Lisa Rousseau writes a great post here on Work/Life balance and startup companies. Her post, and the video from Jason Calcanis inspired me to add my own comments.
I am sure we all have experianced this pull of passions, from work (career), home life, and time for ourselves. There are so many things to focus on and it seems so little time.
As for Jason’s YouTube video, here’s my 2 cents
1) The notion that there are “Excellent”, “Great”, “Average” people I would say is incorrect. I think everyone is ‘excellent’ at something, and many are average at most things. The trick is probably to figure out what your are excellent at and what you are passionate about and work at that.
You can have multiple passions and not just one, but sometimes you have to focus intensily one just one of your passions, but then you need to move on to others.
The person who works 150 hours per week for 12 weeks is really no different then the person who works 40hrs for 52 weeks, they just reach their goals in different ways.
Unlike the Olympics, your life doesn’t have to be a race to the finish, he who dies with the most toys isn’t really the winner.
I am a fan of Covey’s idea from his 7 Habits. Imagine you are at the end of you life looking back and ask yourself which would you regret most, the short term 150hrs week or the life long 40/hrs week. There is no wrong answer, it is a personal decision.
Regardless, awesome post Lisa, Glad to see you’re blogging again whatever the reason!
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