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Work-Life Balance: “Accomplish What You Want, Not What You Think You Have to”

June 13, 2009 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

Brad Feld on Work-Life Balance

Here is an excellent podcast (summary here) where Venture Capitalist Brad Feld discusses his thoughts on the concept of work-life balance. He also shares the changes he implemented to achieve more balance in his life. Also, see a previous article by Brad on this very topic. Here are key takeaways:

  • The sense of busyness is not the same as the sense of achievement.
  • Balance is an important issue to consider at all ages, as many make the mistake in believing they will “get the balance on the back half of life” and find it shorter than they hoped (“you don’t know when the lights are going to go out (when you are going to die.)”)
  • Work-life balance is an important issue to everyone, yet each person’s approach will be different. There is no one-size fits all approach.

Work-Life Balance is an Individual Choice

Balancing the various demands on our time is by no means easy. It is unrealistic to establish a ratio between ‘work’ and ‘play’ time to pursue the sense of balance.

Balance is an individual choice you have to make based on your personal and professional values and associate relative priorities between these values. Here are five essential guidelines to make such choices.

  • Don’t become a slave to your work. As Mahatma Gandhi once said, “Work is a means of living, it is not life itself.”
  • Slow down your life and develop mindfulness. Simplify your life and inculcate discipline. Focus on the simple things. Control your wants and meet your core needs.
  • Talk to your family and friends and explore ways to introduce more fun into your daily routine.
  • Sleep more. Help around the home. Go on more vacations. Cultivate a hobby or two. Volunteer for a good cause. Do something meaningful with your spare time.
  • Learn to control how you react to other people and their demands on your time, money, or both. Consider the cost on your own resources and become skilled at how to refuse unimportant demands.

Realizing the balance in your life is your prerogative.

Filed Under: Health and Well-being, Sharpening Your Skills Tagged With: Balance, Work-Life

Inspirational Quotations #232

August 3, 2008 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

Dream is not what you see in sleep, dream is the thing which does not let you sleep.
—Anonymous

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

The Three Rules of Work: 1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony. 3. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
—Muhammad Ali (American Sportsperson)

Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.
—Anonymous

Living each moment to its absolute fullest is perhaps the only justification you have for receiving this incredible gift called life.
—Unknown

Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
—George Burns

Face the brutes. That is a lesson for all life—face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.
—Gladys Taber

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.
—Arthur Eddington (English Astrophysicist)

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Inspirational Quotations #212

March 16, 2008 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Love is the greatest gift we can give or be given.
—Unknown

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
—Arthur Brisbane (American Journalist)

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.
—Thomas N. Carruthers

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
—Maria Mitchell

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
—Vidal Sassoon

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
—Henry Van Dyke

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
—Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet)

Life is a long lesson in humility.
—J. M. Barrie (Scottish Novelist)

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti (Indian Philosopher)

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
—Henry Van Dyke

Man succeeds because he believes he can, or he fails because he thinks he will.
—Unknown

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Inspirational Quotations #138

October 15, 2006 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don’t flinch, don’t fall; hit the line hard”.”
—Theodore Roosevelt (American Head of State)

Where you end up isn’t the most important thing. It’s the road you take to get there. The road you take is what you’ll look back on and call your life.
—Tim Wiley

When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.
—John M. Richardson, Jr.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
—Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Luck is a loser’s excuse for a winner’s success.
—Unknown

If you listen, you will hear. If you look, you will see. If you touch, you will feel. If you try, you will be.
—Becky Stanford

Luck is a loser’s excuse for a winner’s effort and commitment. Failure doesn’t happen unless you allow it.
—Anonymous

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
—Robert Frost (American Poet)

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
—Indira Gandhi (Indian Head of State)

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
—Soren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher, Theologian)

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Inspirational Quotations #127

July 30, 2006 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

Be nice and smile to everyone you meet. You don’t know what they are going through, and they may need that smile, and treasure it.
—Unknown

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
—Chinese Proverb

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
—Sophocles (Ancient Greek Dramatist)

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within.
—Helen Keller (American Author)

Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.
—Unknown

A ship is safest at the harbor, but that is not where it is supposed to be.
—N. R. Narayana Murthy (Indian Businessperson)

When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
—The 14th Dalai Lama (Tibetan Buddhist Religious Leader)

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
—Naguib Mahfouz (Egyptian Novelist)

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
—Ambrose Hollingworth Redmoon (James Neil Hollingworth)

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
—John Augustus Shedd

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Inspirational Quotations #126

July 23, 2006 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.
—Hebrew Proverb

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer not neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
—Unknown

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
—Malcolm Forbes (American Publisher)

In its knowledges light, we must think and act not only for the moment but for our time. I am reminded of the great French Marshal Lyautey, who once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow-growing and would not reach maturity for a hundred years. The Marshal replied, In that case, there is no time to lose, plant it this afternoon.
—John F. Kennedy (American Head of State)

There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found|While journeying east and west -|The only folks we really wound|Are those we love the best.|We flatter those we scarcely know,|We please the fleeting guest,|And deal full many a thoughtless blow|To those who love us best.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox (American Poet)

I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.
—J. B. S. Haldane (British Biologist)

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Take a second look … it costs you nothing.
—Chinese Proverb

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
—Buddhist Teaching

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
—Malcolm Forbes (American Publisher)

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
—Thomas Edison (American Inventor)

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