Quotes About Balance

While people often say there's not enough time, remember that you'll always have less attention than time. Full attention is where you do your best work, and everyone's going to be looking to rip it from you. Protect and preserve it.

How can I possibly explain that what I do with my time and what I do for money are completely different things?

if you can't see your rocks on your calendar, they might as well not exist. This is doubly important for things like sleep and exercise. If you don't put those in first, no one will.

when you're very competitive, you get good at the thing you're competing with people on. But it comes at the expense of losing out on many other things.

In other words, the extremes inform the mean, but not vice versa.

The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu, the Tao Te Ching as translated by Witter Bynner.

I do not believe in work-life balance. I believe that if you view your work as a calling, it is a labor of love rather than laborious. When your work is a calling, you are not approaching the amount of hours you are working with a sense of dread or counting the minutes until the weekend. Your calling can become a life-affirming engagement that can provide its own balance and spiritual nourishment.

You should set up your life so that it is as comfortable and happy as possible—and so that it accommodates your creative work.

Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence, or a vice: It is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets. The

lack of time is actually lack of priorities.

Money in a business is like gas in your car. You need to pay attention so you don't end up on the side of the road. But your trip is not a tour of gas stations.

lack of time is actually lack of priorities. Take

The Passion Trap: How to Right an Unbalanced Relationship by relationship therapist and psychologist Dean C. Delis.

Avoid compulsively making things worse.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

Let life ripen and then fall. Will is not the way at all."—Lao Tzu, from The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu

Cuando tengas que optar entre dos cosas… elige ambas. 3.ª ley: Múltiples proyectos conducen a múltiples éxitos.

Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should.

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1. Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? 2. Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?

When 99 percent of your life is your work, either you are really bad at what you do or you are completely off balance with the rest of your life; neither is something to be proud of.

The lesson: Rather than striving to be superhuman, I would aspire to be less "super" and more "human.

Is it really necessary to work like a slave to live like a millionaire?

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