How to find a work life balance

        Actually this essay had to be dedicated to the perfect teachers. But this time I will make bold to change the theme a little bit. The thing is that not only teachers face the problem of work life balance. So not to make people of other professions feel forgotten and underestimated I invite them to join our discussion. I want to suggest you a method which is called “I have to & I am prohibited”.

        It seems to me that one had to write a book, and more than one, solving this problem in order to give an adequate and intelligible answer. But I will try to be brief and precise. First of all you should set the priorities, periodically reexamine them to find out what things are really important for you. How to do it? Take a sheet of paper and draw two columns. You will draw the table. It will help to systematize the information. Title the first column “I have to” and the second “I am prohibited”. Do not confuse these statements with “I want” and “I don’t want”. Fill up the table. Starting from it you will do what you have to and you won’t do the things which are prohibited. “And how do we know what we have to do? Maybe we are mistaken and the things we have listed are not really essential!”- you will ask. In future you will see if the things you do bring an affirmative reply you will continue doing them. If they do not, strike them off your list. But don’t think that you will have time for everything. Be ready that you will have to sacrifice something. Some simple examples: you want to have a pet but you can do without it, you have to do your job well but you shouldn’t run to extremes.

       If this method intrigued you, try to follow it right now, set the priorities, take a sheet of paper and write “I have to” and “I am prohibited” and periodically reexamine your list. Do not waste you time. I will tell you one thing I am sure about: our life is too short to waste it on offences and quarrels. So, it can be the first item in the column “I am prohibited”.