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Three Ways Entrepreneurs Can Achieve Work-Life Imbalance!

Allow me to share with you a few thoughts on work-life balance that should help you become the bitter, inconsolable shell of a person I really want you...

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3. Refuse to recognize the incontrovertible truth that every decision comes with consequences!

This is easily, easily, easily the most important thing you can do to suffer a long and unsatisfying life. There is absolutely no way around this fact: if you marry yourself to your job, you will sacrifice some amount of time for your personal life; and if you spend too much time on personal pursuits, you will sacrifice some amount of career advancement.

Jack Welch, former head of GE and a man who gets around $200,000 a day to go to conferences and be crotchety, basically admitted that his kids were almost completely raised by their mother and that his single-minded focus on his career was the reason that his first marriage failed.

Given the fact that Marissa Mayer’s son will spend his infancy in an office and his childhood being cared for by surrogates while his mom flies around the country all the time, I think it’s a pretty safe bet that he’ll grow up feeling less important to his mom than her job.

The point is, the longer you refuse to acknowledge the fact that every decision carries consequences, the longer you’ll beat your head against the wall trying to find a perfect solution for every one of your desires; when it fact such a state of affairs absolutely doesn’t exist.

So insist on having it all! The more you demand a life without compromise, the more embittered and frustrated you’ll become.

 

So there you go! No matter how much capacity you possess, life is a teeter-totter; when one thing goes up, another goes down. So be the fat kid on the seesaw!

Devote all of your energy to your career (or to your personal life), and then rail against the injustice of humanity when the neglected half of your life refuses to fix itself.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go to the bar with some friends, watch some NCAA games and wonder why it is that I’m not running a multinational conglomerate right now.

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Jeff Havens is a comedian, corporate speaker and author of How To Get Fired! and Unleash Your Inner Tyrant! Jeff helps people succeed at leadership, communication, professional development and more by telling them exactly what not to do –the perfect blend of comedy and content. Jeff currently lives in the Midwest but hopes not to someday. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, of course. There’s just other places, you know?

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