#106: Why "Work-Life Balance" Isn't Working For You
The StoryBrand Podcast
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4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
If you feel like you've been trying to achieve "work-life balance" for years and never experiencing it, you're not alone. Most business leaders have a hard time shutting off work and finding time to focus on other things like time with family, health and fitness, and personal hobbies. But if you constantly live with unhealthy work hours and stress, it can have serious effects on your mental and physical health.
In today's episode, Donald Miller opens up about how he's changed his perspective on work-life balance over the years. Instead of viewing work-life balance as a thing to achieve, Don recommends seeing it as a journey of constant self-correction and uncovering the deeper issues driving your behavior. Listen in to learn two self-reflection exercises that can help you refocus your life on what really matters and succeed where it counts the most.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we dive into today's episode, I want to tell you about the online marketing |
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| 1:08.3 | Some of you have come out of your holiday break, you were rested, you were ready to go, and you |
| 1:13.0 | already find yourself buried or you feel buried. You feel buried under your business, |
| 1:17.4 | you feel buried under the obligations that you have as a mother, as a father, as a husband, |
| 1:21.6 | as a wife. You've already lost work life balance. I think you're it's a good time, even this |
| 1:27.3 | early in the year, to remind ourselves life is not all about work. It is partly about work because |
| 1:32.8 | it's fun and it provides for us and our families, but it's about so much more than that. And I want |
| 1:37.7 | to share with you some of the perspectives that I've gathered around the idea of work life balance. |
| 1:42.8 | I'm certainly not perfect. I have overworked myself and I've found some ways to kind of navigate the |
| 1:49.0 | middle. If work life balance is an issue for you today, you are going to get some help. |
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