FREELANCING
for your NEEDS
4. Create success on your own terms
One of the biggest obstacles to work/life balance is in your head. Yes, it’s the belief that you should be doing this or that: should be working more on this project on the weekends, should be going to your friend’s social event even though you’re slammed, should be making X amount in salary because your friends do. Set reasonable expectations for yourself, establish your own set of values, and don’t measure them against anyone else’s. And remember, there’s no such thing as the perfect work/life balance for everybody.
5. Be OK with unbalance
You’re not going to have a perfectly balanced life all the time. Not even our freelance “experts” do. It’s a part of life as well to have unbalance sometimes. The important thing is knowing how to cope with unbalance and get back on track – and, of course, not giving yourself the added stress of thinking you should be balanced all the time or that other people have it all figured out. Relaxing and setting reasonable expectations will work better in the long run than exact schedules and hyper-defensiveness around your personal time.
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