Keeping your professional and personal life separate

Rajashree Das

(ruchadas98@gmail.com)

There's a popular tagline: "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" is certainly familiar to you. And while that may be a wink to a potentially wild weekend, it also touches on an essential concept - the capacity to divide two universes. Now consider how your personal and professional lives relate to that same idea.

You'll be happy after you figure out a healthy strategy to keep work and personal life apart.

When you establish a healthy boundary between your personal and professional lives, it stays that way. If you establish some limits with the office, you'll be more content in your free time. By eliminating any distractions, you'll also position yourself to trace success at work.

Keeping personal and professional lives apart

Many obstacles that you inflict on yourself are avoided when you keep your job and personal life separate.

Imagine someone being crushed under the word "job."

The beautiful thing about establishing a little distance is that it benefits both parties equally. Has your job in any way taken over your personal life? You have a lot of company if you're eagerly nodding your head. Out of 1,000 people surveyed about workplace burnout, 83% responded that it had a detrimental impact on their personal relationships. Perhaps your employment occupies too much mental space, preventing you from fully recharging. Or perhaps you wake up at 2 in the morning to the hum of work emails. Whenever work contaminates, whatever the reason, it can hurt productivity, damage morale, and increase turnover.

The benefits of separating your personal and work lives

Still, be yourself. It could seem a little difficult to separate the profession from personal life in a smartphone era when everyone is always linked. Leading a double life is not necessary to establish a healthy separation. Simply know when to use each aspect of yourself. Take a vehicle, for instance. It is still the same car whether it is in first gear, reverse, or neutral. Consider your personal and professional lives to be one and the same. You remain the same. You're simply changing gears and applying the appropriate gear for each circumstance. Because utilizing the incorrect equipment at the wrong moment can have catastrophic consequences.

Your personal and professional lives will always overlap to some extent. Therefore, exercise prudence when attempting to keep your personal and professional lives distinct.

"Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge."~ Carl Jung

This adage captures everything. It is simple and doesn't need much thought or reasoning to judge. Our brains are designed to automatically judge other people's actions so that we can go through the world without using a lot of time or effort trying to understand everything we encounter.

Understanding is more difficult since it calls for careful thought, persistence, compassion, and an open mind. As a result, anytime a person's personal life is pleasant and carefree, in contrast to the professional image they carry, it begins to affect other people.

"Be kind. For everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about."~ Ian MacLaren

People who struggle with anxiety often find strategies to divert their attention from their triggers so they can start appreciating the better things in life. People's judgments make their lives difficult. One kind of human morality is to live and let live.