Today we are talking all about achieving work-life balance and how holistic organizing can help you do it.
<h1>What is Work-Life Balance</h1>
I believe a more accurate term is work-life integration because I am not sure you ever truly achieve balance.
<h1>What is Holistic Organizing</h1>
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Importance of work life balance

how to balance work and life

how to balance work and family

work and family

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understanding what holistic organizing is is gonna help you so much in your organizational journey many times when I'm working with clients I find that you are trying to segment your life into all these different buckets now it is understood that you are one person right that wears many different hats you have your work self you have your personal self you have your you are a wife you're a mother you may go to church or be involved in some other organization whatever the things are that you do in your life those are different areas or as I like to say buckets of your life and a lot of times I find that women try to organize those separately they try to keep all of their business stuff separated over here and then they try to keep all of their personal family stuff separated over here and all the organizational stuff separated over here well the problem with that is you are still one person and you can only be one place at one time and so it's important for you to set up a system so that you truly know where it is you're supposed to be what it is you're supposed to be doing at any given time I hear all the time where people have double-booked themselves they forgotten about one expectation or one thing that the commitment that they've made and they double committed themselves and they didn't know which one should go first here's the deal keep one calendar and just have different categories within that calendar I tend to color-code my calendar so I know what is personal and what is business right I know that hey I've got a full week at work you know this week and so I don't want to commit to any personal things I don't want to commit to anything for another organization I don't want to commit to anything at church during this week because I already know I'm gonna be swamped I also will know to let my family know that it's a busy week that hey this is a really crazy week for me so I need your help in relieving some other stuff from me it helps you better anticipate and plan for the things that are coming up in your week in your day now if you are married here is a trick that I encourage you to incorporate into your life do you have a shared family calendar that is important and I am Pro electronic calendars versus paper calendars and there are a number of reasons why I will talk about those in a separate video but do you have a family calendar and again assuming it's electronic does your spouse know about this electronic calendar do the other family members who are able to, are they able to access the calendar do they know about it can they add to it this is important for you to know and important for you to have and the reason it is is because you're planning stuff for your family well your spouse may be planning stuff for your family or for himself where he is not going to be available or your children may have some event at school that they're needing to have one of the adults take them to if you don't know when all these fall and you're planning all of your stuff separately it is inevitable that you are going to double booked yourself it is inevitable that you are going to forget about some things so what I recommend you do is have one calendar and you just color code or put some type of coding system in place so that you know when something falls into a different category again recommend the color coding definitely or you can have separate calendars that layer into one is also a possibility but I prefer to just have one calendar and make it easy okay so if you have questions about this process definitely comment below and let me know let's have that conversation if you are interested in knowing when I post additional content please make sure that you subscribe to this channel and in the meantime I want you to definitely stay happy and stay organized