Mothers seem to strive for this more than anyone else. We are always trying to balance our lives, whether we are working moms, stay at home moms, step moms and especially if you are a mom entrepreneur who works from home.
Kelly, mortgage mummi thinks it is B^llS&!t! Ha ha
Another blog post about the same thing titled lower your standards!
This has got me thinking... why are we searching for balance?
I think we should strive for HARMONY.
If you are striving for Balance, it means you are static, not moving. It also means to me, that it all could come crashing down with one wrong move.
If we look for harmony in our lives, it means that our lives are fluid, are filled with music and have plenty of opportunities for dancing!
It might mean that some days we are "out of tune" but even out of tune, it is still music and you can still dance!
It means that your life is ever changing and moving, and as I think it should be.
So stop googling "work life balance" and go find some music to dance to!
I think that achieving harmony is a great way to look at it, but I believe there are many dads out there looking for "harmony" too. Whatever you call it, when I meet people who don't feel they have balance, it's usually because they spend a lot more time than they want to doing something that they don't want to be doing. If this is why you don't have balance or harmony then I strongly feel that you need to change how you spend your time. The nice thing about the fluidity of harmony is that it allows us to have a crazy day or week where we spend more time working or volunteering our time away from our families then we might like, but if we have harmony, we can have that time back with our family within a relatively short time frame.
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