How do you keep work-life balance?

It's much easier to manage when you love what you do. I'd optimize for that first. (yes I don't have kids, yadda yadda)

Block your time for a particular task and don't get up to do anything else unless it is done. Focus is the key to anything!

I started to work and travel from different countries. Inspirations from diverse landscapes, nature, animals and people are helping me to meditate and nano-manage my work-life balance. I'm focussing myself and my teams on a culture of async-first, documentation-first and remote-only. Calendar autonomy is one of our core values. People should be able to decide every hour anew where to invest their time and what's most important for the second, the health of their children, family, and friends, their mental state or work? By nano-balancing this in a self-responsible manner, productivity and happiness profit at the same time. The key is to find a way of life full of inspiration and balance this with the creation of a most valuable and just as inspiring product.

Sembly is made for that — allows to take control about online meetings and increase WFH productivity 🙌

I walk with my dog in the park. Speak to my wife and spend some time with my parents. It helps me maintain balance in life.

Delineating between work and life is key. Do a walk in the morning before work, or go the gym, do something. In the evening, do something similar — play music even (that’s what i like to do). I’ve found getting access to a coworking space and forcing myself to go twice a week helps as well re-establish balance.

I WFH since 2007. Working out is crucial. Add an extra cardio session without thinking to change the mood or cut a non-ideal flow.

I (personally) did not find a major separation between work/life feasible, especially when working remotely. For me, it's been a lot more valuable to invest in working with my team to establish asynchronous communication & decision methods so that each of our work/life balances can be respected and maintained. We still have meetings, but where possible we try to move things forward via chat and crisp documentation. How does this lead to balance with personal life? I can use that time I'd otherwise be dealing with work stuff to play with my kid and dog, decompress, etc., or focus on something work-related for a while, and I can get to stuff I need to catch up on when I'm ready to.

Our team blocks out time to do the things they need to do outside of work on their calendars - be it getting some exercise or taking a break. We also encourage teams that have large projects to take a day (or days) off after the project has finished!