Life's Juggling Act Balancing Work and Family #family #familyvlog #money #health #motivation

Is there anything like work life balance; or we just pick up this task and drop the other one for another task as an endless cycle...?

Yesterday I had an interaction with a group of youth who are joining university in a few months. The topic of our discussion during the mentorship session was about dating and relationships. Later on after the discussion, one young lady told me that she has had a very strained relationship with her father, reason being that he has been totally unavailable for the family. They have never had a conversation as a father and daughter at all besides those platonic conversations about school fees and her studies.

In all organisations, there those employees who say yes to everything, agree to every thing, are available to work late into the night, are available over the weekends even if there is no much work that requires them to do so, are visible and easily volunteer themselves...indeed these are the ones marked for the next opportunity for promotions, recognition and reward. That's just the reality of the corporate world.

But life is a rollercoaster of tradeoffs. You trade your time for money especially if you are employed. You either choose to work late and over the weekends at the cost of not having time for your family, friends and social life or choose to give the employer the negotiated time then have time with your family and friends. Each of these choices come with consequences and rewards. There is a cost incurred and a possible reward for every trade off.

The difference is this: some choices will give you a reward, yet others will yield serious consequences. If one day your children tell you that you were never available to guide them, especially if they make wrong choices in life, that's a consequence of your choices. On the other hand you will be enjoying the rewards of the promotion you got at the cost of not being available to guide your children in life.

But above all remember this; rewards are not permanent but some consequences can be permanent.

Just like someone said that burn out is not a badge of honour!
Remember that burnout is a true consequence of not considering your health as you give your all in your job. Filing to take care of your health can have permanent health implications putting you at a high risk of serious lifestyle diseases.

But the reality is that those employees who have tried this kind of balance in many traditional corporate organisations have missed promotions, have stagnated, been bad mouthed and called lazy...the truth is, you better be called names by outsiders rather than the people you will go back to when or if that job is gone.

When that title is taken away, or when you are laid off from that organisation, to who shall you go...you will go home, but maybe you are a stranger in that home. What kind of home have you established?

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