85% people in the world believe in creating a balance between both personal & professional living. Sounds simple and easy to read; however it’s as difficult as identifying a hair in a bucket filled with flour. Personal life includes - you, family, friends & surroundings you are accountable to. Professional life includes - you & your work. There is one similarity in both - ‘You’.
The Monday morning alarm suggests a transition to your professional life. Get formally/informally dressed up, reach office on time, attend meetings, run after achieving targets and delivering satisfactory results. We follow the same routine for five days. Starting from Monday to Friday, the level of energy at work keeps on dipping. The energy levels rise as Friday evenings commence.
A gradual shift every week - a transition to personal life. A life you love. Get dressed, attend parties, spend time with family & friends is the basic routine that one follows on weekends. However, there is an attachment. At an average, more than 60% employees spend 40% of their time checking emails, working from home, attending Skype calls - in short working. The imbalance starts here. This spoils your weekend & the following week. WHO WINS?
In order to be successful in life, it is important to draw a Line Of Control (LOC) that helps in creating sync between your personal & professional life. Creating a sync means sharing merry time-lengths, both at workplace and your space. The following are certain scripts that can help in creating a sync:
- The tasks assigned to you should be completed in the given time-frame. You need to kill ‘PROCRASTINATION’. Delay in submissions creates an imbalance.
- Follow a schedule at work place. Create a to-do list and follow it religiously.
- Your boss has the right to catch you through emails/calls. Always answer his calls & reply to his emails. Try not to spoil your weekend if the work can be completed in the following week.
- Try spending 80% of the weekend with family & friends.
- Work stress mustn't burden once you are home. Spend time with children, parents and plan for the next day.
- Never compete with others. Try to improve yourself every day. Give your 100% at workplace. Not 110%. Don’t push yourself to work. This will build stress, resulting a heavy imbalance in personal-professional life.
- Share a smile. Share happiness. This will always keep you thrilled at workplace and your space.
I do not understand the meaning of creating a 50-50 balance between personal & professional life. Its about the level of happiness you share with people around you. When at home - with friends and family, you devote requisite amount of time - receiving no complaints from the other end. Same goes to office - with the boss & colleagues.
You have to synchronize & create a WIN-WIN situation. This will keep you happy and the environment merrier. This should kill any level of stress at work-home, if any. Your boss might ring you up for some urgent work any Saturday evening. If you are able to sync it, you’d CHECKMATE any moment to win the battle.
Don’t create a war between the two worlds - PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL - instead, try synchronizing.
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