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Your Life Is not a Checkbook – Quit Trying to Balance It

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Your life is not a checkbook. Quit trying to balance it.Many people talk about having a work-life balance. I’m not one of them. I don’t believe in a work-life balance. Life and work are too messy to be in balance. The two can’t be placed in some sort of ledger and be made to cancel each other. They are not parts of an equation that can be balanced. I’m not even sure that they need to be balanced, at least not in the way the word “balanced” usually is understood.

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The Art of Balance

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Walking a tightrope is difficult. Living on one is even more difficult.It’s hard to find a sense of balance¹ when teetering between a day job and a side business. When does the work end? Which thing – the job or the business – takes priority? Some people may like their day jobs; others may not. Maybe they like their jobs, but they’re more interested in making their side businesses their full-time ones. Then again, maybe they’re content with having a steady job and splashing in the entrepreneurial waters whenever it suits them.

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