Work Life Balance - How do you manage

I like keeping balance of my life, I cannot say I hate work, but I hate bringing work home. I always strive for finishing all my work during working time, so as not to work overtime. Even though I cannot finish work before the closing time, I'll work overtime in the office but not at home. I think I can only rest at home but not work. I'm just keeping balance like this.

Yeah I know how you feel. It's pretty stressful! But what I do, is I set up a personal schedule or have my own agenda planned for myself for the day. Sometimes things could change during an occurring event. So sometimes plans can fail. After work I go home, listening to soothing music to unwind then I either cook a home cooked meal and wait for the man to come home or I have some me time like an at home spa kind of thing just to lift off the work blues. When I have no time to do all of that since I'm completely exhausted, then I sleep. But my personal life? When I'm not at all busy, my spouse and I would just talk and plan stuff for a little for some fun free time where we'd just take random trips anywhere in the city and just hang for a day or we'd go on an actual vacation just to get away. When it comes to friends, I tend to plan ahead for weekend stuff like going places just to have some fun on my day offs. Thank goodness for day offs. I'm not a workaholic since I have a life I want to live so I just like to treat myself to something nice in the end.

I have been through a hard work ship and managing personal life side by side, but I have always learnt that one thing that spoils everything is the stress factor.If we learn to manage stress we can achieve a balance between, I know it is easy to say but give it a try its not that difficult .Always try to seperate both entities life and work .Dont bring work pressures into home and personal problems into office .I guess that helps.