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Effective Tips to Balance your Career and Marriage

Maintaining the right balance of work and family is like always walking on a tight rope. The chances of toppling over are always fifty-fifty. But the trick behind maintaining that ever-tipping balance is your outlook, your attitude and your perspective.

Things in your life shape up as you imagine them to be. How you choose your life to be is what you pick from the multitude of possibilities and ways to approach a single situation. And what you finally pull out of such options is what you finally live with.

Let’s look at some of the common ways that have helped couples find happiness at home and at work:

Never carry work home: When you are carrying your work home, you are doing injustice to family members eagerly waiting from your return home. And even if you stay back in office working overtime, your tired mind tends to be least productive. In both the instances your family strives to adjust to your schedules. Well, your family will cooperate when it is just a few days in a year that you arrive home loaded with office work. But not often!

When you have to carry your work home, stand aside and think which aspect needs to be addressed – do you need to concentrate and complete work faster? Do you need to talk to your boss for overloading you with work? or do you need to look out for a different job or different job responsibility.

Communicate openly: Talk to your partner and children, understand the problems they are facing when you are not able balance work and family life. Also explain to them the problems you are facing at work place. Together, you will certainly find a good way out. Always remember that it is possible to find happiness simultaneously at work and home. It depends on how you handle your life and vibe with your near and dear ones.

Prioritize what you want: Your pursuits in life, whatever you do whether to earn money or fulfill responsibilities towards your family, they should finally make you happy. So do not let success at work and happiness with your family contest with each other. Your kids look forward to you because they love you. Be careful not to hurt their sentiments when you are stressed out. You can change jobs or work responsibilities at various points in life but not the people you love.

Women can think of taking break especially during times of pregnancy or for taking care of their children in the vital years of their studies. During times of attack of major disease, you can slow down your pace at work and take it easy.

Celebrate your togetherness whenever you find time: Go on vacation together, prepare special dishes at home, and watch a cricket match or a movie together. Enjoy the time with your family. Keep looking for ways to make certain days special for them. These little but extra steps counts – it shows how much you care.

At the same time, when you are involved in a project and want to meet its deadline at any cost, ask everybody at home to help you with daily chores for the time being.

Life is made interesting through the way you handle it with love and care. Frustrations and irritations only make problems multiply.