Work Life Balance is Impossible

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?

Our goal is not balance. It’s for each piece of our life puzzle to support the other pieces as much as possible. To see them as additive to the others, not subtractive. For the life buckets to be integrated, not separated.

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.

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