Both being online, it’s not easy to manage the two simultaneously, says Anamika Yaduvanshi, as shares tips to sail the two boats
The Covid-19 pandemic has become an opportunity in adversity for online businesses. Multiple new online start-ups have mushroomed during this critical time. Same is true of online relationships. People have found their soul-mates through different online dating apps. However, in these two new ventures of love and work, it’s not easy to manage the affairs simultaneously. Both being online, there is no limit on working hours. Balancing these two could be overwhelming. Here are few tips to sail these two boats:
Establish boundaries: With time being the limiting constraint, you need to set boundaries in a manner that your online work hours do not clash with your online relationship. It is well established statistically now that an online love relationship might fall prey to oblivion gradually if one doesn’t practice basic tenets of a real physical relationship in order to spice up the virtual relationship. Same is not true of a business relationship in modern virtual world. Both require commitment. Allowing an overlap on a regular basis would neither be good for either of them.
Set clear goals: Every relationship that is meant to last must have a foundation that can weather all storms and yet flourish. Same is true of an online business as also an online love relation. For committing to them you need to have a clear objective. Just as the former’s growth is measured by growing amount to the credit part of the Balance Sheet, the latter’s growth is measured by the amount of trust and faith. Just as a clear vision empowers the idea of growth in an online business venture, the idea of meeting definitive goals to improve your online love relationship empowers it. Both can’t be achieved unless there is a goal.
Don’t expect result soon: Every profit requires an investment. Nothing can be rated as a sustained growth if it happens overnight. Even the richest of the Treasuries in world would end up emptying its coffers if there is no revenue generation. Just as you maintain patience before yielding profits in a business, must you also maintain patience in an online love relation. Spice it up by texting, writing letters, saying random ‘I Love You’s’, meet physically as often as possible and showing commitment. That is the best one can do before giving the relationship time to yield results. It sure will turn out to be a formidable one in time.
Set commitment levels for both: All of us have prior commitments as we live in a society. With the world on digital platform unified by the Internet and bogged down by the Pandemic, this line of maintaining a balance between commitments is fast becoming obliterated. Such is the gravity of obliteration that one may not even realise the actual cost one may pay eventually! Do not keep wondering as to what hit you. For either of the relationship might be sacrificed at the alter of this obliteration. So, one must have commitment levels for both in a manner that one’s commitment doesn’t cost the others’.
Take care of your health: If one were to wonder how keeping healthy will assist you in balancing your online work with online romance then pause and ponder — doesn’t the same principle apply when you are conducting your work physically and also living together physically? If you are to respond in affirmative, then you must appreciate that same principle applies to the e-world. Well, you neglect your health and you will not be good for either an online business or an online love relationship. Please know that your relationships are only as good as is your health.
The writer is a life coach and motivational speaker
