My boyfriend and I have a long workday, so I try
to get all of my work done before he gets home so we have the evenings together.
But sometimes it is difficult because I am self-employed and always working.
I am getting better to take some days off once in a while in order
to have a good process.
Here in the startup phase the difference between work and leisure time is a bit fuzzy.
It can be hard when you are at a restaurant and a client calls
you have to pick up because it is money in the pocket.
Take stress symptoms seriously.
I think it is important to keep your path clean.
You have two lifes.
You have a private and a work life and you can afford to have a mess in one of them.
If both are messy you get stressed and if you feel stressed
make sure to straighten things out in one of them, so clean up your
private- or study life.
If work stresses me the first thing I do is to try and find out why
and sort it out myself.
If I realise that it is caused by something out of my control,
then I have to ask for help and here is it important with a good relation with your
colleagues and manager.
I don't feel like I stress that much in my work because you have the luxury to
pick and chose.
What you want and do not want to do.
Do not study when you are off.
I do not have my work mail on my phone
and I do not check it on the computer when I am off.
When I am off I take time off.
Remember to take brakes.
I have been very conscious of this in this last phase while doing my bachelors.
where you feel like there is nothing more important than this last assignment
you have been writing for 7 days straight full time
and then suddenly you have a day where nothing happens on the blank paper
then it is time to do something.
So I took a whole day off and told myself - no work today!
And then the next day I wrote 6 pages so it really gives you some peace of mind
to take a day off
and it makes you more effective when working.