Comments on: Should we strive for work/life balance? https://gettingthingsdone.com/2011/08/should-we-be-striving-for-worklife-balance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=should-we-be-striving-for-worklife-balance David Allen's GTD® Methodology Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:06:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Todd Stanfield https://gettingthingsdone.com/2011/08/should-we-be-striving-for-worklife-balance/#comment-3636 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:25:27 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/2011/08/10/#comment-3636 I think “social equilibrium” may be a better term than balance:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_equilibrium

I think the key is to renegotiate agreements in either or both work/life relationships. If so much is demanded of you (due to others expectations or your own) in one area, such that you don’t have enough resources (energy, time) to be fulfilled in the other, then you have to renegotiate agreements with yourself & others.

]]> By: Mark Hartl https://gettingthingsdone.com/2011/08/should-we-be-striving-for-worklife-balance/#comment-3635 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 07:37:20 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/2011/08/10/#comment-3635 There`s nothing else to do than to ask who, what and how we are doing, working, living and managing! I was driven trough my day, feared, stressed and extremely under pressure not only by boardmembers, shareholders and success orientation, no I was pressurized by my own aims. At least it was a book that led me in a new direction. “When God Wasn’t Watching, the Devil Created Business” by JR Zyla (http://www.themanagementlounge.de/?lang=en) gave me the questions to reflect what I was doing, how i lived and how future should look like. And he gave the answers too, how we might have the same success as we are used to without a loss of lifequality. Really more than readable, although it needs a little bit of “mindchanging”.

]]> By: Luke https://gettingthingsdone.com/2011/08/should-we-be-striving-for-worklife-balance/#comment-3634 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:55:08 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/2011/08/10/#comment-3634 You might find Dan Thurmon’s web site (danthurmon.com) interesting. I had the privilege to see him speak live a couple of years ago and I had a paradigm shift about balance. It’s not possible to always remain in balance; if you’re totally balanced you’re not in motion. You have to be “off balance on purpose” to make forward moving progress in any area of your life.

]]> By: Matt https://gettingthingsdone.com/2011/08/should-we-be-striving-for-worklife-balance/#comment-3632 Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:07:46 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/2011/08/10/#comment-3632 I understand where you are coming from – when immersed in something that you enjoy, everything else seems to become secondary, but this is when others, including those we love and/or most respect, sometimes remind us that we have lost our work/life balance. Not questioning work/life balance doesn’t mean that we have found work/life balance.

In my view some things can’t (and shouldn’t) just be put on “cruise control” (even when we like to think that might be possible) – that often means we are taking them for granted, and that can be a dangerous place to be.

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