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What Does Work-Life Balance Mean To You? Let Your Individual Needs Define It
Work-life balance is one of those phrases that either resonates with people or it doesn’t. It’s a term that often gets negative responses like; it’s not attainable, forget about it, balance doesn’t exist or it’s a myth. It also gets renamed to terms like work-life blend, work-life integration, work-life harmony. If what we are talking about is how to have work and our personal life coexist, what does it matter what we call it. I think we can all agree that the term work-life balance does not literally mean trying to equally distribute your time between work and your personal life.
Years ago, the term was used to make sure workers were getting a needed day off; where they were able to rest and not have to think about work. Fast forward to the digital age and now we have continual access to work. We can now be ‘on’ 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The term work-life balance somehow began to take on the literal meaning, that you must...
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Dr. Lisa Herbert
Author, Coach, Speaker
Dr. Herbert is a mother, wife, physician and personal and executive coach who is dedicated to helping women physician leaders find their voice prioritize self-care, balance work and family and advance as leaders in the healthcare industry. She provides coaching, consulting to organizations, workshops and training on leadership, communication, physician burnout and work-life balance.
