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Work Life Balance

The video tries to address the issue of working and how one can have time to rest from work. According to the article video?, there is a need for a person to know how they should have free time after being at work to spend time with their families. The video believes that there are people attending work, but they do not have happy lives. According to this video, society has to discuss this issue to bring to an end the issue of not looking after oneself. The video agrees that a government cannot help an individual to live the life that they want to (Nigel, 2010). It is up to an individual to design the kind of life that they would wish to. If an individual relied on a government or corporation to enforce the desired boundaries in life, then one would be in for a rude shock.

This video by TED also notes that people who work should be careful with the kind of balance that they need. It is difficult for one to have a perfect day at any time that they may wish to. The TED video tries to communicate that people who work should balance their daily duties with the kind of retirement leisure time that one would wish to have. It is all about balancing now and not calling for a balance during retirement as it is not known when it would be right to have a good time [Confusing here. Do you mean: “It is all about balancing now, as one never knows what lies ahead.] This TED video is also specific in that it calls for approaching balance in a way that protects balanced from being dominated or interfered with by work (Nigel, 2010). A good example is given of a husband that was called by the wife informing him that he had to take care of one of the children. All that was because his wife wanted to be somewhere attending to something else.

As a responsible father, the husband came out of work early to look after his son. The father did all that was needed including taking the son for time to play. The husband was able to have a meal with the son, and it seemed that the son enjoyed his time with his dad. When the father wanted the son to have a rest when it came to sleeping time, the son acknowledged that spending time with his father was the best thing. All that shows that by getting out of work early, the father was able to balance work with family that, in turn, was a great reward to the family (Nigel, 2010). As TED puts it, it was a good way of balancing work with a family where one aspect did not overtake the other. This YouTube video expresses those small things that are undertaken by a family member matter a lot in the health of their family.

This TED video on balancing work does not mean that when there is balancing one should have to undertake a lot of work. Only the smallest things in life matter as the husband accepted to take care of his son which the son appreciated so much. Small things are what are needed to change a family, people or society in whatever aspect of life. It is therefore essential for many people to accept to do small things so that they can be able to make the life of others interesting and enjoyable (Nigel, 2010). All that this TED video is advocating is balancing work with other aspects of life in a valuable way.

Reference

Nigel, M (2010) Work Life Balance. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/nigel_marsh_how_to_make_work_life_balance_work