Balancing career success and life harmony?
If we’re all honest about the world now, post COVID, it seems to be more intense.
Everything seems to be more stressful, more pressured. A lot of people that I coach are overwhelmed by their situation at work. Working from home adds more pressures to them and their family. And it seems that more and more I’m coaching people on managing the the pressure and the stress in their lives. It’s kind of got out of control.
So what we do is just we build in strategy as coping mechanisms and different mindsets on how we handle that pressure.
I think now more than ever, because of accessibility at home, laptops, phones, etc., people just don’t know that level of when to switch off. Work life balance is something I really promote in my methodology and we’ve got to find that balance in our lives and it can overtake and before you know it, it’s normalized and that’s what you’re doing.
And it really isn’t healthy, not just for you, but for your work, your colleagues, etc. So it’s a really big thing that I concentrate on now at something that I’d impress that we think about in our work.
There are many things that we could talk about in our coaching relationship.
One big one At the moment I’m finding, post-COVID is the how overwhelming people’s jobs are now. Now, I know we were all busy before COVID, but it seems that we’ve ramped up a gear since and now people are working from home.
There’s accessibility that we didn’t have before, our laptops and our phones, etc. I’m finding more and more of my coaching relationships are based around handling that pressure and that stress at work. We don’t know when to say no. We don’t know when to stop and it’s really affecting people’s wellbeing. Work life balance, which is hugely important and it’s become normalized that this is how we work now. It’s unsustainable. We’re all overwhelmed and we need to sit back and think about how we change that. So what we do, which is put in strategies of able to cope now to think about things differently, but importantly when to switch off.
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