Quotes About Balance

And I know, sometimes storms were necessary. Even flowers needed to be watered. But... yeah.

Ego Check. Damn it. How many would he need in one day?

Lean against the edge, sweetheart. I'm falling off."--Brent Greene

What we want is not always what we need.

A slice of chocolate cake - priorities! - a scoop of chicken potpie, slice of chocolate cake, scoop of yam casserole, slice of chocolate cake, two scoops of mashed potatoes, a slice of chocolate cake, a scoop of buttery green beens, a slice of chocolate cake -

All I want from a man is everything and nothing at the same but different times, sometimes and never but always.

No battles within himself. No worries. No death. Just…peace.

Grass isn't greener on the other side. Grass is greener when you water it.

Sometimes war is the only path to peace.

Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.

God is not impressed with grandiose accomplishments from someone who ignores his God-given calling to his wife and children.

some readers are tempted to ignore the challenges of their own lives and to live completely in the alternative reality of books. This can be dangerous and sinful, a rejection of the real world in which God has placed us.

Do not add to the cross in your life by becoming so busy that you have no time to sit quietly before God. Do not resist what God brings into your life. Be willing to suffer if that is what is needed. Overactivity and stubbornness will only increase your anguish.

everyone needs idle time, or slack time. If no one has slack time, wip gets stuck in the system. Or more specifically, stuck in queues, just waiting.

However, we must remind everyone that improvement of daily work is more important than daily work itself, and that all teams must have dedicated capacity for this (e.g., reserving 20% of all cycles for improvement work, scheduling one day per week or one week per month, etc.). Without doing this, the productivity of the team will almost certainly grind to a halt under the weight of its own technical and process debt.

Even though I can't take the entire day off, I

When you spend all your time firefighting, there's little time or energy left for planning.

Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life by Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry. This

provider, parent, spouse, and change agent.

Erik then grows still and merely says, "To fix your problem, you need to do a lot more than just learning how to say no. That's the tip of the iceberg.

Wes says defensively, "We all try to juggle the competing priorities as best as we can. That's life, right? Priorities change.

Paige might be able to stop working. But is it worth having to deal with

Something is really screwy in the world when I'm finding reasons to thank Development and Security in the same day.

Something seems wrong in a world where half the e-mail messages sent are urgent.