Work life balance

Each day we continue our daily routines. Most do this without thought, but some do this with the idea to find a work life balance. I don't mean that we purposely try to find a way to balance our working lives, but rather we each try to balance our work life in order to live. I've said it before that when we take our last breath we will not exclaim "Gee, I wish I worked harder". Just the opposite is true.

We all want a work life balance. In order to achieve it we need to plan for it. I am finding that the training required to complete an Ironman takes a greater degree of dedication and planning that originally anticipated. There just isn't enough time in the day to accomplish EVERYTHING. Somethings will need to be planned for another day and time. This means that we need to plan. If we don't plan we will have too large an obstacle to push and we'll undoubtedly avoid it at all costs.

Ironman training highlights this effect explicitly. Take a training week where you need to fit 16 hours of training in. During a week 16 hours is not impossible to find with planning and some life style changes. However, if one training day is missed and you roll it over to another day you body begins to disown you. Similarly, when we push out our work life balance to "another day" we tend to avoid it altogether and begin accepting the situation that we are in. With Ironman training you can't do this or you'll end up entering the day of the event unprepared and unlikely to finish without seeing the medical tent.

Take a good look at your current work life balance. Do you see any changes that can be made? If so, make them today so tomorrow you'll have a brighter outlook on life.

Until next time...