Work-life

A few years ago I remember watching an interview about the state of work life balance.

The interviwee chuckled when initially asked about this, responding: “what do you mean ‘work-life balance?’ Our lives don’t magically cease to exist when we enter the office, and neither does work when we enter home.’

Sometimes stressors from life influence our ability to work and vice versa.

Happily, the same is generally true when good things happen in our life — that tends to help us stay energized at work too.

The notion of clean lines between our work and what we do outside of it makes for a nice fiction tale but isn’t particularly realistic in practice.

When one influences the other, it doesn’t make you a bad employee or a bad parent, sibling, child, partner, or friend.

All it simply means, and perhaps you might consider reminding yourself of this while taking a deep breath, is that you’re human.

There’s no magic button that reconciles everything, you do as we humans have been doing remarkably and resiliently for millenia: you take it one day at a time and do your best.