work-life-balance

Do all the works you can while you still have the strength to work.

Do not worry about who get the credit or praise of the work done. Continue work to give your best.Your reward may come unexpected.

Work for what you want, the pursuit of life.

How do I structure my life to be at peace with who I am, & comfortable with what I__ doing & not doing?

The Ice Cream Cone CharmYou Will Never Work A Day Once You Discover A Passion That Makes Your Life Rich & Sweet

Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.

Work is just a part of our Life, not vice versa. So Live life full time, work work, part time.

If you live for money, no amount will ever satisfy you.

Workdays are, I imagine, rather like learning to ice-skate Torvill and Dean__ The Bolero. They start and end easily enough; it__ the bit in the middle that causes the pain in the arse.

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

[Clayton] Christensen had seen dozens of companies falter by going for immediate payoffs rather than long-term growth, and he saw people do the same thing. In three hours at work, you could get something substantial accomplished, and if you failed to accomplish it you felt the pain right away. If you spent three hours at home with your family, it felt like you hadn't done a thing, and if you skipped it nothing happened. So you spent more and more time at the office, on high-margin, quick-yield tasks, and you even believed that you were staying away from home for the sake of your family. He had seen many people tell themselves that they could divide their lives into stages, spending the first part pushing forward their careers, and imagining that at some future point they would spend time with their families--only to find that by then their families were gone.

You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel__ hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady

No, they didn__ have any money, the sea was dangerous and men were lost, but it was a satisfying life in a way people today do not understand. There was a joinery of lives all worked together, smooth in places, or lumpy, but joined. The work and the living you did was the same things, not separated out like today.

After staring at the poor in the eyes, my thoughts on how best to help people have dramatically changed.

Being a person that others can trust is one of the most sought after qualities in the workplace today. So many leaders and their staff have shown in the recent global financial crisis a lack of trust and integrity amongst themselves and with their clients and other stakeholders.

By leading ourselves effectively, we can learn to lead others as a whole person: mind, body, and spirit.

Christian culture has too often offered women a push toward contentment that can numb us to our own desires, without offering the tools to discern whether those desires could be good or Holy-Spirit-inspired.

Always take some of the play, fun, freedom and wonder of the weekend into your week & your work