#WorkLifeBalance

Quiet Vacationing Is the New Trend – Are You Doing It? 🏖️ “Quiet Vacationing” Is the New Trend – Are You Doing It? You’ve heard of quiet quitting. Now meet its 2026 cousin: Quiet vacationing 🫢 It means taking days off without officially requesting PTO. Your Slack is active. Your mouse jiggler is running. But you’re at a café, on a hike, or sleeping. 📊 Why it’s exploding: 60%+ of remote workers feel burned out PTO policies haven’t caught up to remote work Employee tracking software feels invasive → quiet vacation is a small rebellion ⚠️ But risks are real: Mouse trackers, keystroke monitors, even GPS on company laptops Can lead to warning → performance plan → termination 🤔 The big question: Is it wrong? Or is it survival when bosses deny legitimate time off? Read the full deep dive (link in bio) for real stories, ethics, and how to protect yourself if you try it. Tell me honestly: Have you ever quiet vacationed? 👇🍿

Balancing Fatherhood, Leadership, and Time Without Excuses

The ideal week integrates various life roles—father, husband, worker—into a harmonious balance rather than conflicting duties. It emphasizes servant leadership, intentionality over excuses, and living aligned with values. Each moment becomes meaningful, transforming responsibilities into opportunities, culminating in gratitude rather than exhaustion. True balance is a conscious choice.

Even God took a day off. 😇 Productivity grows when recovery is part of the plan. My recharge today = iced coffee + zero agenda. What is yours? Drop the emoji 👇 ☕ = coffee nap 📖 = read something fun 😴 = nap like it’s holy work

You are more than your work. 💼 Ambition is great, but don’t let it steal your peace, your health, or your presence.

Burn Your To-Do List, Not Yourself In this video, you will learn how to be productive without burning out by adding play to your day. Discover why juggling socks, dancing, and laughing fuels your energy and creativity.

Arbeit kann manchmal zur Grenzerfahrung werden, besonders für Mittelmanager, die häufig Überstunden leisten. 🤯 Warum passiert das und was sind die Auswirkungen? In unserem neuesten Artikel erfährst du mehr über die Herausforderungen und wie man damit umgehen kann. Lies jetzt: https://medium.com/@timespin/wenn-arbeit-zur-grenzerfahrung-wird-warum-mittelmanager-so-viele-%C3%BCberstunden-leisten-und-wie-b39e14394467

Over 80% of Middle East employees say they plan to watch the FIFA World Cup, even if it disrupts their sleep schedules. Despite the excitement, only a small fraction of companies have introduced official policies, leaving professionals to manage productivity and late-night viewing on their own during the tournament period.

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Your Work: Creative Flow as a Non-Negotiable Requirement Mindful Creativity prioritizes creative flow as the threshold condition for job satisfaction. When flow is absent, mental energy depletes; when present, it becomes a source of renewal. The coaching process treats flow not as a luxury but as a baseline need—akin to ergonomics for the mind. This reframes job searches: roles are evaluated not only by title or salary but by whether they allow uninterrupted ideation. Learn more → https://Mindful-creativity.com ALT

Burn Your To-Do List, Build a Joy Playlist! In this video, you will learn how to be productive without burning out by adding play to your day. Discover why juggling socks, dancing, and laughing fuels your energy and creativity.

