Can Anyone Really Find Balance? Have Margin?
Thursday, January 25, 2007
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As you could tell from my Tips from the Trenches the other day, I've been a bit busy lately. As I was reading Fast Company this morning, I found an article called Balance is Bunk which I enjoyed. Here's an excerpt:
It may be that you recently had a week that defied sanity. You faced an impossible deadline at work. You were expected at your daughter's dance recital, at a soccer game, and at a meeting with the kitchen contractor. Then another big project landed in your lap (thanks, boss!). You were exhausted, and your spouse was miffed. And your job? Well, at 11 one night, you finally bailed on that deadline.JG
And you wondered, What's wrong here? Whatever happened to balance?
The truth is, balance is bunk. It is an unattainable pipe dream, a vain artifice that offers mostly rhetorical solutions to problems of logistics and economics. The quest for balance between work and life, as we've come to think of it, isn't just a losing proposition; it's a hurtful, destructive one.
This is not, of course, what many of us want to believe. In the last generation, balance has won huge cultural resonance. No longer mere cocktail conversation fodder, it has become something like a new inalienable right, creeping into the American ethos if not the Constitution: life, liberty, and the pursuit of balance. Self-actualization and quality time for all!
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1 Comments:
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At 1/25/2007,
John DeMarco said...
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From real life experience, I think I agree. I believe more in seasons. (There is a time for everything under the sun.) There will be times of long hours-you just need to make sure there's time for rest later, perhaps not the same day, week, or even month.
