Accountants do it with Balance

"In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed."- Sid Caesar 

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1. Graduate school isn’t for the faint-hearted.

Hindi siya status symbol, hindi siya luxury. Trust me, it really feels cocky when the idea of “Mag ma-Master’s ako.” sinks in. Nauuna talaga ang yabang before anything else. Totoo ‘yan. But I’m sorry to burst your bubble: graduate school is more of ugly than fab. Just imagine coming home from work, nabugbog ka sa dami ng trabaho at bigat ng traffic, at haharap ka pa sa mga assigned readings at papers mo. And no, you can’t just say, “Sorry, hindi ko po nabasa.” or “Sorry, pwede po bang next week ko na lang i-submit?” to your professors. While they know everyone’s engaged into something other than school, they also assume you do your part and you’re pretty serious on what you got yourself into. And of course, at some point, you will get hurt – sa pagod, sa puyat, sa dami ng trabaho. Matuto kang salagin lahat.

2. Graduate school isn’t about finding yourself.

Before your enter grad school, dapat nahanap mo na ang sarili mo kasi kung papasok ka sa ganitong situation para maghanap ng nawawala, you’d lose yourself. Kung naghahanap ka ng pag-ibig, huwag dito. Kung naghahanap ka ng direksyon sa buhay, huwag dito. Hindi ito pampalipas-oras o instrumento para maka-move on. Make sure you already got your life together. Make sure you already know what you want. That’s your fuel. That’s gonna be your fuel for the next 4-5 years when it starts to suck the life out of you. Gawin mo muna ang lahat ng gusto mong gawin before you decide to tie yourself up with all the drama and stress in grad school. Magsawa ka muna sa buhay mo sa labas because…

3. Graduate school will eat you up alive.

It will consume you. Normally, you should be the one controlling it. But in reality, it’s the other way around. Out of a number of night-outs and travels in a year, be ready to sacrifice 90% of them. Kahit anong pilit mo, I swear, it’s not possible to give an equal amount of attention to the rest of your priorities. It’s just not gonna work. Grad school pauses and slows your life a bit. Learn to deal with temporary inconveniences which will resort to permanent takeaways in the long run.

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Isa kang sacrificial lamb kung papasok ka sa grad school. Minsan maiiyak ka na lang dahil kailangan mong mag-set ng alarm on a weekend. Seat sales do not sound exciting to you anymore. And instead of sustaining the social butterfly in you, mas pipiliin mong tumita o tumito sa bahay at matulog.

But little did you know, ma-va-validate ang existence mo sa grad school. You’ll eventually realize there’s more to life than what you’ve been enjoying, na there’s always room for crackpots, and you’re always better than yesterday.

Life is a never-ending learning process. It’s vital to keep up with the pace.

Surely, you don’t have to be smart to survive. You just always have to find your center. ❤️

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Achievement and Enjoyment: The Work-Life Balance

Work-Life Balance: a thing many professionals aim but most of them - including myself - struggle to achieve.

A job you love. The personal growth you need.

Despite the continued growth of technology and the worldwide search for it, sometimes it’s hard to tell where workday ends and personal life begins.

Work-life balance does not mean an equal balance. It’s not like we’re making timetable and schedule equal number of hours for our work, family, friends and other personal activities.

The best work-life balance will be different from other people and other time. The best work-life balance will be different from each of us because we all have different priorities and different lives.

However, at the bottom of an effective work-life balance are two key points that are connected to us: Achievement and Enjoyment.

Achievement and Enjoyment answers the question, “Why do we want a better income... a new house... a weekend getaway... to do good at work... and to go to work at all?  

Most of us already have an idea on the meaning of achievement so let’s explore the meaning of enjoyment.

Having a life outside our work is so important. It makes us happy.

Caring about the things other than our job doesn’t mean we don’t like what we do and we’re not committed to it. It simply means how we value our time and energy, that we understand how important that the 8 - 5 of our day is not our entire life. Doing something outside the office makes you more interesting.

Now ask yourself, when was the last time you achieve and enjoy something at work...with your family and friends... for yourself?

Life will give us the balance we desire when we are achieving and enjoying every single day... in all the important areas of our lives.

So, let’s achieve and enjoy... every day, in every way.