Nigel Marsh: How to make work-life balance work?
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All the discussions about flexi-time or dress-down Fridays or paternity leave only serve to mask the core issue, which is that ==certain job and career choices are fundamentally incompatible with being meaningfully engaged on a day-to-day basis with a young family.==
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governments and corporations aren't going to solve this issue for us. If you don't design your life, someone else will design it for you.
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we have to be careful with the time frame that we choose upon which to judge our balance. A day is too short; "after I retire" is too long.
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We need to approach balance in a balanced way. Lovely though ==physical exercise== may be, there are other parts to life — there's the ==intellectual side==; there's the ==emotional side==; there's the ==spiritual side==. And to be balanced, I believe we have to attend to all of those areas.