The Flaw of Work-Life Balance - Wisdom4Humanity with Patrick Mosher

This is the flaw, my view, this is the flaw of the concept of work-life balance. Work-life balance. And so wait, wait, work-life balance sits on a fulcrum and there's work and there's life on the other side. And so if you lean too heavily on work, you don't have a life. And if you lean too heavily on life, then, you know, I want a lazy work. I want more life. So I'm going to do— I'm going to be a lazy boy job, a lazy man job, right? So it's like, wait, wait, there's a problem with that model. And that's a static balance. I kind of think of work-life balance as dynamic balance. And again, I've— you've probably heard me say this story before, but I talked to a champion ice skater and she said the only time she ever broke a bone was when she was standing on one skate standing still. She slipped and broke her coccyx bone. And then we had this conversation and she said, I see the time I felt most in balance was when I was in speed, curving on the very slight edge of the skate. So, you know, the bottom of the skate is like this. She was like on the edge of the skate, but that's when it cuts into the ice. And she felt, I feel more and in balance when I'm in the curve skating fast. I kind of think of work-life balance as that. It's a dynamic balance thing. And, you know, because I know you're in the middle of all this, it's like when you're with your kids and you're going, you're thinking about work, don't beat yourself up. It's because you're passionate about your job. That's a good thing. And then when you're on the beach and you're talking about things and, you know, and you think about work, don't beat yourself up for thinking about your job while with your kids. Don't, don't, don't do that. And when you're at work and you're going like, oh man, I really wish I was with my kids, that's an okay thing. That's called yearning. That's not being out of balance. That's about yearning and being passionate about all the things you're doing.