The best thing ever written about “work-life balance” - Austin Kleon

The question isn’t how do you balance work and life, but how do you create a healthy relationship among work and the various other important areas of life?

There’s a fine balance between obsessing about your craft and being there for your family. It’s akin to walking a tightrope. Your legs are shaky and you’re trying to find your center. Whenever you lean too far in one direction, you correct your course and end up overleaning in the other direction. So, you correct by leaning the other way again. Tha

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When we describe work and life as things to be balanced, we are suggesting that work and life are at odds with each other. More time or energy allocated to work means less time and energy allocated to life. 
This is obviously absurd, though. Work is just another part of life like family, community, food, fitness, creativity, travel, fun, spiri... See more

Work is not something to be balanced against everything else. It’s one of the many buckets in our life, sometimes the most important one if you’re hardwired that way, and something we should figure out how best to integrate with the other areas in a healthy, supportive way.

This has been the core question I’ve sat with for the last decade—how to balance money and meaning on the entrepreneurial path. And there are three archetypal ways that I’ve seen people approach the question:

• The deferred life plan


• Being bivocational


• Choosing to integrate

Finally, the topic of balance isn’t complete without discussing work-life balance. In startups, especially for founders where the lines between work and life often blur, achieving this balance can feel elusive. Yet it’s essential to sustainable success. True balance isn’t about rigidly separating work from life - it’s about integrating the two in a

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