balancing personal and professional lives

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Yash k Mahanta | Contributor-Level 9

2012-10-27 03:05:09

Balancing personal & professional life is very difficult to manage but if we can manage this once no one can disturb this balance.

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Manmeet Kaur | Guide-Level 12

2012-10-04 16:24:03

I would like to invite Kumar Ravi Singh Gomtis Corner Dr MohsinKhan Dr. Tabrez Ahmad Dr. Sudhiranjan Dey and other experts to share their expert views.

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Arvind Joshi | Contributor-Level 9

2012-10-04 14:51:40

All of us have seen a young mother with an infant which is just one month old, or maybe less. When does the infant go to sleep ? Anytime. And when does it wake up? Again, anytime. So when does the ever vigilant young mother sleep? She adjusts to the cycle of wakefulness and sleep with the infant. As and when the child sleeps, she also takes a quick nap. As a result, she is always ready to take up her duties towards the infant with renewed energies. Same type of strategy is needed for balancing our personal and professional lives. As and when a professional task is there, we should be ready to handle it effectively. As and when it is so

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All of us have seen a young mother with an infant which is just one month old, or maybe less. When does the infant go to sleep ? Anytime. And when does it wake up? Again, anytime. So when does the ever vigilant young mother sleep? She adjusts to the cycle of wakefulness and sleep with the infant. As and when the child sleeps, she also takes a quick nap. As a result, she is always ready to take up her duties towards the infant with renewed energies. Same type of strategy is needed for balancing our personal and professional lives. As and when a professional task is there, we should be ready to handle it effectively. As and when it is solved, we must be in an unwinding mode. For office-goers, luckily, it is an 8-hour ordeal, after which there is time for unwinding. Unfortunately, not for the young mother, who has a more challenging type of adjustment to make.
When we go to work ( or work from our home office), we HAVE to devote ourselves to work in totality, so that the desired targets are achieved well in time. This causes a lot of stress and strain, twisting and turning, and winding up of our whole system, so that, at the end of the day, we need an UNWINDING. In philosophical terms, this can be equated with living a whole life full of duties and obligations, and then getting old and weary, then dying one day. Thereafter, taking a rebirth, fully fresh and with a new physical body, ready to take up the worldly challenges once again.
Thus, when we work, we must have a program to unwind ourselves periodically, so that we are ready for the next session of work with the same set of energies. One of the simplest strategies is---that when you leave your desk, leave the office thoughts and worries inside the drawer on your right hand side of your table. Go home with problems of how to enjoy the evening (alcohol not included), which friend to meet, what must happen in upcoming TV serial, what are the latest spicy type of news, what we are going to eat tonight, and what sort of overall entertainment is on way.
This is how we are going to unwind in the evening, so that we get a sound sleep of 7 hours, free of office worries. Consequently, when we get up in the morning, we are fresh and mentally prepared to face the challenges that are going to come up.

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All of us have seen a young mother with an infant which is just one month old, or maybe less. When does the infant go to sleep ? Anytime. And when does it wake up? Again, anytime. So when does the ever vigilant young mother sleep? She adjusts to the cycle of wakefulness and sleep with the infant. As and when the child sleeps, she also takes a quick nap. As a result, she is always ready to take up her duties towards the infant with renewed energies. Same type of strategy is needed for balancing our personal and professional lives. As and when a professional task is there, we should be ready to handle it effectively. As and when it is solved, we must be in an unwinding mode. For office-goers, luckily, it is an 8-hour ordeal, after which there is time for unwinding. Unfortunately, not for the young mother, who has a more challenging type of adjustment to make. When we go to work ( or work from our home office), we HAVE to devote ourselves to work in totality, so that the desired targets are achieved well in time. This causes a lot of stress and strain, twisting and turning, and winding up of our whole system, so that, at the end of the day, we need an UNWINDING. In philosophical terms, this can be equated with living a whole life full of duties and obligations, and then getting old and weary, then dying one day. Thereafter, taking a rebirth, fully fresh and with a new physical body, ready to take up the worldly challenges once again. Thus, when we work, we must have a program to unwind ourselves periodically, so that we are ready for the next session of work with the same set of energies. One of the simplest strategies is---that when you leave your desk, leave the office thoughts and worries inside the drawer on your right hand side of your table. Go home with problems of how to enjoy the evening (alcohol not included), which friend to meet, what must happen in upcoming TV serial, what are the latest spicy type of news, what we are going to eat tonight, and what sort of overall entertainment is on way. This is how we are going to unwind in the evening, so that we get a sound sleep of 7 hours, free of office worries. Consequently, when we get up in the morning, we are fresh and mentally prepared to face the challenges that are going to come up.

