How I Manage Work Life Balance
How to achieve work-life balance? Like I said before, there is no perfect recipe to it. However, as a mother who also does a corporate job, I have received following...
How to achieve work-life balance? Like I said before, there is no perfect recipe to it. However, as a mother who also does a corporate job, I have received following...
The question I get asked most of the times when attending any corporate meeting is ‘how I balance work and life?’ I am sure a lot of mothers out here would have been asked this question. Women are expected to juggle both work and life beautifully. So, my answer to this question has never been short or crisp. For there are so many ‘unsung’ heroes who support me to achieve this balance. Let me try to summarize the suggestions I received from my mentors while returning to work from maternity leave.
What is work-life balance? What is the downside of poor work life balance? How can anyone achieve this so called ‘balance’ in life?
Let’s look at the first question. What is work life balance? It is about balancing the time taken for work and time taken for family, personal development, etc. There is no perfect balance, in other words, there is no perfect recipe to achieve this balance. However, there are several examples and stories one can find on the internet about how women achieve this.
That begs for the second question. What is the downside of poor work life balance?
Simple and straight-forward answer. Increased stress levels for the woman who is trying to juggle the two. With improper or poor work-life balance, one cannot be productive both in work and outside work (while managing a family, for example). It may seem for the woman that she is working long hours, with less or no time for herself.
Here is the third question. How to achieve work-life balance? Like I said before, there is no perfect recipe to it. However, as a mother who also does a corporate job, I have received following suggestions to achieve work-life balance which is would like to share with future mommies and new mothers returning to work.
It is totally in your hands to be successful both in work and in personal life. All it requires is plan, prioritize, seek help, make incremental changes and work according to the plan. You cannot achieve all at once. Remember, Rome was not built in one day. The above steps are just a guideline, you can have your own way to achieve this balance (depending on your work and domestic situation). I am sure you will and rock both your work and personal life!
Vidhya is a full-time working mother. The time she is not working, she likes spending time with her family. A movie buff, she loves watching movies and binge-watching series. She also secretly wishes to be a writer one day. Connect with her on LinkedIn
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