HSFD Work-Life Balance

Additional links to help each of the 8 concepts/tools

1 - Recognise the importance of being able to sustain your performance and your wellbeing.

Are You Too Stressed to Be Productive? Or Not Stressed Enough?

2 - Give yourself permission to rest!

The importance of rest and recovery

The Benefits Of Resting And How To Unplug In A Busy World

A link to executive coaching article: be careful of your mental strength!

3 - The mechanism which enables this adaptation is the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS).

A link to managing ANS for your work life balance

4 - On a daily basis this management can be enhanced with the simple concept of the cortisol cup: or your stress container.

How chronic stress changes the brain – and what you can do to reverse the damage

5 - The quality of this ‘reset’ can be deepened with breathing techniques: in particular diaphragmatic breathing.

Effectiveness of diaphragmatic breathing for reducing physiological and psychological stress in adults: a quantitative systematic review

Diaphragmatic breathing

6 - Your most important work-life balance tool is your sleep.

7 - In addition to sleep quality, there are other essential recovery tools which help keep work-life balance feeling good. These include daily/weekly practices such as creating social time with friends and more strategic ones such as booking in holidays and having movement/exercise programmes.

8 - For managers it is important to manage the whole person and not just the work person.

Great Mentors Focus on the Whole Person, Not Just Their Career

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