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Whether in service, profession or business, we normally forget a very important aspect of life, the work-life balance. Some people even don't know, what is work-life balance and how to keep that. We normally work like a programed robot or a puppet of the management to hurriedly prepare ourselves to go to our workplace, do work, carry out ethical or unethical instructions or face reprimands of our bosses, clients, customers, etc. and reach our homes only when we are freed by the requirements of our work places or the traffic jams, etc. Tired enough from the daily chores, take food and go to bed to be prepared for the next day routine. In all this process, we normally forget or overlook our responsibilities towards our homes and family affairs, in pleasing our bosses, or working overtime just to achieve workplace targets, or our own high ambitions to be wealthy, or to show ourselves to be talented and more competent, or fulfilling unethical wishes of our bosses, etc.

So, the question arises, how to strike a work-life balance to make our lives really tension-free, happy, healthy, and prosperous?

All are therefore invited to lend their views for the benefit of all the readers, as to what can be the ways to strike a work-life balance?

 

 
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1 Do what you are expected
2 "Personal and Professional life is different"
3 Always keep balance between your work place requirement and family welfare
4 KEEP BALANCE IN PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LIFE
5 forget office at home and forget home at office
6 Professional & Personal Life should go Parallel
7 Develop better understanding of Family & Job
8 By proper Planning and Management
9 Work to live - Not Live to Work
10 Management should help take care of the work-life balance of the employee.
11 Follow space and time religiously

Do what you are expected

idea posted by Darshana Sawant HR Manager, Leading IT services company

Normally the work life balance gets disturbed because of not meeting your expectations. Never take your work for granted, do you work on time and have time to spend for you family and friends......   

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Set a goal for your career & planned it properly.& discuss it with your family members & they will support you by all means.

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Expectations are endless,i think its better to prioritise what you need to do when.

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"Personal and Professional life is different"

idea posted by anuradha Education Coordinator, A to Z Technologies
I totally agree with Mr. Mohammed that Profession and personal life should be kept away from each other. After working hrs one should concentrate on family life.
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by Amiya Chaudhuri, Company Partner , ADUNIQUE 76  | 01 17 2011 11:16:59 +0000

Very true. Family is where we belong to. We all have responsilities. That too call for managing a whole lot of activities equally serious and important as in professional life

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Always keep balance between your work place requirement and family welfare

idea posted by PS Dhingra CEO & Vigilance & Transformation Management Consultant, Dhingra Group of Management & Educational Consultants

Must try to keep balance between one's work place requirement and  family welfare. Taking care over and above the requirements on any one aspect can create an uncontrollable imbalance on the other aspect that can results in to disturbance of one's mental peace. Once mental peace is disturbed, you cannot prosper well, either in your career or on the life front.

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Hi Manish Lalla,

You have picked up the idea in right spirit. One should not strain his family life in preference to the lust for earning more & more.

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Dear Mohammad,

At least I do not agree with your views, "How one should follow, i leave up to readers," as if you have floated an idea that should be duly elaborated to be conceived properly and followed by the readers. That should not be left for the readers to interpret in their own and different ways based on their individual presumptions.

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KEEP BALANCE IN PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LIFE

idea posted by Manish Lalla M.M.S student, H &GHM INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
Today it is seen that many people work for for than 12 hrs..... which ultimatly lead to the clashes in there personal life...... People forget that for what they r working and it is family..... If u don't have family then what is the use of earning so much money........ extra time devoted to work also lead to health problem stress factor and other people perceived that the person who overwork is the slave of money.......
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forget office at home and forget home at office

idea posted by kanukurthy sudershanrao Operations Manager, Andhra Bank

One finds many a person engaged in talking about work place problems at home and home problems at office there by one cannot do justice either to the office work or one's responsibilities at home

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Professional & Personal Life should go Parallel

idea posted by Mohammed Sarfaraz Alam Team Lead - Process Design & Quality Control, Powertech Automation Solutions
Think about work only between entering the Company Gate & Exiting the gate.. rest of the time concentrate on personal life lest any urgent official work..
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Develop better understanding of Family & Job

idea posted by KALIYAMOORTHY Oil & Gas Area Coordinator, Undisclosed

Make familiar with Family & Members, about the working environment & the details of the job & your participation. Also, the the Work-place knows your family requirements. This, many an occassion help enrich better relationship between Family & the Job. The Purpose of arranging get-together is to understand each others' requirement to enrich the Life.

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By proper Planning and Management

idea posted by Jitender Kumar MBA/PGDM student, Kurukshetra University PG Regional College
By proper planning and Management we can strike a balance between our work and life.
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Work to live - Not Live to Work

idea posted by Niraj S Kakkad Manager - Investments
Most often individuals forget to see the bigger picture, we study, get qualified and accept a job offer this entire cycle is followed for one major incentive i,e, MONEY, which is to give the best we can to our family, BUT what our family needs from us is Money, Time, Love, Security, good ear(LISTEN) . to live we need all of this but most often MONEY takes the top seat and we get so engrossed in earning more and more that the other attributes which the family expects are lost, this creates frustration, which leads to us spending more time at work to avoid going home and walking into an arguement, and the circle continues till such time that we stop working to LIVE but start LIVING to work. Change the outlook to life and see the bigger picture.
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Management should help take care of the work-life balance of the employee.

idea posted by PS Dhingra CEO & Vigilance & Transformation Management Consultant, Dhingra Group of Management & Educational Consultants

I saw an organization where, even the employee used to remain busy in office affairs, the management made such an employee welfare measure that the employee had nothing to worry about most of his family affairs. The employee was required just to intimate the office receptionist, what his personal liability of the day was towards his family life, e.g., to see a doctor for illness of any family member, or to book a ticket for his/her or family members travel to any place, etc. The receptionist used to inform the concerned Public Relation Officer or the Welfare Officer about that day's requirement of the employee. Some person of the welfare unit used to visit his/her home along with the doctor, or take the family member to the doctor, or the PRO arranged the booking of the ticket for the employee and his/her family members. This way, the employee proved to be much more productive for the organization, while his/her work-life balance was also not disturbed, as the organization, itself, used to take care of the work-life balance of the employee.

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Follow space and time religiously

idea posted by Mohammad Bakhsh Project Leader/Managing Consultant, Freelancer

Once, we are grown and engaged to fulfill our obligation,somewhere on the way we stray and first casualty is our family.That is why S & T is very important aspect of once's life.How one should follow ,i leave up to readers.

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