Work Life Balance of Entrepreneurs

Work Life Balance

Every business need too much work to become independent in some way from everyday direct intervention from entrepreneurs. Work-life balance is a subject that many entrepreneurs struggle with. We spend too much from our time on planning, generating ideas, marketing, selling, research and developing, business finances… But, where are we here? What’s our compensation for this efforts? We have our life before and after business startup. We leave with our family. We have our greatest treasure – our family and especially our children.

One of the frequently asked questions that come to the mind almost to each entrepreneur is about work life balance. They ask themselves this:

How to balance life and work?
How to balance work and home life?
How can be achieved work life balance?
How to balance work and personal life?

What is Work Life Balance

When we talk about work life balance we mean of balancing our work life with our personal life. What is more important work or family, business or family…? It is very hard to answer.

In the most simplest form, work life balance is managing work and non-work aspect or business and non-business aspect of your entrepreneurial life. However, you work in order to make a better living for you and your family. If I must define something about work life balancing, I will tell this:

Work life balance is the concept that implements managing business and non-business life to achieve optimal working hours that can enable for me and my family to have beautiful non-business life.

Sometimes there is a wrong concept between entrepreneurs who tell that they must to work more if they want to earn more. In the post titled as More Working Hours Doesn’t Mean More Work Done I presented four important factors that have influence on the productivity. If more working hours is doesn’t equal to more work done, then more working hours is doesn’t equal also to more entrepreneurial earnings.

Managing Work Life Balance

Managing work life balance is something that can eliminate stress and improve overall life of an entrepreneur. This means that you as an entrepreneur must manage your time, plan your activities, understand your priorities, know what satisfy you…

Plan your daily, weekly, monthly and annual business and non business activities. Your plan must be based on your business and personal goals.
Control your promises and achievement of everything that you plan about business and personal life.
Organize your business and personal activities. If you are not organized entrepreneur you can’t make solid balance between them.
Motivate yourself, your family and your employees to do the work that each of you must do.

Work Life Balance Tips

Separate your overall time for work and time for you and your family.
Create a list of top priorities.
Do not bother yourself with low priority items.
Use timer or alarm clock that will remind you to stop working for today.
Use the same planner for work and non-work activities. Let’s left side be for working activities and right-side for non-working activities.
Make a schedule for next week. You can answer these 10 questions that you should ask yourself before the start of the next week.
Delegate everything that can be done from others.
Promise only what you can deliver to family and to your clients/customers.
Clearly define what is expected from you for your company and for your family.
Start listening to your body.