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Adar Consultancy | Contributor-Level 7

2012-10-01 19:28:12

Good discussion @Gautam Joshi. I feel that you can only give 100% at work if you give sometime to maintain ur own mental sanity. How u do that is entirely upto u. e.g i have a friend who is in a very good position but does some excellent glass paintings. it intially started as a way to destress when office drove her mad, to relieve some childhood memories when she took a long weekend off. Slowly with lots of feedback from friends, she started selling it (along with doing her FT work). I know couples who have highly stressfull jobs in the private sector but who are active members of a troupe. Similarly i know people who actively practis

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Manmeet Kaur | Guide-Level 12

2012-10-01 17:10:31

I would like to invite Arvind Joshi245 ARVIND SURYAVANSHI amitesh saha Amit.Biranje Bhavesh Vidyaben Joshi Adar Consultancy to share their views.

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Manmeet Kaur | Guide-Level 12

2012-10-01 17:07:44

Good discussion initiated by Gautam Joshi .
Well, I strictly believe in 'All work and no play will make Jack a dull boy' . So, for me, balance in personal and professional is highly important. Both should not be mixed. I believe that every individual (specially officials witnessing strenuous work environment) must find some time out and get involved in the social life as well because this balance will not hamper their growth, both professionally and personally.
So, the funda is to 'Work Hard. Party Harder.' :) What say ?

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PADMA RAM | Contributor-Level 7

2012-09-27 17:33:15

never take office work at home and reverse. Give times to your self and social life also enjoy the sports , picnic and parties . it will help in balancing the life

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Amit Mishra

2012-09-27 17:01:28

Call center, BPO, Drivers(Bus, Truck, Rail, Aeroplane), Mine worker, all the people who work in real time systems. i think they lead very challanging lives in India specially
If we go to any europian country or america these types of people are well taken care by their govt since they have good polices to secure such people.
I give a simple equation here:
Corrupt Govt >> Price rise >> currency devaluation >> economic gaps >> competetion >> extra efforts >> Un managed or Stressfull life
Thus we are unable to enjoy our lives.

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Amit Mishra

2012-09-27 16:54:30

I think social life or personal life is not about family, friends and relatives but it is to do with one's mental health. Mental peace is equally important.
Now a days situation at workplace has changed drastically when you compare the time 15 yrs ago.
now a days every single business wants to go global and which is why prepares itself for the competetion and thus burdon of high performance comes into play for every employee in the org.
We spend more than required hrs in office and left with very little time for the self and family.
This seems like some kind of Race that we are in and its never ending.
A number of people are facinated by IT

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Commented by

aru chopra | Guide-Level 11

2012-09-27 15:44:26

It is understood that we work hard for earning good and make a better saving for the future. But have we ever thought that this extra money causes stress and hampers our health.so what is the use of it?
Amit Mishra38551 I would request your participation.

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Commented by

shaban | Guide-Level 11

2012-09-26 16:02:05

In my opinion there should always be a balance between personal and professional life.

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Aneeket barua Manager (Product Operation)- Infoedge India Ltd. | Guide-Level 11

2012-09-26 16:00:40

Well a very nice discussion initiated by Gautam Joshi .
Well in order to make both Personal and professional life successful, one needs to prioritize between the two. If the two are mixed together then it can lead to unhealthy personal and professional life.
I would request Dr. Sudhiranjan Dey Dr.Goutam Chatterjee Dr. Shivanshu Bhadoria Gomtis Corner Govind_S Nikhlesh Mathur Arvind Joshi245 to share their expertise.
Thanks!

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shaban | Guide-Level 11

2012-09-26 15:59:57

Gautam Joshi absolutely in the present day scenario taking out time for own leisure activities is vary challenging, but again giving time to self is also very important, because if a individual is stressed then he/ she may not be able to give their 100% at work.

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aru chopra | Guide-Level 11

2012-09-26 13:57:12

It is always good to be faithful and sincere towards your work and also be more determined at work place so that one can work with utmost concentration for success.
Likewise the same parameters can get us lead happy and healthy personal life. When we leave from work.we should leave it completely and look forward for a peaceful environment at home and same goes when we start from home for office.
It is very important to strive a balance between the two lives and being social can help us to be more energetic at work as it helps curb the monotonous at work place.

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shaban | Guide-Level 11

2012-09-26 13:56:51

A very good discussion started, in my opinion one of the finest way to balance the personal and professional life to participate in the activities which interest you the most in leisure time.

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