In doing this blog and reading several others relating to the Work life balance topic, I realize that many people have the same problems that I have and we are all just struggling to keep it together. But who are we keeping it together for? Is it society telling us that we need to achieve and be superwoman and neglect everything else? Or is it that if we can’t do all these things, then we are looked upon as not being enough. When will the stigma end? We need to follow the lead of those countries that believe that people need to have time outside of work to have a life (Copenhagen) (Kjerulf, 2014). These countries know that the value of a fully engaged person is the best person to help the organization meet their bottom line and therefore, makes for a happier workplace. In North American, the expectation is the more you work the better your progress. What is the end goal? Do you work yourself to death, and end up not enjoying life as you are too focused on work. In reading this article I fully feel that North America needs to start embracing the fact the people need to have time outside of work and need to create that balance in order to have full life. There will be no work life balance is all things are not taken into consideration. For me, that is a message that has been driven home by my recent losses of family, who were always working to achieve more but not having enough time to spend enjoying life and those around them. I don’t want that to be my legacy, I choose to take a different path.
Something to Ponder:
What is your path going to be?
Read this article – what are your thoughts?
Can you see yourself doing anything differently after reading this article?
Each and every single person is facing different types of problems on work-life balance. Therefore, we are maintaining a good balance in between work and life; so that, we can easily able to maintain a good balance to spend time in personal as well as professional life.
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