After the trials and tribulations and even, in some cases, downright disruption caused in no small part by the effects of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic back in early 2020, the amount of stress and worry placed upon the proverbial shoulders of business professionals is now greater than ever before.

So, with this in mind, whether you are a manager, department head, or senior executive of a company, you have come to the right place because here, for your information and, of course, reading pleasure, is how to strike the perfect work to life balance for business professionals.

1. Your Own Health is More Important Than Anything Else

Self-care and self-care rituals are the most important way of settling and easing your mind, especially during times of great upheaval or change, either in your professional working life or indeed in your personal life as well.

After work, it is important that you spend time looking after yourself, both in a physical sense as well as being sure to take care of your own emotional health as well. There is a myriad of ways to focus your time and attention and, most importantly, make time to focus, on your emotional and physical health, including the following:

• Always take care of your skin before you go to sleep with creams and moisturizer
• Create meaningful and positive quotes and affirmations and keep them on your person
• Practice beginner’s guides to meditation exercises
• Talk things over with a friend who is nothing to do with the business
• Eat healthy and easy to prepare meals
• Go for solo walks in nature, even for just twenty minutes a day
• Indulge in creative pursuits, such as photography, dancing, writing, and painting

2. Create a Written Schedule

Sometimes, especially for busy business managers, it can be exceptionally hard to keep all the proverbial plates spinning, and one way to counteract the potential feeling of becoming overwhelmed with your roles and responsibilities is to create a written schedule.

It is logical to assume that important meetings and other business events are stored either on your online computer at work or else in the calendar section of your smartphone, but in actual fact, it can help clear and focus your mind if you write things down physically with a pen and paper.

3. Avoid Unnecessary Travelling for Business

Obviously, if your job role involves traveling to a range of different locations, for example, if you are the district manager of a pubs and restaurant chain and are required to visit each establishment on a regular basis, there is ca certain amount of unavoidable travelling involved in your choice of career.

However, if you only work in one location, or else only a few spaces which are relatively close to one another, you should start to utilize the plethora of exceedingly reliable and effective online video software programs and tools to conduct meetings and interviews this way, instead of face-to-face.

Whether you usually drive to appointments and meetings or else take public transport, either way, traveling makes a person tired and not only that, takes up a lot of time throughout your working week.

4. Further Your Education

As a business manager, regardless of industry, part and parcel of the role involves the nurturing and developing of both individual members of the workforce as well as the team as a whole. It can sometimes be understandably easy to forget to advance your own education in the field.

There is a wide plethora of fabulous benefits to furthering your own education, for example, pursuing a masters in business management, especially if you can take some time out from the practical side of your current role to devote to quiet and individual independent study

5.  Accept Your Weaknesses

Much is often written about finding your own personal and professional strengths and celebrating them, whilst conversely identifying your personal and professional weaknesses and improving them.

However, in the real world of business, where a working day is usually exceedingly hectic and fraught, sometimes the situation calls for you to readily accept what you cannot do well and leave that particular project or task to someone who is much more experienced it.

On a larger scale, this is why outsourcing one or more core business processes is becoming ever-increasingly popular, and there are a huge number of tangible benefits involved.

Such benefits include the following:

• You and your company will hugely benefit from the unprecedented access to industry experts and professionals who are all highly trained in the field in which you have chosen to outsource
• Things are achieved much quicker than they would be if you were handling the matter internally, as the reputable company you have outsourced to only has that particular area to focus on
• Outsourcing affords you and other senior department heads the opportunity to focus on other areas of your business that need your attention and expertise
• Some of the risks associated with the roles involved in that particular department will become a shared responsibility

Other Key Ways to Improve Your Work/Life Balance

Aside from the tips and techniques to improve your work to life ratio and balance discussed in detail above, there are also a multitude of other things to try, including the following:

• Always ensure that you take a proper lunch break and eat!
• Start your day with a pre-planned morning routine that is unrelated to work
• Ensure that your bedroom is a now-work area and never check your emails or send work-related messages inside that room
• If you do spend some time working from your own home, it is important to have a separate study or at least a separate desk which is away from the living room and spaces where you relax and spend time with family
• Work on a remote working schedule that has a definitive end and starts time
• Always ensure that, even on especially busy and more hectic working days, you take time to engage in some form of physical exercise