🕹️ Stop trading life for work today (find balance in the long term)

There's no one-size-fits-all solution. Understanding your work style, without being too rigid, will make things bearable without making sacrifices along the way

Companies like Google take pride in their rule that 20% of the time is spent on personal projects.

Other companies like Basecamp take pride in their healthy culture of limiting to 40 hours per week and no more.

And startups will take pride in working long hours to achieve great things.

It’s not like one is right and another is wrong. But trying to define a rule will always create edge cases where the rule doesn’t fit the situation.

Companies like Amazon have adopted the term work-life harmony. However, most people will think this is just a way for an employer to justify expecting overtime

Regardless of what the employer experts say, the concept of work-life harmony is something you can use for your own good.

✏️ 4 approaches to work

1️⃣ The swiss watch

You know your start and end hour, your break, and you deviate little from this.

This is a healthy approach to ensure work doesn’t creep into your life, but it may deprioritize w…