Attempting to establish work-life boundaries is a flawed approach because it suggests that you must divide yourself into two separate entities—the businessperson and the human being with relationships, social activities, and necessary downtime.
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work life balance
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I Don't Believe in Work/Life Balance
We often hear about why work/life balance is important, how a few people are successful at achieving it (survivorship bias much?) and mostly how the majority of the world just struggles with this.
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Living a Full Life
I realized quite some time ago that I can't continue fighting the fullness of my life, but that it would be futile because I'm an ambitious individual and I will always gravitate to fullness.
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Self Discipline & Motivation
Ultimately I hope that we - as entrepreneurs - can eventually rid ourselves of this continuous struggle of work versus life.
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Happiness = Success
My passion & ambition mostly relates to professional dreams & goals, which tends to be long term in nature. This makes it very tempting for me to allow that burning fire to simply consume all other aspects of my life.