Why Balance Between Energy & Productivity Matters in Your Day

Exploring how energy and pace matters in your day

The Bento Method
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3 min readApr 11, 2022

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The pace of how we work has been ever-increasing.

Work/life balance has become drastically difficult to navigate, with more mindful ways to take breaks but new challenges like remote work to counter progress being made with our day-to-day productivity.

The best way to describe work/life balance is seesaw.

Whilst it goes up and down, we know that (if it isn’t broken) when we take ourselves away from it, it settles, it’ll balance between the two ends.

Energy Management

Some days are heavier than others with work or with your personal life. That’s why energy is so valuable. Balancing our energy across a week can sustain us for a more productive week, versus aiming for short-term gains.

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