Episode #34: Managing the Tension Between Work and Home: Why you Risk Failure Attempting a 50/50 Balance or Work-Life Integration
Managing the Tension Between Work and Home: Why you Risk Failure Attempting a 50/50 Balance or Work-Life Integration
Introduction to Episode:
Is there anyone who is not trying to manage the tension between WORK and HOME?
Do you feel the tension between focusing on your work and paying attention to what’s happening at home?
We spend most of our waking time at work rather than home! This tension between the two is NOT going away!
We highly value both aspects of our lives, that’s why the tension can seem so daunting or challenging
In today’s podcast we discuss the Work and Home Polarity. This is a key polarity especially given the significant struggles with burnout that healthcare leaders and clinicians are experiencing today. As a leader if you want to make a difference and enjoy life this is an essential polarity to manage.
Who you are is impacted by both work and home. You don’t walk out the door and leave it all behind, you carry your experiences in both environments with you.
Do you often feel like you are being forced to make a choice? To choose between work and home?
Maybe you feel the stress of trying to get to a 50/50 balance between work and home. Or you try work-life integration and try to collapse them into one entity to manage it better.
The Work and Home is a polarity. It’s not an either/or choice. A 50/50 balance and work-life integration won’t work. To manage it well you leverage the tension and energy between these two values.
Listen as we talk about what this WORK and HOME polarity looks like and how to leverage it.
Go here to download the Work and Home Polarity Map® and Reflection Worksheet.
Episode Summary Points:
· This is a critical polarity for every person’s well-being
· It’s a both/and choice
· The two values do not integrate into one- this is not about work life integration
· Recognize your preference pole
· What it looks like when you over focus on work or home
· Positive outcomes of focusing on home
· Negative consequences of over focusing on work
· Making conscious choices
· Potential action steps to gain or maintain positive outcomes of both work and home
· Vigilant monitoring of current state
Key Points:
· It’s not an either/or choice
· Both are equally important
· Dynamic balance -conscious choices
· Engage others to help you monitor
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