Balance it all!

Even though my first time in this community was not encouraging at all, I cannot still take away my eyes off the topics shared here; they are all amazing. So to the prompt, how do we balance it all?

Balancing social life, work life, and personal life, means setting equal priorities for them, and when the word priority is used, then there is no equality.

Social life, work life, and personal life are three entirely different things that affect us in different ways at different degrees. So, the priorities given to them should be different; rather, we can manage and communicate with them by understanding how they affect our lives. So, the work balancing will not work here, because you give priorities to one over the other as they affect your life.

I have seen homes that are broken because of too much priority given to work; the same thing has happened when too much priority is given to social life, likewise when given to personal life. The one I believe needs to be carefully managed is your social life; it's a life that can easily distract you when you get too involved in your social life, which can destroy your personal and professional life.

So, I tell people that when you take a step forward, know when and how to take two steps backward. What this implies to me is that I'm a sociable person, and once I'm in, I'm in. But there are people I am responsible for, and every time I remember that, I try not to get distracted and reduce my social excess.

It's easy to control your professional addiction; yes, if there are issues as a result of giving too much priority to your work, all you need to do is set some boundaries between your work and your life. Like office work, stays strictly at work and and doesn't come home. As busy as I could be at work, I won't bring any home because that time at home is for my family alone. Work is work and home is home. It's easy to do.

Likewise, my personal life can easily be managed depending on how and what surrounds me react to that my personal life, but for me like I said, socialization gives pleasure, and I get easily distracted and consumed when I do things that give me pleasure, so, to manage it, my sense of responsibility stays active, I set my priorities right, by balancing the three and not allowing one to affect the other.

So, one needs to communicate within oneself to know how professional life, social life, and personal life can affect one's life and how to give priorities to each one of them. We just need to balance it all👌

This prompt is in response to the #digitallifestyle weekly prompt.

The images are mine.