It’s time we recognize all of us have a minimum of two purposes in our life span. Discounting the growing up years and post grown up years, an average productive lifespan is about 35 years max. We call them Personal & Professional.
It’s time we recognize all of us have a minimum of two purposes in our life span. Discounting the growing up years and post grown up years, an average productive lifespan is about 35 years max. We call them Personal & Professional. This is same for either sexes, with a fewer exceptions.
Growing up is dependence on family - Parents and elders both in nucleus and extended circles. Post grown up, generally termed retired age, majority of us tend to usually depend on our next Gen. It is emerging to be different now a days - given the Global ambitions of upcoming generation, most of us plan for our post grown up years, realising it is not fair to expect to be tended to. No wonder there is enormous demand for senior citizen enclaves - staying in which is no more a taboo.
(I sincerely feel there is nothing called retirement. It’s just moving across responsibilities from that of professional to personal, as long as we can shoulder them. Decision is ours - like making way to next gen cheerfully both in Profession and life. It’s not loosing control, which is a generally felt norm more out of anxiety. It’s more of delegating Responsibilities believing in our own ability to nurture and grow next Gen).
We all meticulously plan our holidays to break from our busy schedules. Thanks to purse string attached to LTA, it’s a norm we spend it. No wonder holidaying has become a huge business.
Spending time with and for human relations is a way of saying to them we care. Let’s understand this from a professional perspective. In modern management, Human Relationships are given the all important dimension. In making our HR a vital differentiating asset, we go all out to please them. This will include more of non cash incentives - including out bound learning and training for team building. Plethora of opportunities have made it important to build sustainable relationships for retention, beyond money. That’s possible only we really care.
Should we stop doing this only as Professionals? Should we sustain only Professional relationships? Especially when we all have at least another couple of decades to look forward to, post professional engagement....
Drawing parallel to our personal relationships, is it not fair on our part to extend such importance to our own Kin & Kith? This write up is an attempt to create the importance of spending a just time at least, if not qualify time, for our known relationships who have either directly or indirectly to whatever we are today.
I believe, wherever we are and however we are, as a family we can certainly travel to meet with people whom we had known in our lives - irrespective of status and position. After all, giving our time to them is what they are looking at - much beyond the material things we can afford.
Just talking and listening to people related to us by visiting them helps them develop a positive morale and belief - much same as in Organisations. This certainly rubs on us too - a positive non-commital vibe. So for our own sake, let’s make it our responsibility to build teams around personal relationships. Remember, only we can do it and it’s completely in our scheme of things.
Move with a purpose and make holidaying purposeful, much beyond our own self and immediate family. Extended families and relationships bring in a lot of cheer and happiness - as we see during weddings at least.
It’s never too late to start...