While it's important to maintain certain boundaries between your work life and personal life, fostering a friendship with a co-worker is a healthy way to improve the daily grind.
It's not always professional (or easy) to become bosom buddies with co-workers you work directly with, but being friends with fellow employees from other departments offers many rewards — from having someone to vent to, having a steady lunch date to having someone who can help you when you have a question or feel lost. Do you have a work BFF that you turn to when you need a laugh, help or a shoulder to lean on?
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As much as I'd love for it to be true, saying that I have a good work-life balance would be a lie. It's something that I'm working on but it requires constant reminders and yogic affirmations that "I am a healthy, balanced person." If I had to rate my work-life balance on a scale from one to 10 (one being the least balanced and 10 being the most), I'd have to give a score around four. 
The glow from a leisurely vacation can quickly turn into anxiety-induced insomnia the night before returning to the office. You don't care about showing off your tan to your co-workers who have been stuck in front of their computers; you just want one more day of not adhering to a tight schedule involving more than breakfast, lunch, happy hour, and dinner.
You can help yourself get back into the work groove by doing a little planning ahead of your vacation. 
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