Category: Balance (yeah right)

Balance is not a myth, contrary to all the BS saying it is

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Balance is not a myth, contrary to all the BS saying it is.

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What this means is our balance equation has five components

Seattle waterfront grain elevators
Balance, and this photo, are challenging to explain

 

What is balance?

Is it belief that joy at work and home is equal?

Is it belief that time spent at work and home should feel equal?

Joy isn’t the currency we trade.

Neither is the time spent in either location important.

Our currency is actually energy – energy spent thriving in mental, emotional, and physical health.

We do this at two locations – home and work.

What this means is our balance equation has five components.

Not two or three (it’s actually the sum of both).

Mind – Body – Spirit

Work – Home

Five total elements for balance.

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Good answers are a leading cause of work life imbalance

Leadership development flip chart notes
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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One simple definition will threaten every excuse we’ve ever made

Orange County Public Schools airport poster
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What would we give for the clearest, most comprehensive definition of “balance”?

Understanding that it’s this simple will threaten every excuse we’ve ever made…

Or ever will make…

Good excuses have become too easy for us.

Time to rethink the whole thing, no?

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