9/23/10

Name of the Game: Work/life balance: the holy grail

Over the last decade the search of "work/life balance," the holy grail of advanced workers in all places, has taken on mythic proportion, spawning a complete industry - books, retreats, seminars, helping professionals, corporate initiatives, algorithms, assessments, etc. dedicated to discovering and sustaining the precise tipping level to outline how we should always dwell our lives.

This quest, now an finish in itself, saps a whole lot of our vitality, focus and sources, which critically defeats the purpose. In a time of such uncertainty, how is this handy?