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Good answers are a leading cause of work life imbalance

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These are answers – the questions the audience had never asked before

 

Good answers to questions are toxic. Why?

Because odds are our questions are poor. Yes, in the big picture, probably poor.

We think, we move, we feel, we work, we dwell – life’s five big choices.

Mind – Body – Spirit – Work – Home

The interconnectedness is undeniable.

Spending our energy equally – tending to all five – is balance.

Neglect just one, and it doesn’t matter which, the other four suffer harmful decline.

The few who ask and answer “Why?” are the people you see thriving – the ones who probably don’t look or act their age.

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It’s okay and not okay, okay?

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The answers are easy to find, it’s the questions that trip us up

 

It’s okay to not know the answer.

It’s not okay to not know the question.

Wisdom is discovering life’s most important questions.

Joy is finding the courage to pursue the answers.

Not many of us fully appreciate this.

And it’s a leading cause of work life imbalance.

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Guest blogger Lorie Sheffer: Learning new things

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The only constant is change (photo: Lorie Sheffer)

 

I had to get up at 6AM, but was kept awake by the obnoxious sounds of my husband’s iPhone. The bright light was taken care of by my sleep mask. Still, midnight had long since passed and I was getting more than a little irritated by his constant grumbling.

Apparently iPhones had just gone through a system upgrade, which did not sit well with my 61-year-old spouse. He was used to the old way of doing things. He said the old system “had a feel to it”. It was just visually better; it was Steve Job’s vision. The newsstand looked like a wooden bookcase! The note pad actually looked like a note pad! It was classy. Now, it just blends in with all of the other phones. Now he was going to have to get used to this new version.  I fell asleep with him grumbling and toying with the phone.

As I sat in the kitchen early this afternoon, I noticed that Spouse was looking more relaxed. “You know, by taking some of the old features away, they increased the battery life.”  I’m sure my eyes have not rolled so far back in my head for a long time. “The more I worked with it, the more I like it. It really is more user-friendly and it has more features. It’s smoother… I’m still not used to the appearance, but that’ll just take a little time.”

At this point I’m relatively certain his problem was less with the changes and more with the fact that those changes weren’t run by him before being implemented.

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jeff noel, why do you work so hard?

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Working hard is the DNA of the company Walt built

 

jeff noel, why do you work so hard?

Why?

Seriously?

We can’t expect others to become anything more than we ourselves are willing to become.

Simple math. Compound interest. Common sense.

Faith.

And determination.

If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough.

Go.

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