Recent research says that more than 60% respondents are not able to find a balance between their personal and professional life.
Traditionally thinking leading to more stress and lack of concentration in work, hence leading to greater absenteeism and increase in attrition rate, activities and social spaces are becoming ambiguous.
Work life balance simply means that prioritizing between “work” (career and ambition) on the other hand “life” (health, pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual development) on the other hand.
“Life is all about balance too much and too little can kill”. The best way to balance life is by setting your boundaries in learning to say enough.
Work life balance simply means;
Work life balance = Achievement + Enjoyment
Achievement
- Concurring
- Winning something
- An accomplishment
- A sense of well being
- All the joy of living
Enjoyment
- Pride
- Satisfaction
- Happiness
Reasons for Work life imbalance
- No one have everything and do everything at the same time
- The inability to balance work & family has been linked to :
- Reduced work performance
- Increased absenteeism
- Lower commitment
- Poor morale
- Competition
- Individual career ambitious
- Global economy
- Longer working hours
- International business
Determining your priorities:
- What are the essential components to a quality life?
- What are you truly passionate about in life?
- What do you value most?
- Rank order these areas of your life according to the amount of time & energy you spend on each
- Prioritizing tasks and planning the activities can help to take out sometime which can be utilized for other purpose
Time Management: Is one of the best solutions which can help to reduce the imbalance between the personal & the work life of the individual.
How to achieve work life balance: Depends on the two factors
Purpose: to focus on how to successfully combine work ,family relationships & leisure time in to satisfy life.
Approach: To create a skill set that enhance the ability to evaluate priorities, focus on the big picture and use long range planning.
Each person has his/her own formula defining the composition of career, family, friends and self in to their integrated whole.
Dream: When people’s lives are out of balance they are unable to identify the obvious options for themselves and their family
Be selfish yourself first: you are no good to anyone if you yourself are indisposed.
Focus on whatever your are doing: Maximize your productivity at work and don’t let unfinished business carry one into your personal time. Always put in your best effort…, even if it’s not your core competence.
Be organized: Disorganization is the theft of time. Try to manage your day instead of having the day manage you.
Make list: Use technologies the PDA to offload the stress of remembering
Priorities: list invariably become lengthy, identify those which contribute towards a balance between work & life.
Don’t procrastinate: why invite stress to build up. It is only a compounding multiplier leading you in one direction only
Tips:
- Simplify
- Learn to say “No”
- No one is indispensable
- Stay at home. Listen to music
- Chill out
- De- stress
- Stress higher level of work load
- But “Take it easy”
- Else high bp!!
- So de-stress
- Take-up
- Yoga
- Painting
- Mediation
- Deep breathing.
- Be a child
- Read fairy tales to your child
- Take a pet
- Eat cotton candy, ice cone
- Go on holiday
- An impulse outing with family
- No one’s looking!!
- Share the load
- In family divide the tasks
- In work place
- Delegate
- Don’t do this fishing for them, teach them how to fish”
- Slow down
- Do not get pulled from different directions
- One step at a time
- Let go to see light, discover new ways to get things done
- Take care of your health
- “All work and no play, makes you dull”
- Talk a walk, go to yoga or gym
- Take up sport, pet, hobby
- Well balanced food
- Sleep on time
- Don’t postpone :
- Never procrastinate
- Avoidance takes up more energy than actually doing it.
- Have a positive approach :
- Look around, you may see things to be grateful about.
- Make a list of things you are thankful for….
- Take charge :
- Plan ahead,
- Long term
- Medium term
- Short term
The key word is balance….
Find the right balance that works for you
Celebrate your success and don’t as dwell on your failure
Life is a process … and so is striving for balance in your life.