Kevin W. McCarthy

Set Your Resolve

Resolve is the determination not to dissolve.

Striving for Life Balance

Striving for balance is a crazy making, pointless waste of your time, effort, and emotional energy.  Attempting to live up to “the balanced life” standard only heaps on lumps of guilt and disappointment, along with a gnawing sense of low-grade failure.  Living with the glass half full in a pessimist’s paradise, despite your hope, optimism, and desire for improvement.

The problem is epidemic.  Our entire culture has so accepted the myth, that balance in life is the accepted norm for what makes for a successful life.  Well, perhaps, having tons of money is the even bigger myth.  So behind materialism for confusing our concept of the ideal life is this idea of balance.

I've known for decades that this kind of thinking was erroneous, yet the point was driven home to me...

The #1 Reason You Won't Achieve Work Life Balance!

Do you believe the sun, planets, and stars revolve around the earth?  Of course not!  The Ancient Greeks believed the world was flat.  Centuries later this was still the prevailing wisdom and teaching of the day.  Then along came Nicolaus Copernicus who changed the course of modern science and astronomy. 

What about today?  How can so many of the best and brightest be so wrong about work life balance?  Are you one of them?

The Myth of Work Life Balance

How do I achieve work life balance?  Here is another question I get asked frequently.  And here is where I am a self-help heretic. 

Call it what you may, life work balance, work life balance, balancing my life, finding balance, or whatever description you want to use.  Work life balance is a myth, a distraction, a misguided principle, a false concept, an inaccurate ideal, and a missed target. 

Here on my blog I'll be exploring The Myth of Work Life Balance and invite your comments, questions, and, frankly, disagreements.  I've debated this with many persons.  More importantly, you won't be left hanging.  There is a better alternative.