Balance is something you actively create ⚖️.

Creating a space that considers both your professional 👔 and personal life can be challenging, but it can get easier once you make the effort to put structures 🎯 in place and plan ahead.

Plus, the benefits ➕ outweigh the initial drag of getting it done.

We solemnly swear it 🤙🏿. New Comma honour.

1. Accept that you can't do it all sometimes 🤷🏿‍♀️🤷🏿‍♀️🤷🏿‍♀️

The greatest businesses of today require the brain power of hundreds, if not thousands of people 🧑🏾👩🏿👩🏽🧑🏽👩🏿🧑🏿,

The greatest of teachers 👩‍🏫  have hundreds of people behind their learning,

So, why subject yourself to the heavy and impossible duty of trying to do it all alone 🏋🏿‍♀️?

You cannot do it all alone.

Being realistic about how much is feasible for you and in what period of time will help you to set manageable workloads.

No matter how great you are or how mighty you might be, remember that you are one person ☝🏿.

1. Identify your priorities and make time for them ✅✅✅

There’s no way you can just jump into tasks without having a clear idea 💡 of what needs doing now and what can be done at a later date.

Getting your priorities straight first ☝🏿 is always a good basis for mapping out your tasks on a calendar.

It relieves you of the stress 😖 that comes with a constantly mounting workload.

Do what you can now, and the things that come later will sure enough have their time to be dealt with ⚖️.

1. Create structure by defining your daily start and stop times 📏 📐

Structure makes everything clear-cut 💎 and easier to deal with.

With many of us still spending a huge chunk of our time ⏰ at home, it's still important to put things in place to prevent us from working long hours that drain us 😣.

Outline what you want your daily structure to look like, considering breaks, rests and hearty meals to keep you going 😋 .

1. Live a little, make after-work plans😜😜😜

You can’t live for work, no matter how fulfilling or enjoyable you contend that it might be 🙄.

Life requires equilibrium ♎️ and of the ways to have that is connecting with the fundamentals of life. This includes being in nature or tending to connections with those closest to us.

Touch some grass, put some time aside to go for a walk ☀️, meet with friends, or whatever floats your boat.

It can’t be all work and no play if you really want to take care of yourself 🤫.

1. Embrace flexibility 🖖🏿🖖🏿🖖🏿

Everything will not always go to plan.

Take a moment to let that land… 😶

But that’s not a reason to worry or panic. Often when things don't go the way we envisioned and plans change, it is an opportunity for things to go better than we imagined or a chance to make use of a different opportunity altogether 😌😌😌.

Anyway, if life followed a script 📝 wouldn’t that be boring? Exactly!

Being open to alternative plans is never a waste of time! 😜

1. Be transparent with your communication

No one deserves to have their time wasted ❌

due to poor planning or communication.

You might say that we know very little about you, but we know enough to speculate that you want a life of easeeee 😌.

Well, a life of ease derives from getting all the little things right, including communication 🗣.

Transparency in communication is the portal to shared understanding and harmonious working relationships 😊.

After that everything is as simple as A B C 🤌🏿.

As a creative, getting that work-life balance ⚖️ balance can be almost as difficult as perfecting your craft! 😱

It can take a long time to hone a schedule that you’re happy with and that fulfils you entirely — but that’s more than okay 👌🏿 , it’s yours to play around with for some time and personalise so that it suits all your needs and some of your big wants 🤭.

All we ask down at New Comma is that you don’t neglect the need for that much-needed balance,— the outcome would be too costly 😮‍💨 . You deserve a routine that makes you feel happy to do your work but, also excited to live life outside it.

With these tips, we look forward to you hitting the hammer on the head and living the kind of life you only ever dreamed 💤 to be possible.

You’re only inches away from it! 👀

For more hard-hitting tips and posts tailored specifically for our Creative Geniuses be sure to head over to the New Comma page on Instagram @new.comma 🫶🏿🫶🏾🫶🏽

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