Why Work Life Balance
Doesn’t Exist…(and shouldn’t)
Work life balance isn't a REAL thing.
Despite what 100 gurus will tell you as they attempt to sell you their work life balance programs and meditations.
Want to know why?
Because
balance - as we commonly understand It - does NOT exist.
I looked up the definition of balance: To bring or keep in equilibrium. Or to hold something “steady”.
Everything in the universe is in flux. Everything in the universe is constantly changing. Nothing anywhere is made to "hold steady".
Balance is NOT a place of no motion that you strive reach and are then DONE.
This expectation is the cause of a lot of unnecessary suffering. For instance, if you've been married a long time you know that the love in a marriage doesn't hold steady. That is a myth!
It goes up and down over time. The couples that survive
go with that flow and course correct when they need to. Couples that fail, freak out the minute it gets "unsteady" and start pushing buttons.
Our definition of balance is completely out of whack with the way our world actually works.