Maybe Attaining Work-Life Balance Isn’t the Best Goal for You
<p>At one point several years into my General Counsel role for an S&P 500 public company, I wrote three letters up on my whiteboard. They were to serve as my guideposts for the rest of my career.</p>
<p>The letters were these: F H W.</p>
<p>My boss came in one day and asked “What’re those?”</p>
<p>I told him they stood for Family, Health, and Work. I said that they represented my priorities in life, in that order.</p>
<p>He pondered my whiteboard and my statement for a few moments and said, “Those are nice goals … for your next job.”</p>
<p>Message clear. What got you here is what will keep you here. If you want an easy life, go get an easy job.</p>
<h1>Balance and performance are like Clark Kent and Superman</h1>
<p>That is, you generally don’t see them together.</p>
<p>Nothing in my path to getting a C-suite job by my 30s was remotely the result of balance.</p>
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