There are days when you will get home and still have work to do on your computer, but it may just mean taking the time to sit down to read a story real quick or play superheroes or play catch for 15 minutes. There are days where you need to shut down your computer and go home early so you don’t miss that soccer game or dance recital. Maybe it means you spent a little more time playing “Fortnite” or “Call of Duty” last night so today you have to not play at all and study your Career Development Courses, or do some extra cardio at the gym because you skipped yesterday. People tell me all the time, “there is no way I would ever want to be a chief, I enjoy spending time with my family too much.”Īre there additional time burdens with certain positions? Yes, but regardless of your rank or position every individual has to make the choice on how to divide their time. Meaning, some people will stay at work countless hours, then take work home and stay on their phone because they feel that is what is expected or they place that pressure on themselves. So, what does that mean? Does work life shuffle mean it is impossible to have a life outside of work and be successful in your career as well? Many people share that view, and develop an all-or-nothing mentality tipped toward one side of the scale or the other. True balance of time is not an attainable goal, to me, it’s more of a constant work-life shuffle. Just by sheer numbers alone, we spend more time at work than we do with our families, unless you count sleeping. The issue is when it comes to work-life versus personal-life there are rarely equal shares of time and consideration given between the two, with normal life usually coming up on the short end of the stick. Balance, by its very definition is “having different parts or elements properly or effectively arranged, proportioned, regulated, equally considered, etc.” Many people talk about the same thing when it comes to your relationship between work and life, but I’m here to tell you that the word “balance” may not be the correct term. Balance in all things is the key to happiness and health, at least that is what we are led to believe.
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