so i am uncomfortable with this concept of work-life balance um because balance is achieved with two opposing forces and why should work and life be in opposition right and uh i i don't think there's if you don't have work life balance if you're struggling to find work-life balance no amount of yoga will fix that right um taking off an extra week of vacation and by the way vacation means you're not working on the beach that's just telecommuting from a beach um um but i believe in in uh that the that you're able to build a
life where work and personal life become uh not only do you say interchangeable but smooth and what i mean by that is they're not necessarily confined by hours in a day but rather where i choose to give effort so for example if it's four o'clock in the afternoon technically part of the work day and you're hankering for a run because it's a day like this you go for a run like that's you know and one of the things one of the mistakes that i've made was treating things that are important to my mind my body
my spirit as stub something that i'm supposed only supposed to do off hours or on weekends but just like i can't decide when i have an idea sometimes it's on saturday and sometimes it's in the evening i also can't decide when i need a break sometimes it's something i feel that's something i plan for and so we've gotten really good it's imperfect you know sometimes responsibility takes precedence but we've gotten really good in our little company that if somebody wants to take an afternoon to be with their kids they put in their calendar with my
kids a long time ago i used to have when i when i had um a different form of a business before all of this stuff we used to have things called duvet days which i i i remember we had like five duvet days a year or something and a do they day was you wake up in the morning you just don't want to come to work you're totally healthy or it's a beautiful day and i just would rather go to the beach so you'd call up and leave a message at eight o'clock in the morning
or seven o'clock and we'll be like hey i'm taking a duvet day i'll see you tomorrow and no one would bother you right and people like that's amazing that you do that sign i'm like people are doing that anyway it's called hey i think i have a 24-hour bug i'm going to be at work today and they go to the beach so just call it out um you know schedule time at the gym in the middle of the day if that's when you like working out and i just found the the more seamless that we
can make work in life um the more we start to enjoy both more because they're not they're not opposing
