We know juggling life, work, and a design course isn’t always easy — and yet here you are, doing it all 
We’d love to hear from you:
What’s your top tip for managing your work/study/life balance?
Whether it’s a mindset, a planner hack, or a late-night chocolate stash 
— share what’s helped you stay afloat (and maybe even thrive!) during your course.
Drop your tip below — your advice might be just what someone else needs to hear today 
I think what helped me a lot was schedule. knowing that I work well at night, and I actually have time at night I use to work every night.
I also tried scheduling my Sundays around my projects.
And lots of coffee 
I set my internet to shut off at 3:00, when my kids come home from school. It turns back on at 8:00. That way, I’m completely offline during family time, and fully focused when it’s time to work.
That’s beautiful! On a technical level, how do you do that? (I used to have webchaver / covenant eyes specifically for this feature, but they no longer offer it… been searching for a replacement!)
a very simple way is to put your internet router on a timer - it can obvsly be turned off but if your router isnt easily accessible like mine behind furniture its a good idea…
Any ideas on how to avoid getting lost browsing and opening designergy links or random stuff when there’s work to do? I really struggle with that.”
me too , would like some advice…
Techloq filter offer this option
Balancing it all…
that is the million dollar question! I think what I do is juggle it all and hope no important balls fall in the process… Setting boundaries for yourself is really the best way. When my kids were younger they didn’t know I worked as I was never on the computer when they were around. At this point I have older kids who are awake until way past when they should be so I’m not able to wait until they’re asleep anymore. I don’t have a smart phone, so if I’m not by my desk I am not reachable.
I BH am able to function on not so much sleep… for a couple days at a time and then I crash 
but I can pull late nights when need be to meet deadlines, that works better for me then working through the afternoon which is my family time.
My main survival tactic- I take a nap everyday! could be for just 10mins, could be for half hour. I need that to be able to work with a clear brain.
True! Unfortunately it’s not compatible with Mac… unless that’s changed? I’m using Gentech now.
Gentech offers it too! It’s called quality time settings and you could choose the hours it goes off.
Or on a mac under screen time you can set downtime hours where your screen gets blank during those hours (easy to override, by just clicking ignore but good if it’s something you really want and will be disciplined about )
Thanks so much!! Will reach out to gentech 
Have you got anything else to add to these tips?
Especially whilst taking the course?!
How did you manage with your project deadlines?
For those of us in Eretz Yisrael I think its the Billion dollar question at the moment!! With a siren last night, another one this morning and kids home from school - would love to hear tips on how everyone is getting to their deadlines and/or getting work hours in…
I just listened to a few podcasts on this (CEO moms) and came out with a few points to make my life manageable, might help others:
*Group tasks so you don’t carry so many little things on your head.
*Use a planner!! best best thing!! whatever isn’t written down uses real estate in our head, and it’s too much to carry. schedule everything to a date so it actually happens. I use a few color pens so things like deadlines and appointments are in red, things I’d like to get done is in black…
*Take once a week (weekend) to schedule next week, reschedule the things that didn’t happen…
*Do what works for you!! wake up early, go sleep late, nap afternoon… but living all life tired isn’t a life!! work work work then crash and sleep sleep sleep isn’t life, it’s survival. make sure your schedule works for you!!
*You could also delegate work (work or house work) I personally like doing everything myself I know it’s not super sustainable but it works for me now…
These are a few pointers I took out for my life…
Thanks to Michal Eisik of Copytribe-most of these ideas are from her…
just wanna chime in (not in Isreal bh @adinacahn cant imageine how any one can survive the situation nevermind work!!)
to answer the general question of how to balance it its to have set work hours and only work in those hours - i have a seperate work phone number so know not to answer work calls after work hours and even though i have a smartphone i have removed every. single. distraction. even what people call basics like email so no getting into something ‘by mistake’
another thing i started doing is i have a complete work planner and calender using notion and use a timer to time myself on tasks and reminders to make sure i finish on time and @Leah1 if your struggling to stay focused theres a really good book called the 5 second rule by Mel Robbins that works so good for this!! check it out!
but yea to figure it all out takes a lot of work!!