Balancing Our Lives

Do you feel that your work life is blocking all the other parts of your life?

Work-life balance is not easy to be accomplished, but when it is, it fills you with calmness and mindfulness and makes you feel happy.



The feeling that your life is not in balance comes from a deeper level of your life where you reason everything you do.

There is a moment in everyone's life when we realize that there is something more about life. It isn’t simply what it seems. It’s not surface, it has to do with human beings, that have energy, feelings, and passion and there is a reason we are here, driving through life. In this moment we realize that we can’t just do things anymore, everything has to matter in some way to ourselves, in order to do them. And this is the time that your feelings really drive your life. You are not able to control your life balance anymore and wonder what has happened. And then logic is becoming the headmaster of your thoughts and your life is in a good track at last. Balance is close to that point of life. But how can we make the balance in our lives stay?

I have researched this subject a lot, through religions or through psychology. I have read many books about balancing your life, and I have reached the following conclusion.  

The secret to achieve work-life balance, lays in everyday confrontation of your thoughts. Every day try to find some time, to relax and understand why you are doing, what  you are doing, be it your work, or your love life or even your hobbies. Awareness will bring the balance you want.  In that way you will feel that everything you do has value, it is important for you now and for your future self, and you will do it with more passion and happiness. 

 
It is important though to remember what is important in your life during this time. What are your values? In that way you create balance, as you give the attention that is needed to each field of your life.  Your values drive you, to use your energy in the way that you will be happy.  Then you just trust your inner voice that listens to your values and you are calm.




Books i suggest abour balance: The monk who sold his ferrari,  Learn to balance your life
Site:essential zen habits  

"Find your values in life, and apply them every day. Live with purpose, passion and awareness. Always have time to think why you are doing what you are doing, and balance will be achieved."

Anastasia Chatzikontidou

Brand Storytelling, the new marketing trend

Brand storytelling has been  developed as one of the best communicators between the company and the customer. The message that  corporation wants to pass is more easily passed in this way and customer loyalty, that is so desired is more possible.

Future Learn has a course about this field, called  Brand Storytelling, and explains in the best way how it can be used to attract customers and keep them loyal. It is true that from ancient years stories have survived, in contrast with plain facts. Is in the nature of human beings to remember stories more easily, in fact,  stories are 22 times more memorable, as Jennifer Aaker,  from Stanford University  explains,  than facts alone.

You can watch the video here.

 

Harnessing the Power of Stories

Harnessing the Power of Stories

Harnessing the Power of Stories

You can participate in these courses and get a certificate of completion and of course gain all this powerful knowledge about your company, and how to approach your customers.

Focus on your strategy not on distractions

Too many opportunities!!!Chaos, which one to choose? Which one is the right one for you? How can you know?

Well, I was looking at the LinkedIn profiles of some of my classmates in my university, and figured out that some of them are trainees in some very good universities like University of Illinois , ETH Zurich or somewhere else. You see that you lack the experience field in your resume. What do you do? No, no, no. The right question is not what do you do, is what you want to achieve long-term and will this particular action help you achieve it.

It is very easy to get out of track while you make progress with your job, when you focus on something else for a while. Do you have a strategy? If you do then you probably know what you are doing and you found out what makes you happy. Stick to it. Focus all your power in that, because that will lead you to your target. Follow your strategy; you have thought through it a lot.

If you haven't got a strategy, it's ok. You can start by what you like to do now. There must be something in your life that you like doing and focusing extra hard on it, could help you make your life more productive, more creative and happy. Then, see the things that could advance what you chose to follow and make a career around that subject.


Steve Jobs said on distractions in work, that it's not only what you focus on, but what you do not focus on too : "I am prouder for what I did not do, than what i did" Distractions can make you go out of your path and make you lose time in things that are really not important. 

What to do after university graduation, and how to figure it out

Well, you graduated high school, you are around 20 years old and you don't have the best university degree what do you do?

Here is what I did.

Whatever happens, it’s a sure thing that you can find work in your field if you decide that you want to.  But the first thing you need to ask yourself is, what exactly do I want to do.  The one thing that is certain is that life is learning and learning is fun. It makes your character stronger, more productive, more extrovert. Your horizons open in the most effective way to let you reach your full potential.

Many people realize at this age that they want to be entrepreneurs, and the feeling is a force that drives them forward and makes them what they are meant to be. That is great! You will need some lessons in entrepreneurship if you belong in this category.  But what if you cannot afford going to a management college? Whatever happens, you need money, be it to start your company immediately, or to take some courses for that.  What do you do? 

Firstly, you need to find a job that will feed you and allows you save money. Then you start by having online courses.  Yay!! In that way, you make your resume stronger and you learn how to start your company as well. 

There are many platforms out there to help you with that. Some of them are Coursera, EdX, Futurelearn, Digital Business Academy etc.  These lessons will teach you how to figure out exactly what kind of company you want to start and they will guide you through it. 

https://www.coursera.org/

https://www.edx.org/

https://www.futurelearn.com/

Along with your job you can start setting up your company and at some point you will start making money. Then you have to take a big decision. In order for you to stay in the best possible situation you can be, you need to have a great resume and enough experience. But starting your company has already given you that.  You can either choose to have an online degree (2 or 3 years) in a great university (and trust me there are some great universities out there offering management degrees, if you pay of course), go to a college about entrepreneurship, management or whatever it is that interests you, or continue with your and try to reach the top.

But what if you choose two of them and then accomplish them? You will have two things going and you will gain experience and knowledge.

In another article, we will discuss the choice of not being an entrepreneur and instead choose to pursue a master's degree or a Phd. Everything depends solely on the decisions you make and I will share with you some techniques to make them in the most inexpensive way, gaining the best possible outcomes.

The characteristic of creative and active people is that they want to do whatever they can to reach their goals and unravel their full potential. They always learn, they always focus on something great and they are having a really nice time doing many things, not simultaneously but consecutively. Being a creative person means being yourself. 

Anastasia

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