Balancing Art of Work and Life

           
Why a term called ‘Work-Life Balance’ came into act?

This term actually started to popularize only in past two decades.then where was this term before?

Back then ‘Work-Life Balance’ was popular among the people who were ruling or accountable for the welfare of a group of people, since they had time only to look after their work rather than spending time for their personal life.

Then what is the reason for it to become so popular with everyone around us?

Later with modernization, people were pushed into a well where there is no ladder to climb back, still they were made to pay for that ladder. Paying for one feasible thing is possible but for that one thing which is not feasible?

This is where we have been controlled for decades, they made us think that we can buy it by earning much and with this thought many started exploiting us. Well people are good in exploiting.

Later came a cruel term which went hand in hand with ‘Work-Life Balance’ called appraisal. This made us think that working for an extra hour a day could get us paid more. Finally could you sense the popularity of ‘Work-Life Balance’?

Many people are struggling to balance their Work life and Real life but it is easier than it seems to be. Start by separating your work from your life.

How to get involved in this separation process? Well, there are few points to stick on to for achieving this.

Differentiate your Work and Life:

To differentiate two deep ends of one’s life, first know which your work is and which your life is.

The place where you put in efforts to be happy only for the last day of month is where your work is.

The place where you put in efforts to be happy for your entire span is where your life is.

Prioritize according to the time:

         

Don’t keep one thing prioritized over the other all the time instead prioritize them according the time of the day, because both work and life are really important.

If you are to concentrate more on one thing you will obviously fail in another and that will strike an imbalance in your work and life.

Balancing Art of Work and Life 

No matter what you do and how much you do, at the end you will be paid only a fixed amount.

WORK IN YOUR LIFE BUT DON’T LIVE IN YOUR WORK

No one is going to pay you for the extra hours you spend in your work, so stop bringing your work home. Being said so, work only for the hours you are being paid for.

At first working extra hours feels like you are hardworking but as the time flies by, you are creating a profile of your own that you will work extra hours daily, driving yourself into an unnecessary imbalance in life.

Work and Life Limit:

One thing that matters over every other thing is that knowing the limits. Your life and work end at the entrance of your workplace.

You would have had an odd day in your office, result of which should not be reflected to your family.

Also your workplace is not the one where you discuss your family issues, not everyone are interested in knowing that, which I understood in a hard way. Also there are few who are always ready to play with your emotions.

Time Management:

         

Recently I came across a video which glorifies an 8-8-8 rule for managing your work and life.

First 8 hours is for the work which earns you money to satisfy your needs, second 8 hours is for the healthy sleep in a day and third 8 hours is for family, friends, hobby, and hygiene. 

WORK AND LIFE IS THE BALANCE SHEET THAT EVERYONE SHOULD LEARN TO TALLY

Managing this third 8 hours of the day is where your maturity level lies and also determines what you will achieve in later part of your life.

Be fixed to your rules:

Now I assume that you would have made up your mind to follow some points but that is not where it ends. You should not be breaking the rules of yours no matter what the reason is.

YOU NEED TO STAND UP FOR YOURSELF AS NONE WILL DO IT FOR YOU

Be frank on deadlines in work, as you are the one who knows your capabilities. Manage your work in such a way that you would meet the deadlines by working for what you get paid.

Success Simplified

SUCCESS IS THE WARMTH THAT YOU ACHE FOR IN THIS COLD LIFE

Achieving success is not a matter of just few good days, it’s a prolonged period of being where you want to be.

Since Success cannot be attained overnight, following few little things could make the path to success bit easy.

SET GOALS

To be successful there needs to be a series of simple and easy to achieve goals. Said so, don’t go for a long term goal because setting up a long term goal means you would start dreaming, which as in my previous writing Puppets Of Few, hinders your growth in the path of achieving your goal.

Also short term goals will be easy to achieve and also it gives a much needed positivity to move further in your path.

If possible avoid any materialistic goals, because you won’t be satisfied on your achievement as there will always be a material superior to what you have.

Have multiple short term goals at a time, because if you water many seeds at a time then probability of getting a good harvest will be more.

