Balancing Act

Now days, most of us are struggling with one common problem that is STRESS. Irrespective of level, we are facing it in little of bigger manner. These stress resulted in problem at office as well as at home front. Making e balance between work and personal life is become very difficult today. In today’s fast moving world, priorities of personal and professional life are continuously shifting at time interval; hence it’s becomes necessary to balance this two. Globalization has changed the total scenario, the working condition as well as total environment has changed. If you recall you own working condition and environment surrounding you before 3-4 years, there is a visible difference today. Taking equal responsibilities family more and more women are joining either a job or doing something at home to earn for the family to improve standard of living and for better education of their kids.

Many of us may have experienced the instances when we became late or even absent in Parent-Teacher meeting arranged at school, due to some urgent job or meeting or even due to your engagement in some training. Many of us are going late at home to complete the target given by bosses. Now, if you see other way around, you may get late sometimes even for office due to some family matters.

These types of situations happen with most of us and that’s really gives stress. Your problem at office or very much busy work schedule develops stress in you and those directly affects and reflect in your attitude towards your kids or wife, when you go home. On the other way, your family problems like illness of your near one or behavior of kids etc reflects at your office. Office and home environment affect each other. Total elimination of all family and office conflicts is impossible, but we can try to balance the both and minimize the same at some extent.

It is very much important to set priorities in a right manner as priorities keeping changing in life; we must have to review the importance of what we are doing throughout the day. Normally, which types of the incidents ignite stress in you? We can make a note of it and try to avoid that situation.

We often see that many of us bringing some files / diary at home. What’s the reason? Don’t get enough time in the office to complete your files or making important notes? If we can avoid such things we can find better time for our family. Needless to mention that, BACHPAN of your kids is very much important. It is very much important to spend your precious time for them for their better development. It’s only WE who can draw a LAKSHMAN REKHA between these two areas for better balance between two.

When we go back home, many times unknowingly we are discussing office matter / problems at home. Means, again and again we are recalling our stressful experiences at home also. Some soft music or activities like gardening can give us pleasure. We should try to stop thinking about the office problems at least at home. Leave that matter at your office only and discuss only about self and family.

Normally, everyone has tendency to discuss unnecessary about WHY IT HAPPENED??…Eventually we are wasting our precious time for finding reasons or on the post-mortem of the matter. We should FOCUS only on RESULT and think for WHAT TO DO NOW?

Goals are meant for achieving and sets for your professional life is very much important too, but there are the only GOALS in our life? Why to set the goals that not achievable? We should have some realistic goals that can be achievable and at the same time not gives us EXTRA stress that’s very harmful for self and Family.

Whenever we went to purchase anything from the market, we hardly forget to see that the vendor weighting the goods is OK or not, because we know that if he doesn’t weigh properly, we will be in loss. The same is applicable with our life also. Balancing Work and Family is very much important. There are no hard and fast rules or procedures to achieve this balance. Different kind of strategies works differently for families. Create your own BALANCING PLAN and have a nice, enjoyable professional and family life