Juggling Act
I have been doing a lot of thinking and discussing our generation’s desire for a work/life balance. I am on a constant search for the right balance of business and personal life. In this moment I have decided maybe it isn’t balance we should be working to achieve. I think we need to work on our juggling skills.
At any given time I am juggling:
my career, spending quality time with my fiancé, keeping up with my friends from college, spending time with my family, building my freelance business, a continual search of knowledge, learning to cook, budgeting, having fun time, blogging, and wedding planning.
In response to Tiffany’s post A Generation of Paradox. I wrote that one of my biggest issues is learning how to deal with separate areas of my life.
I think it is ok to love cooking and also ok to love your job but when you spend your cooking time thinking that you should be working then really you don’t get to enjoy either aspect.
Do you think that learning to balance/juggle (whatever you want to call it) is a generational thing? Or do you think that is something everyone goes through at this particular stage in life.
It’s hard to say for me, because I don’t have much to compare to. I would imagine that when my mom was first out of college and recently married she struggled to find time for everything. I think probably that our generation has taken on a little more than those before us so we are dealing with the same juggling issue but we just have more balls up in the air at once. It is not uncommon for Gen Yers to have a full time job as well as do some sort of freelancing on the side.
What do you think? How do you juggle your life?
