Work-life balance is almost a paradox. If you substitute work with career, money and life with family, health, satisfaction, you would understand that in this day and time, the pursuit of one almost automatically subverts the other! If you are not cautious, it is near impossible to maintain a healthy balance between the two.
I mean, how do I maintain the upward growth in my daily preoccupation – be it a full time job or an engaging business – and still make time for the important persons in my life?
A normal day doesn’t have enough hours to deal with the worries of the day.
When I was in engineering school, we learnt a lot about real and imaginary numbers. The amount of pure and applied math that I did makes me wonder how I can use that knowledge to change my situation. I wish I could expand my day to 24+3i hours!
Just today, I met a Stanford Professor who reminded me of Fast Fourier Transforms. Just to indulge you … Fourier analysis converts a signal from its original domain (often time or space) to a representation in the frequency domain and vice versa (Wikipedia).
I wish they taught me the real math. The mathematics of counting money. That is the kind of math that my 13 month old son would understand.
Anyway, we were not talking math but work-life balance.
I have my own twisted version that if I can manage work-wife balance, then par adventure, life will be sorted.
In a town hall meeting with WVI staff at the Nairobi office on 26 March 2014, Kelvin Jenkins (C.E.O and President, World Vision International) opined that work life balance is 3-dimensional entailing:
- Meeting the current need – as much as possible, deal with priorities as they arise, rather than putting them off.
- Addressing the past neglect – as soon as you become aware that you have let relationships slide, try to take action to rebuild them, including asking for forgiveness where necessary.
- Keeping the marble on the bowl – if life is like an inverted
bowl with a marble rolling on it, you need to keep lifting different sides in turn to keep the marble in place. That means lots of small, regular adjustments in different areas of life, rather than a huge lift on only one side.
Work-life balance is not just cliché. This is the real demand of fathers if we have to influence the future of our children.
Daddy Chronicles 
I totally agree with you on the point that work-life balance is a paradox and its quite difficult to achieve. And just as you said for you if you are able to achieve work-wife balance then you are as good as sorted, this may not just apply to you but to many people since as they say “behind every successful man there is a woman”
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