Live life in happiness rather than live in regrets.
Saksham is a hard-working and very ambitious man who planned his life long before it started. He completed his studies at 24 and started working 168 hours a week to make a perfect living. With good education, a perfect job, and being very focused, he aimed to become a successful entrepreneur by the age of 35. Saksham deeply invested in and fulfilled his career dream and spent a great deal of time on his career and missed the path where he could pursue his hobbies, travel and enjoy many little things which can be enjoyed only at a certain age. Time is what can’t be brought back. Saksham followed the concept of “Do what’s needed to make a living.” He made a living and led a comfortable life, with a job, marriage, kids, a perfect family and a happy retirement life. But at 65, when Saksham looked back, his memories were filled with files and deals.
Saksham missed a life that was filled with the little happy moments with his family and friends, and the major milestones his kids met with. Saksham regrets missing the major chunk of his life.
A learnt scholar once said, “Don’t confuse having a career with having a life.” A perfect career, a loving job, can give career satisfaction, financial stability, and a comfortable life. It also gives stress and takes time away from the most important moments. An amazing life is lost somewhere in the chaos of making a career. Spending a major part of your life in a career, making the best years of your amazing life, is a missed.
Living life will only inspire your work.
Continuous Work life disrupts family time. Prioritising work time over personal life creates conflicts within families and can lead to a very stressful life. Saksham has erased the thin boundary between professional and personal space. He became a very successful entrepreneur at a very young age and built a stable future for the family, but also faced emotional instability because of an unhealthy work-life balance. A famous psychologist quoted, “Inner balance between work, love, and play is the key to a complete life”.
Respecting the boundary between work and life will help in maintaining a balance.
Work to live, not live to work.
A balance of work and life is the better path to a happy and lively future. Professional and personal lives are the two parallel roads that need to be planned well so that they can successfully pass the hurdles and have a balanced relationship. This balanced relationship reduces stress and promotes greater well-being, high-quality results at work, and, most importantly of all, contentment and self-satisfaction.
A healthy work and life balance is achieved by prioritising time, making some personal time with family and friends, pursuing hobbies, setting strict work timing, and adhering to them. Put health before work; plan a vacation with family at least once a year. These changes will not only give a positive change to the professional and personal relationships but will also result in your personality makeover, thus reflecting in the output of your work.
Truly .. we forget to live in the rat race!!!
True tat!!! Fact of life we forget to live and the years are just past gone!!’