IDEATION

Once setting your goals now ideate them in such a way that you could find the ultimatum, also stop finding any excuses in your ideals.

IDEATION WITHOUT EXECUTION IS A DELUSION

Ideals and ideation differs from one another so don’t try to imitate others and once ideated then try your best to execute no matter whatever the hindrances are.

SHADOWING

Shadow your negative thoughts like it’s not worth enough, I am not worth enough.

YOU AREN’T A LOSER WHEN OTHERS SAY SO BUT YOU

Goals are not to be discussed with others, because your goals could seem illogical to the next person. Be a self-reviewer to avoid others pointing at your mistakes.

BE ALONE

Being said so, try to be alone when you are executing your ideas. Your ideas are the path for only your success and none can help you in that.

Your success depends on what you do when you are alone. Being in a company would create another path which would be difficult for you to cope with.

EMBRACE FAILURES

Always be aware that on tour de success you could face failure, don’t get scared of them instead just embrace them as you would do your loved ones. If you are facing failures you really are on right path.

SUCCESS IS A TESTIMONY OF WHAT YOU HAVE DONE WHEN EVERYONE ELSE SAID YOU FAILED

Without any failures you won’t be having a dramatic trek to success, without which you can’t dramatize your life once you have achieved the goal.

PERSISTENCE

Finally stand in your decision, whatever the hindrance be don’t deviate yourself from the path that you think would fetch you success.

DON'T STAGNATE

Once you have reached your first goal don't stop yourself from moving further, rather get another target as you can't be there in one place for too long.

SUCCESS IS NOT A DESTINATION, ITS JUST A PATH WITH MORE DIFFICULTIES

First 6 Minutes of Your Mornings

Are mornings any greater than evenings? Yes, they really are.

Time you wake up daily in the morning whether  5 AM or 10 AM, is whole different concept, but what every morning you wake up and do in the first 6 minutes matter a lot.

Life doesn’t happen to you instead it happens for you.

First 6 minutes of your morning are the fertilizers for your life, higher the quality better will be the yield of your life.

START YOUR MORNINGS WITH THE MIND THAT COULD ILLUMINATE YOUR LIFE

BE OPTIMISTIC:

First up, when you are out of your bed start with a smile no matter what negativity you got the previous day. This is an optimistic way of starting your day.

Do self mapping to find the positives from the negatives of the day before.

BE SELFISH:

Morning is the time when you really need to be selfish for yourself to get much out of your life. ‘I AM’ is the biggest of being selfish.

Wider your ‘I AM’ the more selfish you are and more selfish you are, the more you could yield from your life.

Grab some positive ‘I AMs’ like I am achieving, I am strong, I am willful, I am doing great, according to the interest you got recently. Note them down until you learn something in your new task that excited you.

Rewind why you took up the task and what interests you in that, so that you are aware of the correctness of your path. 

Being said so don’t have too much of positivity, because it could make you lazy, know the ‘Being Selfish limit’.

ALWAYS INHALE THE SMELL OF POSSIBILITY IN THE MORNING!!!

NEGATIVITY AT TIMES HELPS:

Next up criticize yourself to some extend to avoid others criticizing you. Have some negative ‘I AM’ that stops from progressing further like I am slow, I am not right.

Vaccinations containing germs are injected to increase your body’s immunity, likewise you need to criticize yourself to shape yourself up.

AS PROTEIN IS FOR HUMAN BODY, SO IS CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM FOR LIFE

Important thing in being bit negative is, after that small self-criticizing session don’t ever criticize yourself at any point of the time in a day.

SELF COMPLIMENTS:

Finally compliment yourself for what you did until now. You can’t expect others to compliment you when none knows what you are up to.

Bang!! First 6 minutes of your morning is well completed. Now you would have fueled the most important inner urge to achieve something in the task you have taken into you.

PUPPETS OF FEW

Are We Puppets?

MASTERS OF BEING PUPPETS:

 Do you know that we all are the puppets in some others' show? 

 How many of us know that we have been made to believe in what others want us to be? 

 What if I say that famous quotes make ourselves less used rather than motivating us? 

