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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to stop thinking of work and life as being in opposition.

There is enough space in the 168 hours we all have each week

to devote plenty of time to anything that matters.

By telling ourselves a story of time abundance,

it becomes far more possible to make work and life fit together.

Because I write about issues of careers and families, I often use the phrase

work- life balance.

That's the term that people search for,

so it makes sense to use it.

But I've really never liked the phrase.

The implication is that work and life are on opposite sides of the scale, hence the balance

metaphor. For one to go up, the other must go down.

It seems like a zero-sum game, but it really isn't, or at least not within the categories that people usually care about.

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