How to keep your private and public life separate

Being a working individual, it can be quite a task to keep your public and personal life separate. Of course, it is important for sanity but also can be quite tricky. If you are a public’s person, people or audience would want to know everything about you. It is natural for them to have curiosity and also natural for you to feel uncomfortable sharing everything. But there are a few ways wherein you can still continue to work without facing a lot of heat about sharing your personal life.

First and foremost, understand whom you can trust. It doesn’t take much time for news to fly. You might say something about your personal life to something and he/she may spread it across. This is a very common way of news making its way and reaching everyone. Keep your boundaries set and don’t overshare until you are completely sure. A lot of times, people, being emotional beings share a lot of things regarding their personal life that they may regret later on, so don’t do that.

Don’t allow others to interfere in your life too much. Don’t let people ask you too many questions regarding your personal life and don’t let them in your space until completely sure. One should know how to dodge the questions and should also know how to politely ask them to move on. You can keep your private life as private and sacred as you want if you choose to.

Leave your domestic matters at home and then come to work. This might be tough and also extremely difficult to follow but people may come to know what you are feeling just by how you look and how your mood is. Workplace is different and home is different. And to differentiate them and move along is what is important. Creating a sense of switch at work and at home makes it easier for you to keep those things separate.

Keeping your online life personal is extremely important. Internet is a wild place and everything is very easily available there. Drawing boundaries of what you choose to share with the world and what you don’t is what counts. A lot of times, people choose to share way too much information on the social media leading to bad after effects which one wouldn’t want. Maintaining a real yet personal account helps to keep everything and every detail about your life safe and also separate.

Adjust your privacy setting. This is something that again comes in the social media part, but regardless it is very important to keep your privacy settings in control. Hacking and cyber crime is very common these days. A person can easily hack your accounts and phone and can end up getting a lot of personal stuff that you wouldn’t want to be revealed. 

Being a working individual can take a toll on your personal life and it becomes quite a task to manage both. It is almost as if you are playing two parts, one who is a professional and one who is yourself. But simple things like these may help you cope up and also help you draw a line that separates both the things gracefully.