Today finding work life balance in this changing world is becoming more and more complex.
For example, 94 percent of service professionals in the U.S. spend over 50 hours working per week, while many of these people work on the weekends. Forty-eight percent of Americans consider themselves to be workaholics, but 72% of people consider work-life balance when job-searching.
Office full of overwhelmed individuals!
With the rising stressors coming in every direction, Fox news, CNN, MSNBC, social media, social and political unrest, race issues, financial and family challenges. Life over the last 6 years has been in a state of constant change. You have been in a constant state of flux, finding your new normal. To find out you need to change again. In all of the shifts and changes you are going through; you are also fluctuating through the experience of grief and loss. Yes, grief and loss go beyond the circumstance of death, it also happens when there is a loss of ideals/hope/joy. However, in all fairness it also a new beginning in the field of all possibilities (should you be open to allowing the perspective).
Think about this; we begin building and forging our direction in life prior to the full development of the mind. Consider this, you were encouraged to choose a direction in life at the end of high school, by the age of 18 for most. Whether the military, straight into the work force, or college. Then in the mid to late twenties 50 percent of us get married. Research states, 50% of first marriages happen when a woman is 25 and the male 27 years of age. It is not until your late twenties does the prefrontal lobe/prefrontal cortex is fully formed. This is where the healthy high-level thinking takes place. This is the executive functioning of the brain. Where the healthiest choices and decisions, for you, are processed and evaluated.
Therefore, prior to your brain being fully formed, at the point your just in your right mind, prior to you functioning fully in your rational mind you make choices and decisions that can affect your entire life. How in life can you find work-life balance when the foundation is established on week footing?
