26. Balancing Your Life

Concept

The most commonly mentioned issue in my seminars world wide is work-life balance. Current pundits talk about work-life integration. Whether you think it as balance or integration, the way we move from our personal, home, family, and work roles has, with new technology, grown more complex. One CEO I know slept with his cell phone and would send out texts as he thought of them—and expected answers when he got in to the office early the next day. Some managers draw sharp lines between their work and personal lives, they compartmentalize their lives like the water-tight compartments of a submarine striving to keep the emotions and thoughts of one arena (work or home) separate from the other. Their VABE would be “don’t ...

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