Work-life Balance Is a Bullshit Idea That’ll Constantly Make You Feel Horrible

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ple searching for the ‘perfect’ balance between work and personal life.</p><h1 id="9b6d">I’m sorry to break your heart, my friend. Work-life balance doesn’t exist.</h1><p id="38ad">90% of the time, we focus on specific aspects of our lives and put others in the backseat. And that’s how life is meant to be!</p><p id="96a0">Sometimes it’s our education, job, family, relationships, kids or even mental health. Specific focus is necessary on particular aspects at all moments of our lives. You cannot focus on EVERYTHING together and do an excellent job at it. We’re not gods.</p><h1 id="0d4b">As humans, while achieving balance are moments, they’re never a lifestyle.</h1><p id="53f2">To truly excel in any sphere, you need to put more effort into the other spheres. Since we cannot have all. You don’t see billionaires who have 4-hour wo

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rk days (other than Tim Ferris) or those who have a great family life after working for 18 hours a day.</p><p id="b31e">If you want to gain something, you need to put in the effort, isn’t it? So how’s that the theoretical definition of work-life balance? All we can have is our balance and nothing else:)</p><h1 id="523f">The Problem: We only end up feeling overwhelmed, horrible and guilty about not being able to do everything</h1><p id="e0c6">Thus, focusing too much on the balance and cribbing about it instead of accepting what’s going on and prioritizing things in life.</p><p id="a8bc">No one’s perfect. Even those influencers have the ‘perfect’ lives on social media. And we need to make prioritizing specific aspects at select times the normal. Because that’s how we can exist, and that’s how we can be happy.</p></article></body>

Because it doesn’t exist

Mildly unpopular opinion here, but not for the reasons you think.

The social media world raves after WORK-LIFE BALANCE. You constantly witness folks chilling on the beach, raking thousands of dollars, and having a perfect family — all at the same time. Apparently, a significant cause of The Great Resignation was people searching for the ‘perfect’ balance between work and personal life.

I’m sorry to break your heart, my friend. Work-life balance doesn’t exist.

90% of the time, we focus on specific aspects of our lives and put others in the backseat. And that’s how life is meant to be!

Sometimes it’s our education, job, family, relationships, kids or even mental health. Specific focus is necessary on particular aspects at all moments of our lives. You cannot focus on EVERYTHING together and do an excellent job at it. We’re not gods.

As humans, while achieving balance are moments, they’re never a lifestyle.

To truly excel in any sphere, you need to put more effort into the other spheres. Since we cannot have all. You don’t see billionaires who have 4-hour work days (other than Tim Ferris) or those who have a great family life after working for 18 hours a day.

If you want to gain something, you need to put in the effort, isn’t it? So how’s that the theoretical definition of work-life balance? All we can have is our balance and nothing else:)

The Problem: We only end up feeling overwhelmed, horrible and guilty about not being able to do everything

Thus, focusing too much on the balance and cribbing about it instead of accepting what’s going on and prioritizing things in life.

No one’s perfect. Even those influencers have the ‘perfect’ lives on social media. And we need to make prioritizing specific aspects at select times the normal. Because that’s how we can exist, and that’s how we can be happy.