This week I learned a lot about
priorities and my work-life balance. I
heard from entrepreneur, Randy Komisar in one
video saying that as a CEO work-life balance doesn’t work, and I heard in
another video by Meg Cadoux Hirshberg that you have to
work hard at maintaining a balance, and yet another
from Corey Bell where he just built the business to reflect his own values. The real trick is that it all comes down to
you in the end.
The word ‘balance’ implies that
we have to have both sides in equilibrium.
This doesn’t mean that it has to be 50-50, but it can’t be fluctuating randomly
however it wants. Many of us don’t like
talking and thinking about money much less the way it effects our family, but
in this
article by Stephen Gibson he says, “No matter who we are or what we are
doing in life, money is a necessary part of it.” We need to decide what balance we want in our
lives and compare that with what lifestyle we want to lead. Gibson says that it’s all about how we see
money, how we get it, and what we do with it.
Gibson claims that “Money has great power” but he also states “money in
and of itself is neither good nor evil.”
As responsible adults we can choose if money and therefor work is our master
or our servant. “Money can make good men
better, but on the other hand it usually makes bad men worse.”
In the end we need to work. That is a fact of life. If we don’t work we won’t survive, and if we
do it will be at the detriment of others.
We need money to take care of our families, and that takes time and
effort, some of which may come out of time and effort that we need for our
families. We need to make a decision on
what that balance is going to be taking into account our family situation, our
desired style of living and our physical needs.
Again, it does not have to be a perfect 50-50 balance, but it does have
to balance in equilibrium, and that’s up to each of us to discover for
ourselves and our families.
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