Balanaced Scorecard of Life

Today I received a mail forward, which had a speech by Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis, Pune. He has spoken about how to live life happily. He says that you need to have a spark in your life and explains how can we give our spark the fuel, and save it from storms that may come. One of the best part in the speech was about what is known as "Work Life Balance". He has explained it so beautifully.

"You must have read some quotes - Life is a tough race, it is a marathon or whatever. No, from what I have seen so far, life is one of those races in nursery school, where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same with life, where health and relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die."

He says that "There is no point of getting a promotion on the day of your breakup." just as their is no point having a great profit if you customers have started leaving you.

We need to have KPIs set for our life not just against financial (or other materialistic) performance, but use a balanced scorecard for life with 4 measure heads:

1. Health
2. Relationships
3. Mental Peace
4. Materialistic Achievements

Another good quote from the speech:

"If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? It's OK, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, fall in love. We are people, not programmed devices."