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Cornerstone Three: Work Life Balance

As a Entrepreneur or CEO of any sized company, the biggest challenge is to balance the demand on your time between work and life. You know you need to balance your life or face serious consequences, but do you find you just cannot balance it to your liking? Do you struggle to find the time necessary to achieve all that needs to get done? Do you have a healthy fear of failing, and so life has to be put on hold while you create endless protective tasks to execute?

Often CEOs only seek help when they feel desperate, or when they are forced to take action. Does that sound familiar? The feeling of burn out often prompts some to conclude they just want to get out of the business all together, but the alternative is equally distasteful, returning to employment under another company banner.

A healthy work life balance is achievable, and we have helped many CEO work on not in their business. You have to believe is is possible based on the many who have achieved it before you, but it often requires accountability, and the implementation of a few simple immutable truths.

You are not the only person that can do what you do.
You need to delegate but you have not found the right way to do it.
You can hire qualified and awesome people to help you, but you need to create a work environment that is not all about you.

Despite the advice offered above, CEOs often find it difficult to implement successful change. Have you tried to delegate projects, only to find the project back on your desk and now an urgent task?

You can achieve a work life balance, and start implementing our successful process today. Simply book your 15 minute call with a pivot vision coach and begin your journey. You can and must obtain a healthy and profitable work life balance, so take advantage of this opportunity while it is available.

Thinking of not booking a call? Ask yourself when will it be the right time?

The answer may surprise you.

Simple changes To Improve Your Work Life Balance?

To improve your own work-life balance, you might consider adopting specific proven practices, such as scheduling breaks throughout the day or delegating some of your tasks to others. In addition, a weekly schedule should be set up with realistic goals; allocate specific hours towards tasks such as errands or chores rather than trying to cram them into two or three days off over the weekend. Here are some obvious but often neglected suggestions:

Employee Support

If you dump a project on someone, you will likely not gain the support you need. Instead think of delegating a small part first, then have that person report back to you. If you can save an hour of your time here and there, it adds up and also gives your employees a sense of purpose and contribution.

Effective Delegation

Make sure you are delegating things that you do not need to do. Often if you set a value on your worth to the company, Your value is often far in excess of the cost of giving that silly task to a low level employee. Use the 4 quadrant method, things you must keep, things you want to keep, things you do not need to keep and things you should not keep.

Avoid Distractions

Set aside concentration time every day, one hour or two that are not to be disturbed. No phone calls, no emails and no employee emergencies. Often by this simple time management enforcement, you can get that stubborn issue off your desk.

Communication

Set aside specific times for employees to communicate with you about their needs. Employees can be time leeches, not out of a desire to be destructive, but they simply prefer to resolve the issues on their time, not yours. Who is working for who here? Set specific times throughout the week they can rely on your concentrated effort, and then most importantly require they use that time.

For a more advanced challenge here is a highly effective way to gain significant time, so you can go home early --->

Learn to say "NO."

Learning to say no can be especially difficult for dedicated professionals, many of whom are used to ‘yes’ as their go-to answer. However, mastering the art of ‘no’ is vital to setting healthy boundaries and taking charge of your life and career.

To practice, take an inventory of all the demands on your time from day to day and learn to state them clearly in order of priority. The Eisenhower Matrix is useful for this purpose; if everything seems to fall into the ‘Urgent-Important’ box, try this intelligent hack! Ultimately, remember that by saying ‘no’ at times, you can free up valuable energy and resources to attend to those items which matter most.

What we learned is that there are times and needs that must be done in person, but most issues can be conveniently handled from the comfort of your home or office and at your best time, rather than the time allotted with the limitations of travel and accommodation.