HBR Guide to Work-Life Balance

You can have it all. You can't have it all. Balance your work and your life. There is nobalance. Prioritise! Manage your time!

With so much conflicting advice and so many demands on your time, it's no wonderyou feel overwhelmed by your commitments. No matter your age, your marital orparental status, or your profession, you juggle a lot. Work, home, family duties,volunteer activities, your own interests and mental health - every day you face theconstant push and pull of a full life.

But having a full life isn't a bad thing, and it doesn't have to be a constant source ofstress. You'll never divide your time or attention evenly between all of your activitiesand commitments, but you can discover ways to make choices and trade-offs and feelless stressed about them. This guide brings together a variety of expert voices with acarefully selected set of ideas for managing all of your competing interests moreeffectively. You'll learn how to:

• Make sustainable contributions to the most important areas of your life 
• Create a schedule that works for most everyone, most of the time 
• Understand the difference between must-do and to-do items on your list 
• Make time for yourself
  
• Assuage feelings of guilt and failure
  
• Ease the strain on your personal and professional relationships 
• Be present at home - and at work
  
• Cope with unexpected gaps in child - or eldercare
  
• Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, from a source youtrust

Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.