It’s Important to Find and Maintain Work Life Balance

Hello my fellow Hivians and my beloved PIZZA family. It’s been an interesting journey since I’ve joined Hive and my experience has been overwhelmingly positive. I’ve met a lot of really good people and the community here is one of the best I’ve ever seen. I’ve also seen various examples of Hivians looking out into the real world and trying to make it a better place too.

What WOO is trying to do for the professional wrestling community is a great example; build a profitable game that also partners with wrestlers to give them some additional income. That’s needed because most professional wrestlers have not been given their due and didn’t have any long term options; The Rock is the exception not the norm. The WOO team still has work to do but I’m really happy with what they achieved so far. Also, what they have done for Perry Saturn is pretty heart warming. (Full discloser, I do have WOO game assets)

However, the point of this post isn’t just to talk about WOO or even HIVE PIZZA but to reflect on the importance of work life balance.

In the more recent past, I have struggled with how to raise a family, routinely blog, work full time, and play Splinterlands. I don’t have an easy answer for how to achieve all these things simultaneously. If I overcommit to one thing, I find myself getting stretched thin in handling my other responsibilities.

I think acknowledging I don’t have a good work life balance right now is the first step. Communicating to my spouse I’m stressed and overworked has been helpful as well. Just talking about it seems to help a lot even though this takes up time I could be using to do the dishes or make meals for the family.

To my friends and family on Hive, I recommend you all do your best to maintain a a healthy work life balance; this way when you are on Hive you can be your best self and help make the community a positive place. It’s also important for you to realize different people have different stress thresholds. What is balance for you may not be balance for someone else or vice versa.

Another tip is to find wins in your week. What I mean by that is find time to do things you are proud of that make you feel good about yourself. Your life has deep value and having activities that give your life meaning is very important.

A final piece of advice, if you get frustrated by something, before reacting try to understand what is really bothering you. When work is stressful, it’s important to know that is the cause of your angst and let your spouse or family know how they can help you. It could be needing someone to listen to you vent or creating a list of a tasks you need help with. If you don’t know what you can be helped with, still try talking about it with a family or friend. Just talking can go a long way towards better mental health.

On a final note. My life has been pretty busy as of late. My life is much more busy than I’ve ever been used to. But I am the happiest I’ve ever been. I’ve been able to find more efficiencies in my life making it easier to do the things I want to do. As an example, I wrote this blog on my phone using Hivekeychain; this is a game changer. It’s hard to get on the computer with a screaming kid in the background but if I can function on Hive primarily with my phone it’s much easier. I want to give a big shoutout to those who made this possible, it has made my quality of life significantly better.

I encourage you all to strive for better work life balance. It will make your life easier and more fulfilling. I wish you all good health and good fortune.

Here’s to keeping Hive beautiful! Cheers!

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