Personal Vs Professional Life Balance !

Every individual is trying to keep a balance between his Personal Life and Professional Life which he is bounded with. Personal life is a simple dream which consist of all his personal desires such as Buying Grand House, getting married, having Kids & their Education and all the other rituals he has to perform as an individual in his life. On the other hand, a Professional Life is entirely different, consisting of Performing Employment or Business Oriented Activity to run a Livelihood. Professional Life is not necessary to will synchronize with the personal life in desirable manner and there lies a Problem.

The Conflict of Personal Vs Professional usually arises when a man finds himself not able to come across objectives of either one. In 90% of the cases people who are good at their Professional life are not happy with their Personal Life and vice versa.

But, one should not forget the fact that a man who is engaged in his professional life maybe by desire ultimately serving his personal desires. Man's personal life brings a feel of peace, comfort and rejuvenation for his future life.

As same as personal life professional life also has a life cycle, which is shorter than the personal one. But TDI proper execution of professional life cycle of an individual supports to balance his personal life cycle.

If, a Man working for entire week, he obviously provides shorter time to his family, friends and other associates. While on the weekends he desire to fulfill this moments with his personal goals like Travelling, Shopping, Exploration, engaging at any Sports Activity or some Religious Activities, Meditation, etc where he can find himself.

It's very crucial to manage both the lives at once. For example, learning how to play piano could be a personal priority for a man. But, on the other hand he also wants to learn some new Technical skills to improvise his professional efficiency. Now, here he has to dedicate his time, effort and concentration for learning both the things analyzing perspectives of these activities with totally different dimensions.

According to my experience I feel that following should be done to maintain Personal and Professional life balance:

1. One has to remarkably separate his Personal Life priorities against the professional Once.
2. Possibly assign particular time for professional life activities and apart from that time he should totally focused upon maintaining his personal life objectives.
3. If if a personal life if is more stressful for an individual, he must try something non routing like playing some sports cooking a meal watching a movie e for or chatting with some less known people and get known about them.
4. If a professional life is stressful for a person he has to to curb his activities from personal life and has to focus timely priorities of a professional life and again get back to his earlier routine to maintain the life balance. But he has to make sure that these stress elements should be eliminated with his further experiences.
5. Possibly not to carry any professional activity during personal Time.
6. Never Work on Holidays. Working on holidays make a person difficult two separate his personal life and professional life and ultimately increases stress within his personal life.
7. If possible never with any e memorable event which is for life time such as anniversary for birthdays or wedding function or funeral, etc. during personal time. This will create long term memories to get rejuvenated and relax in any future time when one thinks about his personal life.
8. It's very important to know that major portion of your life time is going to be spend at the professional premises like in a job or in business. Therefore all the impact of of an regulated personal life will effect professional duties and responsibilities. Try to understand that stressful life effects personal and professional decision making therefore avoid taking decisions looking at only one part of a life.
9. If if you family or business are dependent upon you then you should understand that you are the only one who is taking decisions. But contrary it is not necessary that it you become the only person to work for it. Involve as many as people from the family or from the business to get involved into associated activities so that it the works tress must not affect you.
10. Maintain communication among each of the individuals associated with you directly. Buy a survey it has observed that 80% of the problem in personal or professional life both arises due to improper communication or or Ms interpretation.

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Author, Dr. Ninad Gawande is an Approved Career Counselor for 'National Career Services' by Ministry of Labor & Employment, Govt. of India since 2017. He is working as an Assistant Professor at Prof. Ram Meghe Institute of Technology & Research, Badnera. Dr. Ninad utilizes his professional experience through contributing his efforts in Career Guidance Activity of Local Youth & provides Educational Guidance  to students and parents.

"Jobs for Career"

Very often we find people talking about their Career or Jobs in very confusing manner and that is very inappropriate. Because, they get confuse between two different aspects of their work lives unknowingly, Jobs Vs Career. 


Job can be any kind of work which may be suitable or not suitable, by matching the skill set or interest of any person with nature of work or not. Thus an employee prefers to obey his employer, due his personal or professional priorities which make him feel coincide the balance of his work life as well as personal life. 

Whereas, on the other hand 'Career' is said as a long term perspective of anybody's desire about typical Work Experience, Industrial Exposure or Designation, Organizational hierarchy position, Delegated Power, Authority or money for the instance to set as ones' life goal.

In a sense Job is a 'stepping stone' which an individual is going to use for achieving his future goal as a Career. 

People joins a job and over a period of Time, they judge it on the basis of their sweet & bitter experiences. Depending upon work environment, effective utilization of their skills and by foreseeing the opportunities through that Job further, decides whether to continue it or not. If, the employee find it suitable, then he may wish to develop job related work skills to achieve higher objectives through synchronizing personal goals along with objectives of the organisation and decide it as a Career.

Other perspective which express career is about a work itself. It states that any individual like to work to achieve higher efficiency in his Job role, Optimize his skills & resources and make that work enjoyable in a very professional manner, which ultimately becomes his Career.

One should consider the term 'Career' is definitely associated with an activity or an approach of individual to pursue his passion for his lifetime and maintain his livelihood out of it. For example: If, any student wish to pursue his career as a Banker, he may start working as a Cashier at first. Here, his designated job of Cashier is not his career, but, this job will lead him to achieve his goal in future. Similarly, after few days he will understand the potential of his current job and will opt to shift some other job with different responsibilities and nature of work which may offer him advanced skill set.

Job is Created and regulated by an Employer who hires an Employee to complete a desired task o attain his organisational objective. Whereas career is something that an individual pursue at the job assigned by his employer to fulfill his long term personal objectives. 

While considering the length of Job and Career, one can remarkably observe that Time span is predetermined between employer and employee through a written contract or verbal agreement at his work place where there is no such Time span preceded by an individual while shaping his career as in professional life.

Author, Dr. Ninad Gawande is an Approved Career Counselor for 'National Career Services' by Ministry of Labor & Employment, Govt. of India since 2017. He is working as an Assistant Professor at Prof. Ram Meghe Institute of Technology & Research, Badnera. Dr. Ninad utilizes his professional experience through contributing his efforts in Career Guidance Activity of Local Youth & provides Educational Guidance  to students and parents.