Jun 03, 2026 Another day, another pagod. Pagpasok ko pa lang sa office… rekta timpla agad ng kape. I really wanted to be productive but my mind and body just wanted to shut down and rest forever. Nakakatawa yung nangyari kagabi. Habang may basketball game sa office… andun ako but I was totally out of it. I tried to play ML to keep myself occupied pero hindi ko namalayan na nakaka-idlip na pala ako habang nag-gegame. Imagine, naka-rank clash pa naman kami! Mind you, naka-tatlong rank game ako hahahah! Pero hindi talaga maayos yung paglalaro ko. May isang beses pa habang nagka-clash parang wala talaga akong gana maglaro… as in lutang na lutang. Tapos may nag-message pa sa akin na sobrang gigil, sabi… Si Hanabi na nga lang ginamit mo, di mo pa kayang laruin ng maayos. Mag-quit ka na lang maglaro, piste ka! Instead na magalit o matawa… binasa ko lang yung message at sinabi ko na lang sa sarili ko… Sorry, bawi na lang next time. Hahahaha! Akala mo siguro regular teammate mo ako pero random player lang naman ako na sobrang antok na. Sorry guys, my brain was literally at 1% battery. So eto pa, dahil sa antok, I was slouched on the chair like a total mess. Tapos nalaman ko na lang, pinag-uusapan na pala ako ng isang group ng employees… kesyo kawawa raw ako, pagod na pagod sa work or maybe they thought I was being forced to extend. hahahah….. Grabe, ang judgmental! Hahaha. It’s hilarious how they were debating the reason behind my exhaustion. Yes, the work is draining and I’ve been absorbing some negative energy but I was mostly just fighting for my life to stay awake. Sa mga nakakita sa akin kagabi, oo…. pagod ako but it was mostly just the sleepiness talking! Next time, gisingin niyo na lang ako instead of holding a board meeting about why I’m slouched over while playing ML. Hahahaha. More coffee, please… para hindi ako mag-shutdown sa harap ng mga tao mamaya. Gusto ko na matapos itong week na ito, masyado na akong quota na quota hahaha, energy drained na si ako.

Instead of Work/Life Balance Focus on Dharma

In my last blog I talked about how the mind-body divide, or in today’s terms, the focus on work-life balance seems to have broken career balance . And as soon as I hit publish on that blog, I could hear the questions coming. If I’m not supposed to focus on having work/life balance, then on what am I supposed to focus? The answer comes from yoga philosophy, namely the Bhagavad Gita. Krishna (in the guise of the charioteer) tells Arjuna, a warrior who is about to go to war against his relatives, about the concept of dharma. What is Dharma? Well, Dharma isn’t just the name of a hippy-like lead in a late 1990s/early 2000s sitcom. Okay, I admit, that reference was probably a bit old for some of you. But in all seriousness, dharma is a foundational concept in many Asian religions such as Buddhism and Hinduism. It translates into duty, cosmic order, or right way of living. Sounds deep and serious, doesn’t it? And also, what does this have to do with being an author. Let’s examine a couple of quotes. Considering your dharma, you should not waver. For a warrior, nothing is higher than a war against evil. - Lord Krishna In this quote, Krishna is telling Arjuna that considering his dharma, in other words, the fact that he’s a warrior, then there is no higher calling than to be in a righteous war. Or, to put it in simpler terms, there is no higher calling than to following your dharma (your duty or your purpose) and in doing so, you are living in the right way. This means if you’re an author AND your calling is to tell stories (i.e. you’re not doing it just for money or to sell your services or whatever, but that you truly need to write because it’s something you keep coming back to), then your highest calling is to write stories. Better is one’s own dharma, though imperfectly performed, than the dharma of another well performed. Performing the duty prescribed by one’s own nature, one incurs no sin. - Lord Krishna If you are acting according to your own nature, even if you do so imperfectly, then you are on the right course. In other words, stop stressing about whether you’re good enough or whether your work is perfect. If you’re doing the best you can with what you know to write your stories, then you are doing your dharma. There is the concept of balance. Writing 24/7 and neglecting everything else means you won’t be able to write. There is a need to find a balance between caring for yourself, writing, and taking care of everything else. I’ve also found that when you focus on your dharma, which would include all your purposes or all your duties, and do them as well as you can, then the balance will begin to come easier. I’ll talk about this in a future blog. Instead of trying to “balance” writing and life, because as we’ve discussed over these last two blogs, there is very little separation between them, When we focus on our purpose, our true nature, we no longer have to divide our life into pieces. Instead, we can move forward knowing that as long as we follow our inner compass, we are doing the right things.

