This document discusses work-life balance and provides tips for achieving it. It begins by defining work-life balance as prioritizing between career and personal life. It notes that balance looks different for everyone and will change over time based on life circumstances. Several principles for balance are outlined, including learning to simplify tasks, destress, take care of health, share responsibilities, and slow down periodically. Specific tips include saying no, delegating work, prioritizing tasks, exercising, spending time with family, and maintaining self-care activities. The document emphasizes that finding a perfect balance is rare and the nature of balance is unique to each individual.

1. Work Life
Balance
A key to balanced life!

2. Meaning
Work–life balance is a broad concept including proper
prioritizing between “work” (career and ambition) on one
hand and “life” (Health, pleasure, leisure, family and
spiritual development) on the other.

3. Striving for a perfect balance?
Is it 50-50 split?
Is it 70 - 30 Split?
Or is it Seesaw?

4. Does not mean an equal balance.
Trying to schedule an equal number of hours for each of your various work and
personal activities is usually unrewarding and unrealistic.
Will vary over time, often on a daily basis.
The right balance for you today will probably be different for you tomorrow. The
right balance for you when you are single will be different when you marry.

5. There is no perfect, one-size fits all, balance
you should be striving for.
– The best work-life balance is different for each of us because we all have
different priorities and different lives.
– An effective work-life balance definition has two key everyday concepts that
are relevant to each of us. They are daily
Achievement and Enjoyment

6. Work Life balance is
Achievement & Enjoyment in
Work
Self Friends
Family

7. Need for work life balance
“No one can have everything and do everything at the same time” -Oprah Winfrey
The inability to balance work and family demands has been linked to:
• reduced work performance
• increased absenteeism
• lower commitment
• poor morale

8. Wheel of Life

9. Sample Wheel of Life

10. Simple principles
– At work you can create your own best Work-Life Balance by making sure you
not only Achieve, but also reflect the joy of the job, and the joy of life, every
day.
– If nobody pats you on the back, pat yourself on the back. And help others to do
the same.
– When you are a person that not only gets things done, but also enjoys the
doing, it attracts people to you.
– They want you on their team and they want to be on your team.

11. Remember
It is nothing
but giving yourself PERMISSION to have more integration between
your professional and personal life.
Let's see some best practices towards WLB

12. 1. Simplify
– Learn to say “NO”
– No one is indispensable
– Stay at HOME. Listen to music
– CHILL OUT

13. 2. De - Stress
– Stress – higher levels of work load
– But “Take it EASY” else High BP!!
– So De-Stress
– Take up:
– Yoga
– Painting
– Mediation
– Deep Breathing!

14. 3. Be a Child
– Read Fairy Tales to a child
– Take a pet
– Go on holiday
– An impulse outing with family
– Eat cotton candy, ice cone
– NO one’s looking!!

15. 4. Share the Load
– In family, divide the tasks like Dusting
– In Work place: DELEGATE
“Don’t do their fishing for them, teach them how to fish”

16. 5. Slow Down
– Do Not get pulled from different directions
– One step at a time.
– Let go to see light, discover new ways to get things done.

17. 6. Take Care of your Health
– Take a walk, Go to Yoga or Gym
– Take up Sport, Pet, Hobby
– Well balanced food
– Please SLEEP on time
“All work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy”

18. 7. Don’t Postpone
– Never Procrastinate
– Avoidance takes up more energy than actually doing it

19. 8. Have a positive Approach
– Look around you. So many things to be grateful about.
– Make a list of things you are thankful for…

20. 9. Take Charge
– Plan Ahead.
– Long Term
– Medium Term
– Short Term

21. Work Life Triangle
Work
Relationship Self-Care
(what we do, careers, housework, chores, etc)
(spiritual, physical, intellectual, emotional,
health, wellness, exercise)
(personal, friendships, partners,
spouses, children)

22. Work
Work is not where you go but what you do!
So how do we go about achieving the Work-Life Balance ?
No cookie cutter solution. Each person has his/ her own formula defining the
composition of career, family, friends and self into their integrated whole.
Focus on whatever u are doing
Dream
Be Selfish Yourself First
Be organized
Make lists
Prioritize
Don't procrastinate
Be flexible
Don't be a slave to your e-mail or to phone calls
Be forgiving, especially of yourself
Set boundaries and learn to say no

23. Relationships
Don’t try to soldier along on your own without asking for help … it can only result in
a sense of isolation, martyrdom and exhaustion.
⁻ Don’t let that day come for your loved ones without telling them what they
mean to you
⁻ Value the relationships
⁻ Taking the time to connect with those you love will bring you true happiness
⁻ Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement...all
success... all achievement in real life grows.

24. Self-Care
– Take time for yourself
– Take more Frequent though short breaks
– Establish good, supportive relationships, both at work and home
– Try the Home working (tele working) model to address those pressing personal/
family needs
Worry, but only to the point it helps

25. Some add-on tips
Learn how to say
YES as well as
NO
Establish your
ABSENCE as well
as your
PRESENCE
Don't get
distracted. Focus
on ONE thing at a
time
Determine your
TASKS as well as
your PRIORITIES
Work until your
TIME IS UP as
well as until your
TASK IS DONE
Bring some of
your HOME TO
WORK well as
some of your
WORK TO HOME
Seek to INTEGRATE
YOUR
PROFESSIONAL AND
PERSONAL
ACTIVITIES as well as
to SEPARATE WORK
AND PLAY

26. Facts of WLB
– Finding a ‘perfect’ balance between work and life is rare.
– The nature of that balance is different for every person, and changes over time
for each person.
– So one shouldn’t strive for perfection, but to constantly be aware of making
choices that will benefit all aspects of our lives.

27. Final Thought on the Work/Life
Balance
In the end, the key word is balance.
– Find the right balance that works for you
– Celebrate your successes and don’t dwell on your failures.
– Life is a process .. and so is striving for balance in your life.

28. Questions?

29. Thank you!
Have a great day!