One of the age old questions is: how to balance your personal and professional lives?
Work-life balance is the million dollar question.
The reason the answer is ever elusive for so many people is because they’re buying into the myth that the personal and the professional are separate.
In today’s episode we’re talking about the fact that the personal and the professional aren’t separate, and debunking the myth that they are.
The problem with seeing work and life as two separate things is why so many ...
One of the age old questions is: how to balance your personal and professional lives?
Work-life balance is the million dollar question.
The reason the answer is ever elusive for so many people is because they’re buying into the myth that the personal and the professional are separate.
In today’s episode we’re talking about the fact that the personal and the professional aren’t separate, and debunking the myth that they are.
The problem with seeing work and life as two separate things is why so many people fail to achieve the balance they strive for.
How you show up and what has impacted you personally, is going to show up in your professional life. And what shows up and has impacted you professionally is going to show up in your personal life. It’s a feedback loop.
There’s a saying, “Wherever you go, there you are.”
You can’t escape yourself and your experiences.
But most folx try to keep the personal and the professional completely separate...which compartmentalizes you and keeps parts of you fragmented off from the other, requiring you to expend tremendous amounts of energy trying to keep them separate. The result is you end up feeling awful...while simultaneously getting triggered by people at work and not understanding why.
Women often seek me out because they're having challenges in their personal relationships. As we work together, they realize that as they start to shift the ways they show up in their personal relationships, their professional lives and relationships start to shift as well.
Teams start performing better, employee satisfaction and retention improves, and revenue grows, all as a result of these female leaders shifting how they show up in their personal lives.
When you recognize that the personal and the professional are not mutually exclusive, you begin to allow yourself to show up with greater authenticity, in all areas of your life.
As you do so your brain expends less energy in trying to compartmentalize the two parts of your life, which results in you feeling less exhausted and more energized so that you can actually enjoy both of these parts of your life.
It’s important to know this because it’s going to be the basis of episodes from here on out. :)
PS: Since I know this is a new and different concept for most people, I’ve created a bonus private podcast episode to support you with this. The episode is a short practice that you can do in less than 5 minutes and will help you deepen your understanding of this.
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