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Be You with BU

It's Okay To Drop The Ball

Be You with BU

Adolfo Rodriguez

Entrepreneurship, Business, Self-improvement

5.0574 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I talk about why I don't believe in work-life balance. Listen up because many people judge that statement before hearing me explain why. Leave a review and let's talk about it!

Transcript

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0:00.0

I don't believe there's such thing as work-life balance, you know, so people can hate me.

0:05.6

It's just my experience.

0:08.3

I have a different philosophy.

0:09.8

I think life's like a teeter-totter.

0:12.0

You only have 100%.

0:13.9

You have like if your battery is full at 100, you only have battery to give to whatever you're focused on.

0:22.5

Right.

0:22.7

So if today I give, if I have like, if you want to do something unbelievable and

0:28.9

outstanding, I'm saying like you want to be world class at something, there's no way

0:33.3

you can divide it into 10 different chunks and give every single chunk 10% of that battery.

0:38.7

Because if you do, then how much are you really giving to that area of your life?

0:43.9

You're giving it 10%.

0:45.2

So how can you say that you've accomplished your potential by giving it a 10% commitment?

0:50.4

And so I'm just a big believer that I don't think if you're truly inspired to do what you love and you're truly inspired to go out and become all you can be, so to speak, then I don't believe there's any prior.

1:02.5

I don't think there's any priorities that are ever in conflict.

1:05.7

What a lot of people try to do is they try to use work-like balance, in my opinion, as an excuse to not go for

1:14.1

their potential, right? So let me give you an example. And this is, I just want the context to be in

1:20.6

spirit. I'm not saying areas of your life aren't important. I'm just saying there's different

1:24.5

times in your life that, you know, if you want to be

1:27.6

world-class at something or you want to, you got to understand, I'm telling you an extreme, right?

1:32.5

The comfort, the play it safe is, you know, let's just, let's do this for two hours and let's do

1:38.5

this for two hours. But you take a look at Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant. And if you just think

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