Work - Life Balance

Ever wondered what is work-life balance? There can be many aspects to it in my view!

In the most simple terms if you can get into your office cab at 6:30 PM and leave some unanswered mails in Outlook, for tomorrow, you are said to have achieved that.

On the contrary, what we fail to understand is that work-life balance is when you can let go of the stress at work and not let it bother you time and again when you reach home. It is when you are happy to be back to work, realizing that your priority inbox will be populated with fresh queries and the normal ones can wait to be finished as you day passes by.

Work-Life balance makes us feel happy in our hearts and that is how we can prosper in the job that we do. Many a times, at home, we are too occupied with what happened in office and we fail to understand that come what may happen at work, you may never get a life back again. You may get another job, you may get a better boss, you may be payed much more than now, but will an strained marital relationship be made any better? Will you be able to avoid a Divorce? Will you be able to lead a harmonious life if you do not focus on your work-life balance? A kid waiting at home for you has much more demands and you might feel too exhausted to fulfill them all but still that one day in your child's life will matter than a day at work.

No, do not get me wrong by over assuming that work is not important! It certainly is!! The point that I am trying to make is much more that the text above. Reading between lines now will help. Work in the best possible manner so that your day can be efficient and effective. Work as if you need to finish all that is possible today till 6:30PM. Cos after you get into that 6:30 cab back home, you kid wants your attention, your spouse needs your time and you certainly want time to catch up on that news item that you missed in the morning.

Above all, you are working so hard to make your family's life better.

Bangalore Vs Delhi

With the IPL season having just passed by, it is natural to misinterpret this post as a comparison between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Daredevils. This post is a personal view of both the cities and all instances mentioned here are true to the best of my experience and knowledge. 

Alphabetically, Bangalore comes before Delhi and in the dictionary of etiquette, Bangaloreans leave behind the Delhiites far behind. The simply clad, South Indians use dustbins, do not pass on comments to people passing by(at least I have not heard any yet in my stay of 4 years which is same as that of Delhi/NCR), follow traffic signals, wear seat belts and helmets, purchase bus tickets and do not keep fooling people by giving them the wrong road directions.

Here in Bangalore, I have seen women conductors, confidently shoving their way on the bus.It feels good to see that. You see women controlling the traffic and it shows that at least one more job opportunity has been created for the fairer sex.

No rickshaw wala follows you here till home after 6 in the evening and even at 10 in the night, u feel safe in Bangalore.

Bus wallas don't make you hop in the wrong bus..

Enough of Bangalore ki kahani!! 

When in Delhi, you can have the best food at the best price. Shopping is a sport in the capital city. The clean and the broad roads, the smooth flyovers add to the glamour...But as very rightly said in a movie, Purani Dilli mein Nai Sadak aur Nai Dilli mein Purana Kila,  Daryaganj mein Darya ka aur Pahadganj mein Pahad ka namo nishaan nai hai..

Delhi gave me education and Bangalore an opportunity to use all that I had learnt. All in all, it was because of Delhi/NCR that I could come to Bangalore. 

the calm breeze.......

of the Indian Institute of Science, the huge trees, the greenery, the 'n' parallel roads, the short cuts, the chirping birds, the big bee hives, the departments, Molecular Biology, Genetic Engineering, Aerospace, Astrophysics, Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies, the all time busy tea board, the B Mess, Kabini, Nesara, and the people around..

There are many other such things which can be listed and described about this institute. 

It is "the" place if you want to get into research..not the market research but the one that academicians do around the world...research that ultimately results into papers published in the journals of world fame..

Had it not been a PGDM from Nagpur, and a close friend in IISc, I would have never got an opportunity of pursuing a research from here..

The Department of Management Studies, looks old and messy...but it holds a decades old history of making successful managers running businesses around the globe..

This world is far away from the glitter and glamour of the city...when you are here, it is a different world altogether..there is an ambition for all of us studying or re-searching here in the campus...and the campus seems to support us in its own serene way..

You have to be here to experience it...

A transition..

life is unpredictable..i dont know abt others but i can site my example to prove the same..to all those who know me..guess where am i??
bangalore??mumbai??ya leave par azamgarh??
nope...i am in nagpur..yup..i hv quit the job..and i hv come to pursue Post Graduate Diploma in Management..i was last wednesday as usual in office at 0830 hrs when i got this news..
no..as u may think the decision was really swiftly taken...and i know that that i here for more than just good..i will post about the "life of B-School" very soon...from my perspective very soon..n trust me u wil hv a good time going thru it..

Pehla Pehla Blog

Blogging doesn't come naturally to me..although the idea struck long back but the actual execution took years..its now when i am in mumbai and no friends ka group around..that i could login and go thru the steps of checking the blogger name availabilty and posting this very first blog of mine..
padhne likhne ka hamesha se shauk tha..ghar mein mahaul tha aur ghar ke bahar doston ki kami...
kitabein hi thi jo har pal mujhe ek nayi duniya dikhane lagi...i know the credit goes to all the fiction stuff i have read till date...but the best thing about reading fiction is that it makes you DREAM and sapne hi jeene ka adhaar hai..sach kaha na???

shayad isiliye iska naam hai ALICE KA DREAMLAND !!!