{"id":2384,"date":"2023-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/westbrook\/5-tips-for-achieving-work-life-balance\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T11:10:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T01:10:52","slug":"5-tips-for-achieving-work-life-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/westbrook\/5-tips-for-achieving-work-life-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"5 TIPS FOR ACHIEVING WORK \/ LIFE BALANCE."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that many of us are working from home regularly, it&#8217;s becoming harder to establish boundaries. However, it&#8217;s\u00a0 more important than ever that we learn to switch off from work&#8230; and this is the hard part!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Here are some tips to help you achieve the ultimate work \/ life balance.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>A FIXED SCHEDULE.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>A fixed schedule will clearly identify work time from personal time. Sticking to regular office hours while working from home will really help to make sure you have a few hours to relax and unwind at the end of the day.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/westbrook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/weekly20schedule.jpg\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 133px;\" \/>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>YOUR WORK SPACE.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Physically stepping away from your work space is a great way to switch from work mode to home mode. This is way easier to do when you have a defined work room or space &#8211; or, if space is tight, simply put your laptop out of sight for the night.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/westbrook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Work20space20home.jpg\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 133px;\" \/>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>TURN OFF NOTIFICATIONS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>There are so many ways we can be contacted. But\u00a0 by switching off or pausing work related apps this will help your brain turn off too.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>CHANGE YOUR CLOTHES.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>A great way to signal to yourself that you are done for work for the day. Time to pop on the pyjamas!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>DO SOME EXERCISE.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>When you are finished for the day, it&#8217;s a great time to get outside and get active. A great way to clear the mind! It can be a as simple as taking a 30min walk around the neighbourhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/westbrook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Exercise.jpg\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 133px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that many of us are working from home regularly, it&#8217;s becoming harder to establish boundaries. However, it&#8217;s\u00a0 more important&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-local-area"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/westbrook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/westbrook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/westbrook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/westbrook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/westbrook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2384"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/westbrook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4158,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/westbrook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions\/4158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/westbrook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/westbrook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/westbrook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/westbrook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}