Family vs. Work: The Everlasting Struggle for Balance Story

Family vs. Work: The Everlasting Struggle for Balance

The word balance implies that there are multiple forces and weights pulling and pushing at different and sometimes opposite ends and directions.

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And it implies that somewhere, somehow, there is the possibility that those forces can be counterweighted in a way that allows something to achieve a peaceful, stoic central state.

The Everlasting Struggle for Balance

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The challenge in life is not just family vs. work. The real challenge in life is family vs. productivity vs. health vs. romance vs. friendship vs. money vs. fun. It is you vs. everything. Read More

We All Struggle

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If we are struggling in our very fortunate position, surely there are many others struggling out there too.

The good thing about hardship and struggle is that it helps pave the way for clarity. For me, this clarity means accepting that I have taken on too much.

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