How to gain a work-life balance for the perfect English-language teacher

If you love your job, if you like the people you work with, if you have a great family but you seem to finish every day thinking 'There just aren't enough hours to get everything I need to do done'. So a balanced life for a teacher is it dream or reality? I’ll try to answer this question.

But before start speaking about   work-life balance for an English-language teacher, I need to not just identify the symptoms - stress, ill health, even an overbearing sense of guilt has been cited - but recognize the full range of issues facing today's teachers in their 'average' day.

In the work environment, balance is all about productivity, communicating and improving assertiveness. Many of these areas are driven by each individual's circumstances, their school's goals and expectations.

Balance in teacher’s own life, by contrast, is more to do with finding time for yourself, developing relationships, building your own self-worth, self-belief and confidence. While these areas often involve others, you have the skills to influence them more pro-actively than the work issues. After all, English-language teacher manage the development of many children every day. So it is really difficult to find this gold balance.

I think a lot about this problem and found some ways out. First of all to be a perfectionist you need to think of your day as 24 hours. Decide how much time teacher is going to spend sleeping, eating, being with family, working, leisure and time for 'me'. This isn't always easy, but try just 10 minutes for you at first, and build up.

If English-language teacher takes work home, sets times when he or she will deal with this and be strict about it. The perfectionist should make sure he or she has a 'stop time' so that teacher can relax.

Once you built up on 10 minutes 'for yourself', try to spend 30 minutes just doing nothing. If you can, let your mind drift.

Clear your desk every evening and be less hassled when you get in the next day.

Delegate more - be honest, is there anything you can pass to the school, or the support assistants?

Ban sticky notes from your desk. You'll be distracted and react to them, rather than completing anything.

Refuse to argue over small things. It's a waste of time to bicker and causes more stress in the end.

I have looked at the problems with work life balance and now know the areas that English-language teacher can change or influence. I have some ideas on how to tackle issues facing teacher now and into the future. But this is only the start of the perfectionist’s way to find work-life balance journey.