How to Have Work-Life Balance

In this video, clinical psychologist Dr. Jenny Yip discusses how work-life balance may be an outdated term that misrepresents the reciprocal relationship between our work life and home life. We spend so much time at work and with coworkers—they're bound to overlap. Discover why this term may be misleading, and what to do instead.

00:00 Intro
00:15 The reality of Work Life Balance
00:50 What to call 'work life balance' instead
01:33 How to use 'Life Awareness'
03:00 The real problem (it's not 'Work Life Balance')
04:30 How to create boundaries for healthy Life Awareness
08:50 What to do if work asks too much of you
11:15 The 4 ways to maintain Life Awareness

#selfcare #selfawareness #worklifebalance #workfromhome #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealth #mentalhealthmatters

[bmay]

Seriously?? "Realistic expectations" "prioritization" and "better time management"?? Yet no discussion of workers rights.. Americans work the longest hours for the lowest pay in the industrialized world. We all have responsibilities and need protection from being exploited by employers. Protections Including: Paid time off. Paid sick leave. Parental leave. Healthcare not tied to employment. Regular schedules. Incomes that allow us to live with dignity.

[DaileyDoseOfJoseph]

I always feel like this type of topic is for "the succesful adult employee" -- I've only ever worked jobs where there's no need for me beyond my scheduled time. I might get a call about scheduling errors or something, or get asked to trade with people, or get told the office is closed tomorrow, but even at my current job, my supervisor said to me, verbatim, "This company sees you as less than human." so they just treat you like trash for 40 hours a week, then I spend the rest of my week emotionally recovering so I can go do it all again. I'm just getting paid to do something I don't want to do, which is the only reason I do it. No part of me feels imbalanced, I feel trapped.

[moonhunter]

Why can it not be 50-50? I certainly have managed to do that. You can't have a "career" where you have an employer who owns your time, but THAT'S the actual problem. Not the term "balance".

[vanessalacoursiere]

No, to accept poor quality work dynamics, undermines the great labour movements that have provided increased safety pritection policies.

[idonthaveahandle]

What people mean by "'work life balance" is the future of work and the cutting back of menial and unnecessary tasks. It's cutting the extra time in the office where the person is not accomplishing anything. It's about automating the processes. It's giving people more free time to spend with their family, with themselves, their friends, or cleaning the house. It's allowing the affordability of one person working and the other staying at home and raising children and/or keeping up with the house. It's allowing a full time worker to have hobbies. Its a 32 hour work week with the same pay as a 40 hour work week. It''s finding meaning, taking pride in, and owning our work. It's developing healthy bonds between coworkers, managers, etc. It's about setting and allowing healthy boundaries. It's letting the introverts be introverts. I could go on.

[FSCHW]

Managers dont manage people, they don’t want to have a conversation about not being available 24x7. In 2013 I got a promotion after our jobs were reviewed and benchmarked. In 2015 they did the same review and benchmarking and we were demoted. When I asked my manager about it his answer was “Do you think any of this is real?”

[ToothedOut]

Work life balance doesn't mean 50/50. And boundaries exist differently in different type of jobs. The advise she's giving is perhaps too general and is standard advise you'd get from every other child youtuber out there making videos about school/studying and trying to "balance that out" with life. This advise about work balance / boundaries is much better off taken or approached on a very individual basis honestly. You're more like to take advise from a peer working in a similar role experiencing similar challenges who's managed to have a life outside of work than just this general advise given here that can be googled and is just her opinion honestly.

[Kyleology]

This woman hates the term "work life balance".

[a_aysh]

She speaks as if some workers don’t get exploited.
Stick to OCD Dr. Yip and leave the work psychology topic for those who understand that not everyone has the luxury to create boundaries and have that conversation due to potential retaliation/getting fired.

[pedrocols]

We have "evolved" in a society that there people that either do everything while others don't do anything at all.

[imjustjules]

This is a good video that showcases the social model of disability… capitalism doesn’t allow for a work / life balance for so many people. Boundaries are really important too but it sucks that not everyone is safe to set them at work or with family.

[tiararoxeanne]

At my previous workplaces, my bosses and co-workers never contacted me or one-another for work-related matters AT THE WEEKENDS, unless they were super-urgent matters. When I resented even those very rare weekend work-related messages, I know I'd been burnt-out😔

[AdamGbl]

Know your worth, and set a value per hour for what you think your time is worth then work on developing a skill that is higher paying per hour or that you can develop into that. Eventually, look for a position with your high pay/hour skill that allows you to work when you want and free up more time. When you can get your time back, you can start really doing the things that really serve you, bring you joy, and make memories (or use that extra time to grow your skill and worth even higher).
Its a process, and it starts with mental health. We've got to resolve the mental issues holding us back so we can get there. The key point: you can always get money but you cant ever get your time back. Time is the most valuable asset and the value that you place on your time will be a huge factor for your goals and progress in life. Of course, having your priorities organized and properly managed definitely ties into this.

[veziculorile]

Once you turn on, you tune into the system, and once you see how the system turns and where its cogs turn, one realizes a balance of life and work can’t exist in a system that is designed to restrict it, and then—you drop out! You stop caring about contributing to uncle Sam’s 9-5 episode of late night reality tv. 🎉

[contactvp]

When you get replaced at work for having boundaries be sure to email her to say “thanks for the Patronizing advice that got me fired.”

[dianeashton]

How about those who are their own boss? My (former) husband's business had him vs. he had his own business.

[pureglow.koreanskincare]

Hhaha as my understanding, work life balance is like what she said. Not sure where she is got that idea, when she hear "balance" its mean 50/50.

[beseez]

She has a very strange affect.
Had to stop watching the video.

Will seek if there's is a transcription instead.

Work life balance is imo, not 50/50, but rather knowing 8 hours a day at work, transportation time, and all the rest is NOT WORK income related.

To survive financially in the US, most often 2 adults in one place are contributing. The market is out of control, with us plebs having very little control in trying to make a living wage allowing us to also enjoy life.

[NoName-lqkt]

Hard to take this seriously when it's coming from someone with an obvious Asiatic cultural bias