Majicman Notes

1. The changing nature of work. Technological changes and the shift to more remote and flexible working has left many of us feeling as though we are ‘always on’ and not in control of our time.
2. Aim for harmony rather than work/life balance. It’s standard to hear advice about ensuring you have a good work/life balance, but a better approach is more holistic, ensuring your basic psychological needs are met somewhere, somehow across your different life domains.
3. Understand your basic psychological needs. The six main psychological needs are captured by the DRAMMA model, which stands for detachment, relaxation, autonomy, mastery, meaning, and affiliation.
4. Reflect on how well you are currently addressing your needs. A free and quick online test can give you a snapshot. What’s important for wellbeing is to satisfy all your needs rather than just some of them.
5. Perform an audit of your time. To get a more complete picture of how your current routines and roles in life are meeting or failing your needs, it is worth drilling down into how you spend your time.
6. Find more time for detachment. Once you have a clear picture of which needs you’re currently neglecting, you can begin to address them. Detachment is all about switching off physically and mentally from demanding activities and concerns.
7. Learn to relax. It is only after achieving detachment that you can truly relax, which involves doing activities that place little physical or mental demand on you.
8. Cultivate your sense of autonomy. Even babies are happier when they have a sense of control. You can foster your autonomy by taking more deliberate control over how you spend your time.
9. Find more mastery and meaning. It’s worth spending some time reflecting on what matters to you in life, and then look for ways to live in line with your values – either through work or in your personal life, for instance through volunteering, taking on pleasant challenges or learning something new.
10. Don’t forget affiliation. This is about your sense of connection to others. A powerful way to satisfy this need is to perform acts of kindness for others.

Jessica de Bloom & Merly Kosenkranius 

https://psyche.co/guides/why-you-should-forget-work-life-balance-in-crafting-a-good-life#