Be More Productive
Keep Your Work/Life Balance in Check
6
Tips for Keepin
g Your
Work/Life Bal
ance in Check
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OUTSOURCE
Work/Life Balance
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• Try to wake
up
at the same time
each
day and follow
the same process
– make
your coffee, pack
your lunch, skim
your
favorite news
source, go to the
gym –
whatever it is,
do it the same
way
every day.
• Once you get
• Figure out which
4
to the office, have
a
routine there
too. Get Balance
Tips for Keeping Your spend
Work/Life
a cup of tea and in Check
the first 15 minutes
reviewing
emails, for example
, and go to lunch
at
the same time
every day.
Work/life balance can be a difficult feat, it’s
demanding – especially for a paralegal.
TIP # 5
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tasks make the
best
use of your limited
time and focus
your
efforts there. Then
hire help for the
other tasks. Use
freelance workers
to
help with paper
filing, investigative
work,
or other busywo
rk.
• Do the same
thing at home:
Can you
outsource house
cleaning? Yard
work?
Grocery shoppin
g? At home, it
might not
cost you a dime
because it might
be a
matter of simply
delegating rather
than
outsourcing.
At work, you’re constantly on the go. You keep track of multiple
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• Not
hearings
to taking
case your
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to scheduling and more. And at home?
You’re
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only lowers
your
product
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on
the go
Yet finding balance between
your
ivity. there
Even if too.
• Big changes
your vacation
don’t happen
is
at home
overnight. It’s
work life staying
and your
personal
want to excel
for a week life
not as if in
(for a is critical. Yes, you 6
you’re going to
“staycation”), or
commit to
just don’t
your career, but
if you
take care of yourself, your productivity
two
—
extra days for
a
4-day weeken
d, it’s worth
and promote-ability
— will
it to decrease.
get some
downtime and
rejuvenate.
• And rememb
er: You boss wants
you to
take vacation
time so you can
come back
with renewed
energy and product
ivity.
work/life balance
on Monday and
achieve it on Tuesday
(or Wednesday
or
Thursday or…).
So, start small.
• Go through
the
tips above and
choose
To help you find that elusive work/life balance,consider these six tips: tip to your life for a
one. Apply that
month. Then the
next month, choose
another, and so
on.
These tips will
eventually beco
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t, and you’ll find
balance you so
that work/life
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SCHEDULE
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ely need!
• Sure, doing your work from the comfort
• If you don’t schedule the downtime, it
TIP # 1
1
2
of your own
home and without the many
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want to make
distractions
of the
the legal
proces
s office might sound
ne.
smart. But your home needs to be your
ation,
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sanctuary, a place to rejuvenate
and
regroup.
won’t happen, and if you don’t have the
downtime, you’ll end up burned out.
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• If you really need a change of scenery
during the work day, move to a coffee
shop or the library to continue working
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— but once it’s quittin’ time, leave that
work where it belongs: at work!
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