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Maintaining a Healthy Work/Life Balance as an Entrepreneur

Understanding how to find the right balance between your ambitions and your down-time.

By Howard DavnerPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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One of the most important things you can do for your career is maintain a healthy work/life balance. This is because work and life are two sides of the same coin. When you can keep your work/life balance close to your heart, you’ll be better equipped to handle the shortcomings that come your way.

It’s essential to be proactive about finding this balance. Doing so allows one to put one hundred percent into their working hours – while still enjoying the time they have off.

How to Keep a Healthy Work/Life Balance

Entrepreneurs need to set boundaries and manage their time in a way that is supportive of their careers. They also need to be conscious of the people around them and how they impact their work/life balance.

Thankfully, there are many tricks an entrepreneur can deploy to help them find this balance. Read below for some advice on how to do so.

Tips for Keeping a Healthy Work/Life Balance

Entrepreneurs can create a policy that requires them to set an end goal as their personal goal. You can set out what you want to accomplish and how long it will take. You can also have set hours and a specific schedule for how you can stay productive. These are all important ways to help keep a balanced work/life balance, but they’re not the only things that count.

One of the best ways to maintain a balance is by keeping the two separate. When you leave work, also leave the work behind. Likewise, do the reverse when heading into work – leave the personal issues at home (when possible). This can be quite the challenge for some entrepreneurs, as their minds enjoy working on work problems. However, it is essential to enjoy one’s relaxing hours whenever possible.

How to Make Sure You Have Enough Therapy to Support Your Career

If you cannot maintain a healthy work/life balance, you won’t support your career-long. Sometimes, that means knowing when to reach out to mental health experts. Therapy is a fantastic way of understanding one’s limitations and boundaries. A certified therapist can help entrepreneurs establish boundaries between work and life, making that balance easier to find.

How to Manage Your Time and Energy

Many people try to work more than 30 hours per week. They feel energized upon completion of a project. However, once again, the idea of boundaries comes into play. When you’re able to set boundaries about how much work you can do each day, you’ll be able to manage your time and energy more effectively. You won’t have as much stress on your mind, and you’ll be able to focus on what you need to focus on.

It is essential to have a work/life balance respectful of your time and career in today’s economy.

About Howard Davner

Local to West Orange, New Jersey, Howard Davner is an experienced financial entrepreneur, equity trader, and portfolio manager. With a career spanning over 25 years in the financial industry, Howard has held some impressive titles. The majority of his career was spent on Wall Street with Goldman Sachs. In this fast-paced environment and highly coveted role of Vice President, Howard managed and coordinated breakout trading situations and takeovers, designed an algorithm trading platform, executed human resources functions, and more. Due to his rigorous work ethic, he was consistently ranked among the top ten percent for annual peer and management review and was selected to trade marquee issues for the firm.

Throughout his long career on Wall Street, Howard Davner built an extensive portfolio of accomplishments. He established a particular reputation for himself, as he was known for continuously handling increasing responsibilities by earning a fast-track promotion to New York Stock Exchange market maker and, ultimately, the team captain. Howard also became a top revenue producer, had direct oversight of ten stocks with a daily trading volume of five million shares, achieved top producer ranking for generating over three million dollars in annual trading profits and more.

Prior to entering into New York’s Wall Street work scene, Howard Davner had attended the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, receiving his Bachelor of Arts in Economics. This education helped play a pivotal role in shaping him into the business-minded individual that he is today, although his entrepreneurial spirit stems back to his childhood when he would mow lawns and run a paper route.

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About the Creator

Howard Davner

Local to West Orange, New Jersey, Howard Davner is an experienced financial entrepreneur, equity trader, and portfolio manager. Howard’s extensive business experience has made him an expert in finance, business practices, and more.

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