Work/Life Balance?

We’ve all heard about work/life balance, but has anybody really been able to demonstrate what this balance is like?

Work is supposed to be part of life, not the other way around. Although, for too many, it is.

Nevertheless, creating a dynamic work/life balance is possible. And not just the illusion of a possible balance as a good money-making scheme.

Marcus Buckingham is right when he states that “work isn’t designed to help us present the best of ourselves” and that’s why most working people say “Thank God it’s Friday.”

Marcus is also right regarding the many lies about work, specifically when he states:

“Your organization’s culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. People’s competencies should be measured and their weaknesses shored up. People crave feedback. These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they’re lies.”

However, Marcus is only focusing on one part of the equation.

The reason that 9 out of 10 people are miserable at work is not because they are not “fit enough,” but because their organizational structure was never designed to make them fit, regardless of their fitness.

Yes, the pervasive bureaucratic structure (restrictive & tropophobic) was deliberately designed…