“Not
only is work-life balance nigh on impossible to achieve, even if you
did manage to achieve a perfect state of equilibrium, it wouldn’t
necessarily fulfill you anyway. There’s nothing inherently fulfilling
about “balance”…. When you are balanced you are stationary, holding your
breath, trying not to let any sudden twitch or jerk pull you too far
one way or the other. You are at a standstill.
This precarious, motionless state is not worth striving for. It’s the wrong life goal.
Strive
for fullness instead. You don’t have five different selves that you can
keep separate. You have one life. One mind. One heart. One cup, if you
will. Your challenge is not to separate one cup from another, erect
boundaries between each, and then somehow balance them all. Your
challenge is to move your life, tilt your life, intentionally imbalance
your life toward those few specific moments that will fill your one
cup.”
~ Marcus Buckingham
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