Business/Life Stuff

As some of you may (or may not have) noticed, I changed my blog’s title from “Lisa’s Blog on Communication, Headhunting and Horses” to “Lisa’s Blog on Stuff”. It seemed more appropriate.

When I started this blog, I wanted to present myself from my purely professional side. I wanted to leave personal things out of it and concentrate on business related topics (with a wee bit of horse to keep it light). 

I tried to do that, I really did … sort of.

Pretty early on I realised that it’s not going to work out that way. The main problem seemed to be that I don’t have an undiluted professional side.

The many sides and aspects of my life flow together and are downright impossible to keep strictly divided.

For many years I spent 8, 10 or more hours a day in an office “working”. Afterwards I would go home and have “leisure time”. These two parts of my life were clearly non-related and were spent in absolute opposition to each other.

Work was, well, work. And leisure time was fun. Lots more fun than work, because work was work.

Finally (after the usual soul-searching) I figured out that it doesn’t have to be that way. I can work and live and be me all at the same time. It was only my attitude towards work that I had to change (and some of my habits). By changing my attitude (and those nasty habits), I also changed my priorities and became a much nicer person to spend time with - and work with.
Work became fun because I allowed all areas of my life to flow together - creating an infinitely more holistic me.

Life is too short. If all we do is work and forget who we are, then we have nothing at the end of the day (except maybe the large bank account that we could have anyway). If we are able to combine our work, our hobbies, our families, our friends and ourselves into one big package, then we have life - not just life, but with all probability a prosperous life.  We’ll never worry about having to work until we’re 66, 69 or even 85. We’ll want to. Work is enjoyable - if we are allowed to integrate our lives into it.

That’s work-life balance for me.

So at any rate, my blog got a new title and I got rid of the stress of trying to make all this sound business related. It is business related.

For those of you who are still having some issues in this area, here’s the blog of workplace wellness via yoga (in case reading my blog hasn’t already helped).

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