What Does It Look Like? - Work/Life Balance (Part Deux)

What Does It Look Like? - Work/Life Balance (Part Deux)

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. —Charles Kingsley

BUT A DAY was coming when I would be plagued by the conflict of work/life balance.

Fast-forward eleven years. Balancing a long commute with two teenagers and a demanding career in a Fortune 500 company wasn’t that hard either—until I lost my wonder for it all.

Spending nearly three hours in the car every day, becoming less important to my children, and realizing that the top rung of the ladder was not where I wanted to be caused my excitement for all things from work to family to wane. And with waning comes complaining.

It’s not that my circus performance was any more difficult than it was in my young-mom days, because it wasn’t harder—just different. My conflict began to occur because I failed to be entertained by any of my own acts.

Work/life balance? I grappled with the topic for about six months and then realized that I seriously needed an attitude adjustment. I realized that for me, work/life balance was more about what was in my head than what was on my to-do list.

As Ava grows, she’ll watch her Sugar run a marketing company (she comes to the office with me on Mondays). She’ll sit with me as I craft Truth Nuggets and blog to my girlfriends all over the world. She will watch me as I write books, and I will send her pictures as I travel to faraway countries. She will watch me balance my priorities as I love her Pop and invest time to play with her each Monday. And although there are lots of acts going on in my circus, I will show her that work/life balance is not as much about the number of rings in our circus as it is about the pure rush of climbing on that pony.

You thrill me, LORD, with all you have done for me!I sing for joy because of what you have done. (Psalm 92:4)

Could you use more excitement in your circus?