Having It All... and Making It Work: Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First

Chapter 3. Make Choices and Accept the Consequences: Giving Up What You Don’t Want Badly Enough

You now need to make some tough choices, because balance is achieved by letting go of those things that you don’t want as much. These lower-level matters may masquerade as first-tier priorities, but you can tell what matters most when you have to let go of something.

Once we have identified the things in work and family that we want most, we next need to identify what we don’t want as much. The art of balancing our career and family involves limiting the number of tradeoffs between them, which allows us to do both as much as possible.

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Everything comes with a price—even achieving balance.

Balance is about getting as much of our family and career as ...