Tips Every Busy Professional Should Follow for Better Work-Life Balance - Bizly Hubs

​ Life Coach Weisheit Nr. 3 : Die Spätschicht-Problematik (21:00 Uhr Feierabend) Zeitmanagement ist alles. Meine Assistentin nennt es ’ Spätschicht ’ – ich nenne es ’ unterlassene Hilfeleistung am Geflügel ’. Wer erst um 21:00 Uhr nach Hause kommt, muss damit rechnen, dass ich in der Zwischenzeit die Weltherrschaft (oder zumindest die Kontrolle über die Keksschublade) übernommen habe. 🦆🕰️ ​Wenn du arbeitest, während andere schlafen, solltest du wenigstens ein Geschenk für den Chef mitbringen. Nur so als Tipp für eure Karriere.

Born to swim. Forced to work.

The Most Common Error I See In Author Life Balance

I follow a lot of self-proclaimed author gurus and I’m noticing that a lot of them are pivoting away from faster writing and shorter times between releases and more toward trying to sell authors on creating a sustainable career and finding the elusive author life balance. After tell us to burn ourselves out in pursuit of the algorithm and in satisfying readers’ demands to binge our books, they’re now trying to tell us to go in the opposite direction. There’s just one problem with what they are teaching us. It’s wrong in one single, fundamental way. I’m not saying we shouldn’t look for sustainability in our writing careers or in working with our brains. I’m all about that! But what I’m saying is that the way they’re teaching it is wrong. Because they’re trying to teach you from the same tactics and the same methods that they used when they taught you to burn yourself out by churning out books. What they’re teaching is that there’s one thing, one magic switch, one magic trick or system, that once you find it, all your answers will be clear forever and ever. If we want to look at having a sustainable career and avoid burnout, that’s not the right answer nor is it one that’s going to lead us to the author nirvana that so many of us are seeking. The most common error isn’t the search for balance, not at all. The most common error is thinking that balance or a sustainable career is finding one single thing at one single point in time. That if you do this thing once, then you’ll have balance and sustainability and you’ll be golden. I’m afraid the path to avoiding burnout, the path to that sustainable author career isn’t like that. Author life balance comes not from one decision, but from countless small decisions each and every day. It isn’t a snapshot in time, but a tightrope walk that we take each and every day, back and forth across the wire. Something changes and the plates we’re jugging shift, then we have to shift with it, otherwise we’re just going to topple off the wire and pray there’s a net below. The trick, if you can even call it that, is being flexible enough that you can shift with the changes in this industry and in tune enough with your creative nervous system so you can manage the stress and difficulties those changes bring. It’s an ongoing process. It never ends, my friends. And yet, it’s just as important a part of being an author as putting words down on a screen or piece of paper is. In fact, I’d argue, it’s even more important because if you burn yourself out, it’s going to make putting those words down a hundred times more difficult. The one thing I’d love for you to do today is this: stop thinking of work-life balance as a single end point, but rather, the guardrails you keep on a winding path that is an adventure to explore. Trust me, the journey is worth it.

Back from vacation but mentally still at the beach? 😅 This funny and relatable work-life post captures the struggle of returning to work after finally relaxing. From overflowing inboxes to dreaming about booking another trip by lunchtime, this one is for everyone who has ever needed a vacation after their vacation.

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Reminder: Your body wasn’t designed to sit for 8+ hours. Try: ☀️ Morning walk ☕ Midday walk 🌙 Short evening reset I wrote a simple guide: 👉 Walking Breaks for Busy Professionals No gym. No equipment. Just movement. Read here → https://fitwithgreg.com/walking-breaks-for-busy-professionals/

Your Work: Creative Flow as a Non-Negotiable Requirement Mindful Creativity prioritizes creative flow as the threshold condition for job satisfaction. When flow is absent, mental energy depletes; when present, it becomes a source of renewal. The coaching process treats flow not as a luxury but as a baseline need—akin to ergonomics for the mind. This reframes job searches: roles are evaluated not only by title or salary but by whether they allow uninterrupted ideation. Learn more → https://Mindful-creativity.com ALT