How to balance your work and life.

1. Choose the correct line of work. Your profile of work holds the most important spotlight when it comes to maintaining the balance. If the work that you do is what you love, making that balance is a way easier job. Choose to do what interests you, triggers you intellectually. Every work comes with its set of difficulties, deadlines and usual confusion. If you love what you do even all these negativity will seem positive aspects of the bigger picture. Always feel satisfied after a day at work even if it was exhausting.

2.Draw a line between professional and personal life. This is a very important thing that we either tend to overlook or stretch. There is a very famous saying "Stretch the elastic only till the extent the elasticity doesn't get lost". Maintain the demarcation and don't overlap. When it is work time, work like crazy, but don't compromise on family time. Remember, name, money, fame and job are all temporary. The only thing constant in all these phases is family and friends. If they get the time, love and attention, you will live a contented life.

3.There is a very thin line of difference between passion and greed. The passion to learn more and be the best is different from working like dogs to get the next promotion or a raise. If there is passion and fire in what you do, your family will respect you. If it is greed of money, power and position, you will loose them somewhere down the race and be left alone, so be passionate but not greedy.

4.Have the proper mindset. It’s all about the perspective. Sometimes just a small change in the way you view things can make a lot of difference. Set your priorities in order. Aim for contentment rather than filling the bank with mindless currency. Go for planned holidays, give a gift to your wife/husband, go for a football game with kids and at the same time put your heart and soul in work during office hours.

5.Look at life beyond professional achievements. Have a list of personal goals and keep striving to achieve them. Personal competency with respect to your family and personal enhancement is as important as professional competency. Keep your loved ones as happy as you try to keep your boss.