Balancing the ways of life

quality of the art of life to see that everything in life is going on in the right combination and direction. Robin Abrahams, in ‘Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life’, says successful people carefully combine work and home so as not to lose themselves, their loved ones or their foothold on success.

A more interesting observation comes from Gary Keller, “Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls — family, health, friends, integrity — are made of glass. If you drop any of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.”

The highlight here is on the importance of achieving a fine balance between your profession and home. One who has a happy family life will invariably have a happy professional life. You may have a great job with a fat income, but that does not give you the right to ignore your personal life. If you do that, sooner or later, you will meet with ruins. And then you will have neither a good life nor a good home. That is why we are told by our gurus time and again that we will never be satisfied by work alone if we don’t have a satisfied life at home.

A true balance between life and work, says Michael Thomas Sunnarborg, comes when you start knowing that your life activities are integrated, not separated. In other words, life has to be treated in a holistic manner with the right proportion of all activities at home and office.