3 Ways to Find Work-Life Balance in the New Normal

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Tasks by Reclaim.ai

This is why it's so important to build flexibility into your schedule, particularly when it comes to balancing your routines and tasks across work and life. Instead of filling up your entire schedule with "busy" blocks, which inevitably get interrupted and force you down the rabbit hole of endlessly tinkering with your calendar, use tools that let you establish dynamic policies for your to-dos and habits, which can automatically adjust and reconfigure your schedule as your week fluctuates between priorities.

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Slack Status Sync by Reclaim.ai

Similarly, you can be just as intentional about your Slack status. By letting other people know when you're busy for different kinds of events -- and even setting "Do Not Disturb" for the moments where you really need to be heads-down in a meeting or focused work session -- you can cut off a ton of notification noise and proactively communicate your availability (or lack thereof). Again, doing this manually is challenging to maintain, so an easy way to convey this context is to use tools that sync your schedule with Slack.

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Habits by Reclaim.ai

This is why it's so important to build flexibility into your schedule, particularly when it comes to balancing your routines and tasks across work and life. Instead of filling up your entire schedule with "busy" blocks, which inevitably get interrupted and force you down the rabbit hole of endlessly tinkering with your calendar, use tools that let you establish dynamic policies for your to-dos and habits, which can automatically adjust and reconfigure your schedule as your week fluctuates between priorities.

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LifeWork Calendar

Another way to ensure you're achieving flexibility and harmony across work and life is to sync your personal and work schedules. Too often, work tramples over our personal commitments because our coworkers simply can't see those times as blocked. Calendaring platforms don't make this an easy problem to solve, and so you end up in situations where you might be -- for example -- en route to a doctor's appointment, only to see a calendar invite pop up for a sales call that starts in 5 minutes. By syncing your personal calendar to your work calendar, you can block time for your life without sacrificing your privacy.

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Buffer Time by Reclaim

An even simpler thing you can do is add buffer time around your calendar events to decompress after meetings and leave room for transition between activities. This allows you to keep flexibility in your schedule so that you're not constantly hurrying from event to event without a moment to travel, take a breather, and prep for the next event. Executive coach Dina Smith recommends adding a 20% buffer to your tasks to account for "unexpected obstacles, delays, and interruptions.".

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