Sam's Cents
A New Way to Think About Balance
Last week I was traveling for two nights from Tuesday to Thursday. I then took off Friday through the long weekend to be with my kids before we all returned to our daily routines. This is the balance of my life. Everyone’s is different. Each day is never a perfect balance between work and life. Instead, it might be all work one day and all life the next day.
Then, when you break it down into slices and add friends and a relationship and health, hobbies, family, community and your career, it gets even more complex. It looks like family - work - health - work - relationship - friends - family or some combo of them. The mistake is in beating yourself up over how you manage it. You are doing your best and the spice and fun of life entail a little bit of each of these slices and a lot of a few of them. So stop judging yourself. Enjoy a full life. Do it guilt-free and savor it!
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