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These 6 Free Apps will Help you Maintain a Work-life Balance
We live in an era where our work takes a larger fraction of our attention. It is often difficult to track our priorities, and our desire to thrive and succeed in our career makes us forget that there’s life outside work.
There’s a need to create a work-life balance as this is the first step to being more productive, wholly, in every aspect of our lives. A life that lacks work-life balance will experience stress and constant burn-outs.
Though gadgets can be quite distracting, they can also be efficient in helping us create a well-balanced life. Thanks to technology, these free apps will make work-life balance a reality and not just something you wish to have:
This scheduling app helps you to keep up with family events, appointments, birthdays, and activities. It can also store recipes, plan meals and help you shop for ingredients. It also syncs them up with your Google calendar. If you want to ensure you have more family time and avoid guilt, the Cozi family organiser is the perfect match for you.
This is the app that’ll help you prioritise and achieve those goals you write on paper every day, and stick to the walls only to later forget them. It will remind you, keep you on track and also monitor your progress to encourage you. You’ll see yourself smashing those goals with Strides.
Health is wealth. MedHelper is a tracking app designed to help you keep track of your prescriptions, remind you of medical appointments and checkups, and also tell you when you need a refill of your drugs. It will even tell you the food and drinks to avoid when taking your medications and the likely side effects of the drugs.
Are you a huge reader and you sometimes get sad because you’re not able to keep up with your favourites articles and web pages due to lack of time? Instapaper gives you a bookmark that lets you save articles and get back to them later. Everything saved is offline and you can access them easily on the go, whether on your way back home or the queue waiting for the BRT bus. It is user-friendly as it saves articles in a text-only format and also helps you create notes too.
This saving app allows you to save and invest your money on the go. PiggyVest is an online saving and investing platform that allows customers to save and invest their money that they would normally be tempted to spend. The platform boasts of having over 1,000,000,000 saved every month.
Daily Workouts-Exercise Fitness Workout Trainer
Gone are the days when the perfect way to keep fit or stay healthy was to hit the gym regularly. Sometimes, one might get too busy or even tired to be devoted to it. Daily Workouts is an app that offers a daily workout routine for men and women that takes you through the best exercise you can do in the comfort of your home, within a short period between 5-30 minutes. The app has simple routines with videos and timers to help and guide you. Now, you have no excuse not to keep fit.
The purpose of this article is to not lose yourself in your work or career and to let you know that having a work-life balance is not a myth.
If you’ve vowed to make 2021 the year you get more done, then you need to read this article.
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