Maintaining A Work/Work Balance

My goal is to have many more work/life balance articles on the site. As we continue to be the World's most overworked country, it is important to constantly stop and make sure we are at least attempting a balanced lifestyle.

However, today I ran across an interesting article, not on work/life balance, but on work/work balance. D. Keith Robinson has a post about maintaining your work/work balance. Work/work balance is equally as difficult as work/life balance, due to the pressures of some tasks in your job interfering with the excitement and interest in other tasks for your job.

Here are a few tips to maintain work/work balance:

• Recognize that both sides (the "head" and "hands" as some people call them) are important...
• Get a partner or two...
• Focus on one thing at a time...
• Have "pet" projects. Personal projects allow you to experiment, "do real work" and hone your skills without the stress of your real job...
• Learn something new. Sometimes your work/work balance can be thrown out of whack simply because your tired of what you're doing...
• Take advantage of down time. This goes double for you worker bees...

I encourage you to read the full article to get some greater insight into having a positive work/work balance.

- Curtis H.