Many people struggle to balance family life, work, and spiritual matters. We are often faced with persistent stress and anxiety when we try to live a balanced life.
Nevertheless, if we remain steadfast and work hard, we can live a fulfilling life.
Our work performance will improve, we will have more time to grow our family, and we will move closer to God if we live a balanced life.
This article will explore the main benefits of achieving a balanced life.
Improved Relationships With Family and Friends
Your family is your most important possession. It must be your priority and primary investment.
Therefore, you should dedicate a substantial amount of time to improving your relationships with your spouse and children. Also, it would be best if you had regular positive contact with your siblings, parents, and other relatives.
If something gets in the way, you should push it aside. Being busy at work is not an excuse to ignore critical family relationships.
Mend Family Strain
Sometimes, family members can clash with one another. The result is that family relationships are strained. Perhaps you have found yourself in this situation, but you can’t do anything because you are focusing on your career.
This is a critical mistake, and you should take immediate action to repair any damaged relationships with your family members.
For instance, you can use friends or other family members to organize a mediation process. Your Pastor can also intervene. That is why balancing work and family time is critical.
Just like your family, friends can bring joy into your life and even alleviate depression. Hanging out with the same group every week can enhance your social life. For instance, you can go out for a picnic with your friends or start a book club.
The camaraderie is key to having a better relationship with Jesus Christ and living a long life.
Increased Work Productivity
If you have a happy family life, your productivity at work will increase. You may have noticed that employers spend a lot of money to enhance employee productivity.
Many of these employers have realized that motivation starts with a balanced life. Employees with a balanced lifestyle tend to be more engaged and loyal.
They are also more focused on delivering the best results. Therefore, a balanced life will increase your work prospects and advance your career.
Employee Productivity
A recent study by Gallup shows that only 34 percent of American workers are focused on their work.
The same research blamed the general corporate approach for this poor performance. According to the researchers, most companies use material rewards and gifts to improve employee productivity.
Unfortunately, they overlook the role played by stress and anxiety in employee productivity. While pleasure incentives can provide short-term benefits, these incentives are incompatible with long-term employee morale.
Employer’s Role
If you are an employer, you should take a strong interest in your employees’ relationships with their family members, especially these days.
Additionally, as a Christian employer, you are in a position to lead people closer to God by the way you treat your employees. These activities will eventually bear fruit for your organization as your employees become more engaged and motivated.
Similarly, employees with a high religious understanding tend to be more transparent and honest.
Improved Physical Health
Depression, stress, and anxiety are the primary causes of many physical ailments. Physicians have proposed several pre-emptive measures, such as regular exercise and living a healthy lifestyle.
A healthy lifestyle can only become a reality if you are living a balanced life. In that light, balancing your family, work, and spiritual life will improve your general body health.
Exhaustion and stress are rampant among professionals who are constantly working at their desks.
As you try to sleep better and exercise more (in any form, such as biking, taking brisk walks, even going up and down the stairs in your home/office, using them as a makeshift elliptical machine), you must also find time for spiritual matters and family bonding.
Unless you retreat to a conducive family setting, you will probably contract lifestyle-related diseases.
Better Mental Health
Balancing your family, work, and spiritual life also has a positive impact on your mental health. A balanced mindset is devoid of negative thoughts and feelings.
Pressure and constant stress reduce the functionality of your brain. This affects your creativity, decision-making ability, and critical thinking process.
In most cases, it’s a balanced lifestyle that can save you from this predicament. When you attain a balanced lifestyle, you create thinking opportunities for your subconscious mind.
Consequently, innovative and ground-breaking ideas come to the fore. Optimum mental health will also lead to positive emotions.
Instances of bad feelings will reduce, and you will easily overcome low moments. Moreover, you can readily spread positive energy to family members, work colleagues, and Christian brethren.
Reduced Workplace Tension
A study reveals that stress is the fifth most common killer in the US. Chronic stress has also been linked to the six leading causes of death worldwide.
At the same time, 25 percent of American employees suffer from workplace stress. Many of these employees think that they don’t have a way out. Fortunately, the solution is simple: balance family, work, and spiritual life.
Life is all about making choices. When you choose to do more work than you can handle, you are inviting disaster. You won’t meet deadlines at work, and the quality of your work will be in doubt.
Therefore, you may have to put in more hours to meet your deadlines. If you are unable to improve your productivity, you will be fired or demoted.
On the other hand, spending more time with your family can help reduce workplace tension. You will be honest about your working capacity, and you won’t bite off more than you can chew.
Bottom Line
Increasing your income is a good thing. However, it shouldn’t happen at the expense of your family and relationship with Jesus Christ.
Work-life balance is the most secure source of sustainable happiness; pursue it.
