Tag: “Creativity”

Setting routines is sometimes a controversial topic. There are people who love to have a solid structure to move through their day-to-day lives, and there are people – especially artists and people with very creative jobs – who don’t like to have any kind of strict schedule that might constrain their creativity.

As beneficial and enjoyable as working outside your home is, many prefer to work from home. And for good reason. The convenience and comfortability of an at-home setup are enticing.

The importance of work-life balance has been a critical topic in recent years. But to understand the importance and reasons you should maintain a good work-life balance, you must first understand what work-life balance is.

Viktor Frankl, an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, as well as a Nazi concentration camp survivor, wrote the book Man’s Search for Meaning. In it, he analysed man’s capacity to overcome his difficulties from a psychiatric point of view. He explains that all human beings, unlike animals, have self-awareness and the ability to act on the basis of that awareness. This means that we’re capable of responding to a stimulus in a completely different way to what our instincts suggest and even to what we have been taught.

The word “routine” often has negative connotations for many people. To them it means doing things always in the same way and on the same schedule, boring things that limit their freedom and creativity.