This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1682, an excerpt from the book,

Reframed the Day, Embracing the Craft of Life one day at a time,

by Adam M. Lowenstein, and I'm your narrator just a mallick reading you blogs

or articles every single day of the year, but sometimes book excerpts like today.

I've actually narrated an excerpt from Adam before back in Episode 1600,

and I got another for you today, so with that, let's get right to it,

as we optimize your life.

An excerpt from the book, Reframed the Day, Embracing the Craft of Life one day at a time,

by Adam M. Lowenstein.

Here's one admittedly odd way to balance work and life.

Work like you're a parent of young kids.

It sounds pretty strange, especially coming from someone without children,

but what I've observed is that families with kids don't have much time,

or I imagine, energy, for things that don't satisfy one of two conditions.

Number one, it has to be done.

Or number two, it provides them and their families with real, meaningful value.

They have to prioritize.

They have to work deliberately and efficiently when they're at work.

They don't have the option of staying late to catch them on emails,

because they spend the first three hours of the day on Twitter,

they have to focus on what's most important and what matters.

They have small humans counting on them being there at 5.30 pm.

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