Work - Life Balance and Work - Life Integration
SNAPS DAY 342
12/8/20221 min read
Work - Life Balance is devoting quality time during your work shift and then leave work behind after shift so you can dedicate quality time for your personal life. This also means when you start your work shift you must leave your personal time behind. Weekends, holidays and vacations are precious personal time with no work being done. The same applies when you are on a business trip dedicating extended time for work during your travel. Senior executives who spend several weeks of the year on planes know exactly what I mean.
*About the photo
One of my secret weapons is my gorgeous wife Prudence. Ever since we met in 1992, we decided to support each other’s career growth and we call this Work - Life Integration. We would drive each other to offsite events, wait some hours while the other finishes her/his overtime work, accommodate planned critical meetings during personal time offs, cheer-up each other during lows, celebrate during wins and understand each other when there are work emergency especially those that require activation of business
continuity plans. The same applies when I’m at work. My boss supports me 100% during my planned and unplanned personal time off like my mid-week lunch or dinner date with my gorgeous wife Prudence, when I need rest after an exhausting project, when I have family emergencies, and every time I have classes when I enroll myself in school.
This photo was taken during the pool skills exercises of my gorgeous wife Prudence’ PADI Open Water Certification while I was presenting during an RFI oral defense. The client moved the dates which coincided with our planned diving vacation. After a month, we got shortlisted to an RFP defense which we passed! As of this writing, we just finished hosting the client visit in our Site. Let’s pray we win and have the opportunity to service their customers.
