Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

a plan for enlisting their help with something that matters to you. Make sure that this plan explains how their assistance will be mutually beneficial—good for them and for you.

How would you like to be remembered by your descendants? What would you like colleagues to say at your retirement dinner? If the words don’t flow, draw a picture, make a sculpture, or maybe even produce a video. Studies have shown that if you can visualize yourself successfully achieving your long-term goals, producing the legacy you want to leave,

For a jazz quartet to produce great music, discipline is as important as improvisation and serendipity. It’s not magic, even if the result is often magical.

discovering ancient cities and settling wild frontiers. I read about warriors and explorers and statesmen, but I’d look up from the book and stare out of the window onto the green, freshly mowed grass,” he remembers in his book.5 “It seemed that all the corners of the earth had been explored, all the great battles fought.” Greitens’s parents, their

service on behalf of a purpose beyond immediate needs can produce transcendence.

He told me that he sees the integration of his life occurring, not in specific moments of perfect balance, but rather in phases. The strands of his life weave together over the course of time—from boxing, to humanitarian work, to military service, to providing a means for healing by his fellow veterans. For Greitens, leadership is about harmony ove

Picture what happens in a typical day. You wake up: Whom are you with? What do you do throughout the day? What impact are you having?

but they also list examples of how she and her husband have learned to focus on the things that matter, accept less than perfection on the things that don’t, and be creative when being pulled in different directions. Building a solid foundation for sharing domestic responsibilities involved, for example, her husband conjuring a way to move his new