Daily Prompt: 2024-10-24

How do you maintain a healthy work-life balance, especially during busy periods?

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Kevin McDonald @[email protected]

Please answer, I need to know how 😢

My drive and passion goes in waves. If I'm not "feeling it" I don't push myself too hard. The productivity will come.

Ryan Clough :scremcat: @[email protected]

@sudorandom I think you've sort of figured it out, then.

Good balance is about listening and agency. You get inputs from your body, from your spouse/friends/etc., from your coworkers/boss/etc. A good work-life balance is about being able to actually listen to all of these inputs and *choose* what you want to focus on when. There isn't some magic formula. Where you focus your time is probably going to fluctuate over time as you, your life, and your work change, and that's okay.

The hardest part is *feeling* okay to let go of some things in favor of focusing on others, and *feeling* like you're prioritizing in the right places based on the info you have. That's where the most of the tension and a lot of much harder self-acceptance work is.