Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life

Many people say balancing their work and life is a hard thing to do. But by making choices about which opportunities they will pursue and which they will decline, even leader can and do engage with work, family and community. To get prosperity they should combine work and life so they won't lose their track. It is good when someone involve family in work decisions and activities.
21st-century business leaders in this research said they reconcile their professional and personal lives. This research conducted by students at Harvard Business School. It took five years with almost 4000 executive worldwide.
Many of the executives they have interviewed have passed hard times but still get connected with their families. Their stories and advice reflect five main themes: defining success for yourself, managing technology, building support networks at work and at home, traveling or relocating selectively, and collaborating with your partner.
The first thing to do to have balance live between work and life is defining success for yourself. For example, one of the leader said it means being home at least four nights a week. For another, it means understanding what’s going on in the lives of family members. For a third, it’s about having emotional energy at both work and home. In defining professional, women put more value than men do on individual achievement. Women are more likely to mention the importance of friends and community as well as family. Several male executives who admitted to spending inadequate time with their families consider absence an acceptable price for providing their children with opportunities they themselves never had. And another said that "I would have still made a similar decision to focus on work, as I was able to provide for my family and become a leader in my area, and these things were important to me. Now I focus on my kids’ education and spend a lot more time with them over weekends"

Source: http://hbr.org/2014/03/manage-your-work-manage-your-life/ar/1