Work, Life, and Harmony

Doctoral Success Corner

Work-life Harmony

Brenda Wilson

The specific work-life challenges that I am facing are balancing the amount of hours I have to obligate with family, home, work, and course work. At this point of my life, I am finding it very hard trying to balance everything in one day. I feel that it is not enough time for me to complete any obligations that is deem necessary. Achieving harmony always seems to come natural because I try not to worry and stress over any given situation. One strategy I now use in order to achieve harmony is to go into my bedroom and just close the door and watch some Life Time on TV. Sometimes I feel that watching Life Time will common me and I will have a peace of mind. Another strategy that I am using is learning how to prioritize things that are going on in my life. Putting things that are important first and everything else last, I find that my life just moves smoothly.

Looking at my graduate education as an investment is why I have enrolled in Capella University. There is one major thing in my life I feel that I can tweak temporarily inorder to see a return on my investment as a student, it is managing my time wisely toward my studies. I feel that if I do not have the time to study, why waist my time, money, and energy on something I know I will not complete.

I do believe that the educational institutions and systems contribute to a perceived misalignment with work-life harmony. For example, the course work is not align with what working people perceive life to be. Working people have to miss hours of sleep and give up their weekends to study. But managing and planning your time to complete your course can help. But sometime you are face with some unexpected moments, Capella offers a program to cohorts some there may not be any systematic problems.

As an educational leader, the approach I would take to address these issues is to create some type of time management strategy. Having this...