Work-life balance, says Nigel Marsh, is too important to be left in the hands of your employer. Marsh lays out an ideal day balanced between family time, personal time and productivity — and offers some stirring encouragement to make it happen.
Please watch the video and answer the questions below.
- How important is it to find balance between work and life?
- Think about yourself. How easy or difficult is it to deal with work and family?
- Which ideas did you like the most? Why?
1. How important is it to find balance between work and life?
Achieving work-life balance is critical, as it directly impacts overall well-being, relationships, and long-term satisfaction. Nigel Marsh argues that this balance should not be delegated to employers, as institutional solutions often fail to address individual needs. I agree with him that it is our responsibility to seek and achieve this balance.
2.Think about yourself. How easy or difficult is it to deal with work and family?
Balancing work and family life can sometimes be challenging. However, I believe that implementing small, deliberate changes—such as setting boundaries, communicating needs, and better understanding the concept of success—are actions we can all take to achieve this balance.
3. Which ideas did you like the most? Why?
I really liked the idea that little things count. I agree that having more balance doesn’t mean dramatic changes in life, since with small investments in the right places, one can radically transform the quality of one’s relationships and one’s own quality of life.
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How important is it to find a work-life balance?
It is important to understand that success is not money, an idea that since we are children is very widespread and the majority of people by common sense think that it is the only definition of “success”. In the end, life is spent working to accumulate money, which does not always reach, and healthy social relations are not established, and when at least one realizes, life ends.
Think about yourself. How easy or difficult is it to deal with work and family?
It is quite difficult, the work is exhausting and in a city like lima the hours spent on public transport make one have less time to share with family and friends. That is why you should appreciate the little time left free to give love and understanding or solve problems in an intelligent way.
What ideas did you like the most? Why?
The idea that change is in ourselves and that we should change the meaning of success, which is not to accumulate money or compete for more money.
How important is it to find balance between work and life?
To find this balance is imórtant due to of the success of tihs search will depend the quality or our future lives, considering work walk by our side through them.
Think about yourself. How easy or difficul is it to deal with work and family?
Is such a difficult to deal with work and family. There are several problems around the boundaries between them. The time itself, the urgent needs, the traffic jam, etc.
Which ideas did you like t e most? Why?
1. No goverments and corporations, but each one should take responsability for their lives. It’is particularity important not to leave the destiny of our lives to the companies.
2. Is so important to be careful with the time frame given for hob advancement, Also with the foutines of personal life.
3. The most important pont is that the little things matter. It is not great intentions but attention to the small things that can transform our personal relationships and the quality of your life.