- Many of us strive to improve work-life balance for good reason.
A recent review indicated that a better work–life balance fosters not only job satisfaction, job performance, and organizational commitment but also life and family satisfaction. The work–life balance also reduces stress-related outcomes such as psychological distress, emotional exhaustion, anxiety, and depression.
Work–Life Balance: Weighing the Importance of Work–Family and Work–Health Balance – PMC
- Maintaining work-life balance is challenging without a meaningful counterbalance to work.
- Simply trying to work less often fails, as boredom or habit may draw us back to work.
Many people fail to change their behavior because they focus on what they are not going to do rather than on actions they will take instead.
How to Forget About Work When You’re Not Working
- Work is a significant source of meaning for many, making it difficult to disconnect from it.
- Even when we stop working, we might spend our time thinking—rumination—about work or engaging in mindless activities like binge-watching or doom-scrolling, which doesn’t sustainably improve our well-being.
- Developing a meaningful alternative to work helps us work less and use our free time more mindfully, enhancing our well-being.
- Hobbies can provide a meaningful alternative to work.
The results of this study […] showcas hobbies as a significant contributing factor to work-life balance.
“Exploring Hobbies as a Critical Component of Work-Life Balance: Percep” by Maigon Campbell-Nowlin
- Relationships can also serve as a meaningful alternative to work and can be enriched by hobbies.
- Developing a meaningful alternative to work also prepares us for life after retirement or potential job redundancy due to AI.
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