Life Balance

A very common term used in the IT industry is Work Life Balance. But I would like to talk about our lives and the balance we are all doing to manage. Wait wait.. What life we are talking about here? Work life and personal life? I don’t think these are the only two different lives we have.  I feel Work life and Personal Life are not just two, they have lot of internal variations. Let's see

 

Forget about your personal life for some time. Work life itself has different shades in it. Based on the location you are working, you have various stakeholders to manage.  Based on which, your work life is dependent on. Onsite, offshore, client and internal Leadership team, etc, etc. All these will drive your work life. You need to do lot of balancing act to manage and get things done. While managing client expectations, you will completely lose track of your internal activities. Its true other way round as well. Isn't it?

 

 

- JANA KINGSFORD

Now let's see how are we doing on our personal life. When I look back, I wonder how much I became busy. As busy as I can't check my Facebook posts or what'sApp messages. I am not even talking about any new posts from my side. I couldn't even check and follow others posts. I remember playing some games. Let me think what those are... oh yah! I now remember there are some pawns, a queen and a king. Yes you are right. That's Chess. I wonder how I used to get so much of time in the world to play such a lengthy game. Can I get those days back? Sometimes I feel why is the day is so short. You got it right, when I say day it's day and night. All together 24 hours are not sufficient, how can I only refer to only day.

 

In personal life also I see lot of shades. Family life, social life and the other important one that you can't ignore is your own personal life. Have you ever realized that you are missing so many small things that you want to do, but you skip them, rather sacrifice them for either for family or for work.

Why is this happening? Whom should I blame? my manager, my team, my client, my family, my friends or myself?

What's the solution then? Can I come back to normal anytime soon? Can I come out of this maze at all?

One thing I feel is early the better that you recognize that you are losing control over your time. Then the solutions will start coming.

Only YOU can get a solution to YOUR situation.

Realize it soon and Act on it.

All the Best