The document discusses work-life balance and maintaining a balance between work responsibilities and personal life. It notes that finding a perfect balance is difficult and compromises must often be made. While workaholism can be unhealthy, meaningful and engaging work that provides a sense of purpose is more important than rigidly sticking to work-life balance. Embracing imbalance is a process of learning through experience how to improve balance over time.

1. Happy Woman’s Day
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March 8, 2013
Dr. Sunita Chugh
www.onlastmile.com

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Balance
Work or life?
Work and life?
Work- life balance?
Either – or ?
Tension of balance ?
All ?
Embracing work life ?
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Striving for perfect balance
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Work- Life Balance
Work–life balance is a concept including proper prioritizing between "work“
(career and ambition) and "lifestyle" (health, pleasure, leisure, family and
spiritual development/meditation.
“Work life balance is about the challenges that face individuals when they are
trying to hold paid work and home in domestic life in balance. “
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Work- Life Balance
Work-life balance is about being able to maintain a balance between work
and personal responsibilities on all fronts:
Work and family
Work and personal fulfillment
Work and social and community responsibility
“Work-life balance" was coined to address the unhealthy life choices that
many people were making; they were choosing to neglect other important
areas of their lives such as family, friends, and hobbies in favor of work-
related chores and goals
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Work Life Balance for Women Employees
Can women be both ‘givers of care ‘and ‘ hold careers’?
Often, working women drop out of the work force when they are doing
well, simply because they wanted to stay at home with their children, or
care for an ageing parent.
And then there are women who have
children later in life because they want
to work for reasons of personal
satisfaction or for the money.
So, can a woman have it ALL?
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Juggling activities
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Is it a 50-50 split? Or is a 70-30 split?
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Or is it a seesaw
Balance is elusive and difficult to
maintain.
Compromises are constantly
made, with the scales of balance
shifting along with the
occasional long workday or work
assignment, family obligations,
or any one of a number of life’s
little surprises.
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Why should you embrace Work-Life Imbalance
Workaholics = greedy and selfish people . heart attack .
People die of boredom, psychological conflict and disease. Not hard work.
Is your work meaningful?
work "overload" usually measured without measuring your beliefs and
emotions about work.
Overworking is ONLY possible if you are not having fun at work.
Any amount of work will be dull if you are not engaged .
Time to redefine the work-life balance or at least stop thinking about it.
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Building a case for hard work
Hard Work -Your Most Important Career Weapon
Smart, qualified. Then hard work is only differentiator. Workaholics usually
have higher social status in every society.
ALL achievement in civilization (from art to science to sport) is result of
people who worked a lot harder than others. Also , totally unconcerned
about maintaining work-life balance.
Exceptional achievers live longer, and they pretty much work until their
death.
10 most workaholic nations in the world account for most of the world's
GDP.
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Motivation – Inspiration- Engagement
Engagement : Do what you love and you will love what
you do.
Little bit of meaningless work is a lot worse for you than a great deal of
meaningful work.
Work is like a relationship: Spending a week on a job you hate is as bad as
spending a week with a person you don't like. But when you find the right
job, or the right person, no amount of time is enough.
Between the Bright and Dark Side of Workaholism is ‘engagement’.
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Facebook age
Technology Hasn't Ruined Work-Life Balance—It's
Exposed How Boring Work and Life Used to Be
Technology has not only eliminated the boundaries between work and
life, but also improved both areas.
This is especially true for those of you who find yourselves addicted to your
emails , Facebook, Blackberry, Whats app!
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Work life tension/fusion
Think about your job as a career .
A career provides a higher sense of purpose.
In a job you count number of hours.
Career isn't a 9-5 endeavor.
Dead before retirement ?
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Embracing work-life balance is a process
Scope Getting it right is an iterative
process.
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approach. It is just what and how you do
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Interpret DO----LEARN----DO
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