Can You Really Achieve Work-Life Balance? If So, How?
There’s a lot of talk about how to achieve work-life balance.
But I don’t think it’s possible.
There’s a lot of talk about how to achieve work-life balance.
But I don’t think it’s possible.
How do you spend the majority of your time? Is it traveling, exploring a new hobby, or being with family?
Simon Mainwaring is the bestselling author of We First and Lead With We: The Business Revolution That Will Save Our Future, which comes out in November. He is the founder & CEO of We First, Inc. and he was a finalist for Global Australian of the Year in 2015.
We all know life is hard, in multiple ways. We’ve all experienced challenging times, especially over the past year.
Do you struggle to stay productive and motivated?
It could be that you aren’t structuring your day in the right way.
It’s amazing to me that what I (and many others) have talked about for over the past decade is finally becoming reality.
That reality is the end of the 9-to-5 workday.
What does a typical day look like for you?
It’s a question I’ve asked to hundreds of CEOs and top business leaders around the world.
One of the things that I have personally struggled with for a long time is seeing beyond my work.
This is especially challenging when you work for yourself. For many years I always felt a but guilty for not spending my free time working.
Even those of you who have more traditional full-time jobs I’m sure can relate. For many of us it’s quite hard to separate work and life, especially now during COVID-19.
Jim Heppelmann is the CEO of PTC, a technology software company with 6,500 employees in 30 countries. Jim was named one of “7 IoT leaders to Watch in 2017” by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, he was recognized as “IoT CEO of the Year” by PostScapes, “Technology CEO of the Year” by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, and he received the CAD Society Leadership Award for his work with the Internet of Things.
Dan Pink is the bestselling author of six books including Drive, To Sell is Human, and his newest book, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. In 2019 London based Thinkers 50 named Dan the 6th most influential management thinker in the world.