We are in 21st century where not only we need to upgrade ourselves but also the quotes of previous century need a revamp.

A Dreamer Aren't You?

ARE WE USED TO LIES?

From childhood we would have heard of a quote ‘DREAM UNTIL YOU ACHIEVE’, but none said what we would achieve, Our fullest potential or what we think is our fullest potential?

ROAD LESS TRAVELED:

Dreaming would have been a great idea when there was a ROAD LESS TRAVELED as Robert Frost thought in 1916, but now all the roads that look less traveled are mimicked so, with footprints being erased by the people as they walk through to avoid others following them.

Expecting Two Paths In Life?

 WOWness of a person lies in how he avoids other from following him. Wonders of the world will no more be wonders if everyone got to find how it got into existence.

         

Life Is a One Way Traffic

      

Just for a change stop dreaming and take the world as it is. There is no more different paths diverging from a point in our life, it’s a straight path that we travel through with different houses on either side for us to explore things within

Being said so, won’t that be boring if we have explored everything in a house and still we stay in the same house.

       

Steve With Right Jobs

If Steve Jobs had dreamt of making APPLE only a computer manufacturing company then there would have been a chance of him failing long back rather he stopped dreaming and APPLE broke in as consumer electronics manufacturer. 

Stopped dreaming, that is where according to me the success of APPLE lies. 

In interviews Steve would have asked us to dream but actually he stopped dreaming which every one of us failed to understand. Aren’t we the puppets of few?

Puppets Maybe

STOP DREAMING REALLY?

Without dreaming would we all become a vehicle without tires? No, if we are to stop dreaming then we could see that the houses in our path are all kept open for us to explore.

WHAT NEXT?

So what next, without dreaming? How to achieve more in our life? Well there are two choices you need to make before getting to a conclusion whether to dream or not to.

King Of One?

Jack Of All?

KING OF ONE OR JACK OF ALL?

What would be your choice King Of One or Jack Of All? 

Previously being king of one is what everyone needed but at present in a highly digitized world being king of one is called as a stagnant person.

So being jack of all is the obvious choice you are left to choose with, if you want yourselves to be upgraded to the current situation.

HOW TO BE JACK OF ALL?

It requires you to stop dreaming to be Jack of All, say if you are working in a firm and you dream of attaining the highest position in that firm then congrats you made yourself a king of one instead if you stop dreaming you would be having many choices to take while you move further up in your life, even a choice that would be much greater than what you stopped dreaming about.

If you dream of being in the top of a hierarchy and attain it, then You will stay there until they find some alternative for you, if they are to find an alternative then you haven’t achieved what you dreamt of and also lost many things on the path while focusing only on one dream.

Being Laid Back?

LAID BACK OR EXCITED?

Would you choose being in the top of one thing and get laid back in there or being excited in one of the many things that you do.

Being Excited?

I probably would go with being excited rather than being laid back, because if you are laid back then the position would no more have a benefit for you. 

I am person who wants to be excited in everything that I do rather than being stagnant in same place.

HOW TO BE EXCITED?

For person like me who doesn’t find excitement in only one thing, please stop dreaming. Dreaming about your future will make you blind from seeing many other things available around you.

Try everything that is open for you in your path, if you are to feel excited about one thing then spend some extra time of your life in that. Also make sure that you don’t waste one extra moment in thing that doesn’t excite you in first attempt.

Usain The Bolt

Usain Bolt, the fastest man alive on the earth hasn’t dreamt of becoming a sprinter, first sports he got interest was cricket but without dreaming of becoming a cricketer he also tried athletic events which excited him much, so he had spent much of his time in becoming an athlete.


we the current generation people at least try not to dream of one thing in course of which being ignorant of many other opportunities that could probably excite you much more than what you dreamt of.


'As dreaming is for 20th century people, so is living our life to the fullest for 21st century people'. 

P.S.

All these are just my opinion about dreams and my thoughts on how things might have been. Well people who still want to dream about their future, all the best for achieving more greatness and for the people who think the other way around like me, come lets speak out our weird thoughts!!!