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finding the right balance LizMcKeon asks, do you need to achieve a better work / life balance?
Running your own salon or Spa can consume an incredible amount of time and energy. To avoid feeling burnt out, set yourself strict work / life boundaries. Retaining a personal life outside of your businessmay seemlike an impossible goal at times, but with the right strategies in place, you can successfully achieve amanageable work life balance,most of the time…
Here aremy top tips to achieving the perfect work life balance for you:
Draw a line between work and home. Get into the habit of separating the two – when you are at work, you are at work, when you are at home, you are at home. Don't be in one place and worrying or feeling guilty about not being in the other. If you bring work home or have a home office, exercise self-discipline and stop working when you close the office door.
Always stop formeals. On averagemost salon owners work aminimumof 64 hours per week. Taking care of yourself and establishing healthy eating habits is vital in order to have the energy required. Set regular meal times, keeping these times sacrosanct and try to switch off your phone.
Make a practice of 'switching off'. Statistics show that 30%of us check our phones before 7.30am!You need to build in uninterrupted thinking time into your day, away from technology and the expectation of immediate response. Our brains need respite in order to continue to produce innovative ideas.
Make time for a holiday. It is difficult to leave your salon for long periods of time, particularly in the early days.Take long weekends instead - every so often add a Friday andMonday to your weekend, giving you a break to look forward to and a chance to recharge your batteries.
Outsource wherever you
can.At times and for certain tasks, relinquishing control is the right decision
tomake.Think about what you could delegate and to whom. For example, daily paperwork and general book-keeping could be outsourced to take care of your admin.
Set
priorities.To feelmore balanced in life and business, set priorities and create lists. Put themost important tasks on the top of the list and the least important towards the bottom. Learn to stop 'sweating the small stuff' and let go of the less important things, so you can enjoymore leisure time.
Manage your
time.There are 24 hours in the day, ideally eight for work, eight for leisure and eight for rest!Managing your work life balance starts withmanaging your time. Create a schedule and adhere to your 'to do' list.Avoid andmanage unnecessary interruptions.
Saying ‘no’makes you grow! Learn the power of saying no because sometimes we forget how important it is to say 'no' when we are busy. It is not possible to be available to everybody around you all the time. If you are respectful to your time limitations, then staff and clients will be respectful also.
Assume responsibility – that is the solution. If you have a problemor difficulty to overcome, you are responsible to fix it. Likewise, if you are unhappy, it is your responsibility to get to the root of your unhappiness andmake somemuch needed changes. If you don't like your current situation, then change it. Stopmaking excuses and be responsible.
Manage your
environment.The way we use mobile phones and emails significantly influence both our living and salon environment - and specifically external pressures and demands on
us.These very positive communication technologies have become, formany people, habits and systems which almost enslave and constrain, rather than liberate and
enable.They canmake us constantly available, so don't let these external factorsmanage you. For example, a simple change tomake with emails is to open and deal with themat set times, not whenever one pops into your inbox.
Manage people’s expectations and demands on you. Other people’s demands on our emotional and time resources are a significant aspect of life balance. If you do notmanage these demands they will leave you with no resource for yourself, your family, your other interests in life, and the change you want tomake in order to pursue them.
Develop your own rules! Life balance is a personal thing. Itmust bewhatworks for you – notwhat someone else decides.Work / life balance and personal happiness do not necessarily depend on earningmoremoney or expanding your salon business.Other factors can have amuch bigger impact on ourwell-
being.Age and ‘life-stage’particularly affect whatmakes us happy and balanced, as does our personality,which stems fromour genetic type, up-bringing and life experiences.Work / life balance is therefore changing and different. There is no singlemodel that is right for everyone, and no single approach is right for anyone for theirwhole life.
LizMcKeon is a Business Coach,Trainer and Guest Speaker, specialising in the beauty industry.
T: 00353 1 892 8007
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