De-mystifying Work-Life Balance …

Posted by rhodz on February 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Work-Life Balance has become some kind of a clichÃ©, and the more it figures in our talks, the less we seem to have of it.

To begin with, the name itself is a misnomer.Â Â Work is a part of life, how can we balance a part with the whole and is it not vain and futile to even try to do that ?Â Â What is actually aimed at is a Work Life-Personal Life Balance.Â Â But even that becomes unnecessary when we have
the right attitudes, rooted in right values, which create right perceptions. We do not need to get the happy balance in our lives, we merely have to remove the unhappy imbalance that is there in our minds. Stephen Covey knows it when he says, ‘the way we look at the problems, is the problem’.

Imagine senior managers / executives being taken out to some natural resort and made to play some childish games, to develop team-spirit ; or people writing slogans to develop the so-called Work-Life Balance !Â Â We should realize that so long as people do not get along with themselves (which they won’t until they take time to know and like themselves), they can never get along well with others.Â Â It is all about Self-awareness.Â Â It is also a major clue to the problem of rising attrition.