Work-Life Balance
Ojelola Ojelabi
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How to keep a work-life balance, in a startup where you work 90+ hours a week?
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Bhavna Singh@bhav_singh
I have faced this same situation when I was on the voyage of my entrepreneurship, the solution which I have figured out and has resulted good for me, is to be away from my phone for the first two hours as I wake up and practice yoga and meditation for sometime. Believe me this has resulted wonders. @ojelola_ojelabi
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@ojelola_ojelabi @bhav_singh I think this is a great idea! Plan out time for yourself. Book it into your calendar because if you expect to have time left, you won't!
@ojelola_ojelabi @bhav_singh Yoga, medication, exercise does wonders to mental health. It must for healthy life and works great for me too.
@ojelola_ojelabi @bhav_singh For me is to avoid messages/calls check while doing other activity. It helps with my focus. In general, physical exercises really works, especially when I am full of stress. It sounds very simple decision but the difficulty is that I should do it in a regular basis.
I try to spend less time looking for work and cooperate only with good customers. https://skyworker.ai/ helps me with this
Cool service that saves time
In my experience, it's still doable to find time for yourself without sacrificing work-life balance, you just need to find the right productivity tools and apply tips that will work for you. I work a lot too and use TMetric to help me with time management and performance tracking - it's initially a time tracker but it determines my productivity peaks and this way I can plan time and workload more effectively.
90 hrs per week seems impossible. Are all of those hours productive? There are some studies going back to the 1920s indicating that productivity drops after 40hrs and I believe game development research shows that developers are likely to cause negative productivity (i.e. more bugs than useful features) if they work more than 50 hrs per week consistently.
I've gone down that path myself and have ended up burnt out and irritated at everyone. Working max 45 hours per week is better for me. The constraints force me to figure out how to delegate and prioritise.