work life balance: where’s the equilibrium? It’s a hotly debated headline these days….
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All those who are reading this article might be facing a challenging situation wherein you’re not able to balance your personal and professional life.?
Friends, what exactly is a work-life balance, now many of us face this situation wherein. we are torn between our professional duties and our duties at home. Now we all have a lot of responsibilities at the both the fronts. You might be a parent, or you might be of you know a spouse you might be a daughter in-law or mother-in-law, or you could also be a father you know many duties and responsibilities that you might have. Now it is important to realize that you will never ever be able to achieve a work life balance. Achieving work life balance is a myth. when yes you heard that correctly. Achieving work life balance is a complete myth because what is work life balance for me could not be for you off any other person. And hence it becomes important that whatever role and responsibility we are in. we are not never ever going to be always that hundred percent in that role or responsibility. Hence work life balance is the term used to describe the balance that an induvial needs between time allocated for work and other aspects of life. At one day you could be a great friend another day you could be also a great motivator the next day you could be a good manager as well but not every day would you feel the same for all your duties and responsibilities.
There are four causes of imbalance, one is societal expectations. When you give in to societal expectations and pressures of how much societal expectations from you.?
Second is when you’re extreme ambitious well it’s not wrong to be ambitious however when you are so completely cued into a mission that you forget everything else when you are on the extreme side of it is bad.?
Third is when you are desperate for perfection and fourth is when you are denied depression. Even if you’re feeling low and feeling depressed you kind of deny those feelings and attitudes is when are all these four causes of imbalance.?
So, what exactly is the balance? Balance is when you feel at ease or at equilibrium with certain things like you’re eating properly, your health, your free time, your education, your relationship, and your family. When you’re able to feel a calm sense of equilibrium between all the aspects of your life is when or rather what I would say is balance.?
Well Let’s look at what is NOT work life balance. Work life balance does not mean something which is of completely equal balance. There will always be something which is really needing or wanting your attention at that point. so, it’s not a complete balance kind of a situation. Your best individual work life balance will vary over time and according to situations, one day you may feel more of something and less of something. There is no perfect one-size-fits-all, so as I mentioned before what may be work life balance for me could not be for somebody else. So hence one size does not fit all.?
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Let’s look at why do we need work life balance in our life or what is the importance of significance of work life balance and here they are to maintain your mental health if we don’t balance between our work and our professional and our personal lives. We will feel a lot of mental torture somewhere and we might feel a little disbalance mentally it increases productivity it will add on to your productivity and enhance your productivity. being or having a work-life balance will also make you a more rounded individual it’s something which will add on to personality when you’re able to manage everything within your time spheres next is you only get one life so it’s important to enjoy your life at the same time balance it out with things which are important and are a priority for you.
So, how do we achieve work/life balance? Let’s look at that learn how to let go of things, don’t hold on to things, don’t control things so much. do things as much as you can and then the rest needs to be left over to God to take so do not hold on to your things your material possessions ultimately when you die you’re going to leave all of that here won’t you. so, letting go is very important because just like you hold a fistful of sand the tighter you hold on to it the more likely the sand is you know going to slip through your fingers and space within your fingers in the way or rather in the same way do not hold on to things.?
Establish boundaries at work and stick to them. It’s important to prioritize and prioritize not only her work but also your time is very important.?
Be selfish about your meantime don’t let somebody else eat into your me time if you have scheduled half an hour for yourself nobody needs to disturb you at that point of time so be very selfish and safeguard your me time do go out and ask for help friends. It’s not wrong to ask for health if you need something you need to tell somebody about it do not assume that people will know what you want you need to ask for help whenever you require it.?
There’s a very nice quotation which says that “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life” life is meant to be lived life is meant to be enjoyed and life is meant to have a balance. do not go into the extremes of anything in life and hence that will help you to have a balanced work life.?
There are a few ways in which you can really have a good work life balance some of those things are to unplug yourself. Well, if something is really taking a lot of your energy and really irritating you and frustrating you at that point of time unplug yourself. just like you unplug or your earphone from a Walkman in the same way you unplug yourself from that situation. Just go out and be with yourself for a little while. limit time wasters now time wasters can be in different ways like social media certain friends who just come to waste our time there could be some other time wasters as well like watching too much of television so try to limit your time wasters and try to only schedule little time for trying wasters and that way you will have a work life balance try to exercise go out and get physically active. changes your life schedule if there are some things which are not letting you have a work life balance. I think it’s time to change your life and change people around and in the environment that you are in for a little while. Last but not least it is very important to meditate just be relaxed and calm and you will achieve work life balance.?
Well to conclude this article on work life balance. Work life balance is about creating and maintaining a supportive and healthy environment which will enable individuals to have balance between work and personal responsibilities and thus strengthening loyalty and productivity.??
Well, I do hope you have enjoyed reading this article on work life balance. Make sure that you can really achieve work life balance for yourselves. Thank you once again for reading.
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