[Alicia Davis] Work life balance. When we say that, how many of us are like…
[Stacie Watson] Right! Impossible.
[Alicia Davis] Impossible! You know, Stacie, you and I are always trying to find new ways to talk about things, and you found something this past couple of weeks in researching that we both really resonated with in terms of this topic, right?
[Stacie Watson] Yeah, we were actually looking at the topic of overwhelm. And, of course, you can imagine there’s a strong connection between feelings of overwhelm and the need to feel more in balance. And one of the things that came up was this idea of work-life harmony, and it was just such an interesting way to think about it because I think sometimes, when we think about balance, we think about scales, right? And you know, if everything’s equally balanced and you’ve got the same amount of weight on each side of the scale, it’s perfectly balanced. And when we think about the way our life actually works, that isn’t really what balance looks like. I know in our training session on balance, we really emphasize the fact that we’re always making decisions about where we’re placing time and attention and energy and effort based on what’s going on at home and what’s going on at work. So this idea of harmony feels different, doesn’t it?
[Alicia Davis] It does because it gives you – there’s much more fluidity and flexibility in that, which is really what balance is meant to be. Balance is a constant shifting. It’s a constant looking at what’s most important right now, right? So when we’re thinking about harmony, you know, I might, one week, might be spending a lot of time doing work and not a lot of time doing other things. And then it can shift. Or I can, you know, I do… well this weekend, this past weekend, I did a Saturday session, and – I don’t – we don’t often do Saturday workshops with clients. And so Sunday was for me. I just let myself kind of do nothing. I did Sudoku. I did my New York Times games and just rested. Just rested. And there’s the harmony there. So, you know, I think that harmony can, I think, just give us a little bit of a different mind state or approach as we’re thinking about work and life and how it all kind of flows together.
[Stacie Watson] Absolutely.
[Alicia Davis] So if that’s something that you would like to explore more for you or your staff, we’ve got a session coming up in the Learning Academy on October 30, which is Balance is A Verb, and we’d love to have you join us Academy.TLStransforms.com, and I’m Alicia Davis…
[Stacie Watson] And I’m Stacie Watson…
[Alicia Davis] And we love to offer skills to nonprofits and to leaders and teams. So, thanks so much. Take care.
[Stacie Watson] Thank you.
