A THOUGHT FOR NOW - THE ELUSIVITY OR ELUSIVENESS OF ACHIEVING 'WORK-LIFE BALANCE.' P.2

Putting yourself out on a limb by over-committing yourself might lessen your chances of achieving good 'work-life balance.'

As we humans begin to become more conscious of our essential humanity and, ipso facto, our own mortality, it is only natural or logical that we should want to live and appreciate our expendable lives more fully and enjoyably. We probably spend more time applying intellect to contemplating what purpose there is to life, to living, separate from the significance we give it, and that which it seems to have, in terms of what transpires around us.

And so it is only logical that we  should become more preoccupied with what has become know as establishing 'the right work-life balance.' Which essentially means that we should endeavour not to be working too much and 'living and enjoyable life' too little.

Finding more time to do more enjoyable things.

I can imaging some people forming the view that it makes no sense talking about achieving 'a work-life balance', especially when some people might appear not to have any or only little control over how much work they do and for how long. Yes, it really is the case that some sectors of the population will have or seem to have little or no control over how much of their time is spent work work working.

More time to appreciate and nurture beauty

So, in considering the issue of 'work-life balance', it is only right that we should formulate the discussion in the context of applying it to people who have substantial control over their way of living and its cost.  This is indeed the problem that many people will encounter; the fact that their styles of living have resulted in them relinquishing too much control over its cost. 

How we live, you see, is not too unlike how we, as humans, 'fall in love' with each other. We make emotional attachments to our way of living, in much the same way as we make them with our partners and members of our family. The result is that we become somewhat 'alienated' from ourselves, and relinquish significant amount of our individual self to those whom we love, or to the things we love, such as our particular style of living.

Think it over; what kind of living is really best for you, and are you willing to pay the cost?

Consequently, just as how a man or a woman might be strongly attached to his partner and/or family, and be motivated and committed to 'do anything and everything' for them, so are some humans committed to 'do anything and everything to' maintain their style of living; irrespective of 'work-life balance', which they would be prepared to sacrifice.

This tells us that, in order to achieve a good or reasonable 'work-life balance', it is crucial that our style of living needs to be conducive towards it, which means that either we have already got this conducive style of living and just needs to sustain it, or that we have to make some fundamental readjustments in our existing style of living.

Endeavour to have an enjoyable living, but be minded of the alternative cost of maintaining it, now and in the future.

To be continued