan of time blocking if you're interested in a video on it,
let me know in the comments because I would just nerd out doing it quite
honestly,
but you're not just going to be thinking about work because setting that
boundary is good,
but there are other aspects of your life that you want to make sure that you're
feeling fulfilled on. That's the whole point of this.
So for the different buckets, go through those activities and for
what is concentrate and procrastinate set some time or allocate
when you're going to do those things like is exercising really important to you?
Put it on the schedule, want to make sure you call your mom every day.
Book an appointment, make a checklist for every day of the week,
no matter what works for you,
just make sure that you're very aware of the things that are really
important to you,
that you need to do on a regular basis in order to be fulfilled and
successful in every area of your life. And that brings us into the next step,
which is maintaining our work life boundaries. And honestly,
I wish I can summarize this into just
90 seconds and you would be on your Merry way,
but it takes a little bit more than that. If you haven't already,
I highly recommend subscribing to my channel because my next few
videos are going to be about helping you maintain those boundaries,
saying no at work and focusing on the right things.
I would love to hear from you. What work-life boundary
have you sat in the process of this video? Let me know.
In the comments down below
work-life boundaries are especially difficult to maintain when you do work from
home, especially if you're working from home in a smaller space,
head over to this video right
now for some really practical tips and strategies to help you maintain your
boundaries between your work and your life. If this video was helpful,
make sure and give it a thumbs up, share with a friend who could use it.
And of course, consider subscribing as always. Thank you so much for watching.
I'll see you in the next video.
Bye for now.