It’s become en vogue lately to discount work-life balance as an unrealistic goal to have in our super-charged, information-overloaded, non-stop world. I think that is a load of baloney. First of all, you are the one that gets to decide what your version of balance is. The work and life scale doesn’t have to be even for it to be right for you. I
This is what
the “delegation conversation” typically sounds like with one of my clients:
Client: I have so much to do and it is starting to sink in that I don’t have time to get it all done.
Me: This is progress. Once you can see the reality of being over-capacity, you can see different solutions. What are your options?
Client: I could
Last week I ran in my eighth 10-Miler race since 2006. But I wouldn’t call myself a runner. A more apt description would be a really, really slow jogger. And I’m proud of that. Because 10 years ago I couldn’t run a mile. I lived in South Boston at the time and had spent years yearning to be one of those “runners” you see on the street. My
“We need to change the entire meeting book.” These are pretty much the worst words you can hear when you’ve been up for 20 hours, it’s well past midnight, and the meeting in question is slated to begin at 8am. But this is not just any meeting, it’s one that took several months of planning, coordination, hand-holding, ego-stroking, and bureaucratic
