Our community is filled with hard-working, high achieving entrepreneurs and creatives and so work-life balance is a complicated, but highly relevant topic. We’ve shared some responses from the community about work life balance and how their views have evolved over time below.

Brooklyn Murphy | Business owner & entrepreneur

My balance has changed overtime by really planning everything out, it took me some time to actually sit down and list what is the most important to the least. I often think balance reflects on you, and your lifestyle. You can have everything planned out, but if you don’t follow the plan it will not work out. Balancing between work, school, chores, etc can truly be a challenge, and it takes some time to getting used too but I think everyone can do it. We all have the same 24 hours in a day as everyone else. Read more>>

Shari Smith | eBay Seller and trainer Pure Barre Teacher

When my husband, Arlie, and I were married, we bought a house in San Ramon, CA, and for the first time we had a house payment. I got a job as a recruiter at a Fortune 500 company, and I was working 11 hour days. The money was great, but I was completely strung out on stress. There was no work life balance. Read more>>

Lital Julia | Social Media Content Creator

When I first started in the social media realm I thought I had to be on every single day, every single minute. I did not separate my time because I thought that being online meant that I needed to share every single moment of my life. It started to feel like everything I was doing was almost all about social media and it started to create a negative relationship. Read more>>