Balance between work and personal life: why it is important to spend more time with the family

Achieving a better work-life balance means you can spend more time with your family. You could also say that spending more time with your family will improve your work-life balance.

When you are too busy with work and rushing from place to place, you realize that an important area of ​​your life that is often neglected is keeping in touch and connecting with your family.

Why is it important to spend time with your family?

• you share genes
• noticing family resemblances in appearance and personality
• you share a common story

Share the fascination of discovering your roots and exploring your family history:

You share looks and ways of being. Look at what you have in common and consider whether this is due to your genes or environment.

You can discover things about yourself: You may notice that what you irritate or admire about various family members may reflect something you can discover about yourself.

family rituals

You will have absorbed the ways of doing things so much during your childhood that these seem to be ‘the way to do something’. As an adult, you always have the option to do things differently, especially when you discover that other families do things differently.

family transitions

Families tend to come together at times of transition: typically birth, marriage, and death. These are opportunities for families to reconnect with each other and with extended families as well.

Challenges of connecting with your family

You may not get along with them and may not understand each other’s world.

Listen more and try to better understand where they come from. Imagine being in their shoes and looking at yourself from their point of view.

You can get irritated with them.

Be assertive and say ‘when you do that, I feel…’ instead of ‘You make me sick…!’

You can open old feelings

Because of your shared history, it’s easy to revisit old arguments and disagreements that perhaps started because you are/were jealous of them or they are/were jealous of you. Imagine seeing the two of you through the eyes of an observer and see how doing so can change your perception of what happened and also what you need to do to make things better between you.

What can you do to improve your relationship with your family?

Communicate more effectively: listen more than talk.

Accept differences: You may share a family but parts of your worlds are different.

Take a look at what they have in common and consider whether this is due to their genes or environment. You can discover things about yourself.

You may notice that what irritates or admires you about various family members may reflect something you can discover about yourself.

Connecting with your family is an important part of your work-life balance.