In my recent post What’s in a Name?, I questioned the validity of the term “Work-Life Balance”. Is it obsolete in our post-Covid reality, where work and home lives are more blended than ever? If so, what replaces it? This blog, ‘A Fine Balance’, features people from a range of backgrounds sharing their experiences ofContinue reading “The Results are in… Drumroll, Please”
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The Pursuit of Balance: Plain Sailing or Pushing Against the Wind?
The pursuit of balance is not always plain sailing. In fact, often it seems that finding balance is more like pushing against the wind. I’ve observed this many times now through interviewing people for my blog. I start each interview asking my subject to put a figure on what they perceive to be their work:lifeContinue reading “The Pursuit of Balance: Plain Sailing or Pushing Against the Wind?”
New Year Musings
I recently discovered the term “hobby blogging”, which is arguably becoming a less “relevant” medium since its peak around 2006, and the subsequent meteoric rise of social media. Apparently, research has been done on the subject, concluding that few “hobby blog” projects endure beyond their first year. I started blogging about work, life and theContinue reading “New Year Musings”
Lockdown 2.0: The Next Chapter
Stuck at home during the first Coronavirus lockdown, I noticed that many of the podcasts and articles I enjoyed listening to and reading mostly covered stories of people celebrated for their impressive accomplishments and accolades. It started to get under my skin that this was a narrow representation of success. What about those people whoContinue reading “Lockdown 2.0: The Next Chapter”
Work-Life Balance Profiles: An Introduction
The concept of work-life balance has long been considered obsolete. All the more so in our post-Covid world, where work and home lives are more blended than ever. New models have been suggested to update the term. But I haven’t yet found a convincing alternative to capture the distinction between the time people spend doingContinue reading “Work-Life Balance Profiles: An Introduction”
Stung
A literal and metaphorical lesson played itself out last week when I did what I always tell my children not to do: I panicked in the presence of a wasp. I admit, I yelped and jumped out of my seat as it made its beeline for me. Like a puppet yanked up and shaken byContinue reading “Stung”
Define Success
The blog I posted last week about work-life values attracted more interest than I had anticipated. It’s my first time dabbling in this sort of writing so I wasn’t sure what kind of reaction to expect, or indeed what reaction I wanted. I suppose as a starting point, I was curious to strike up aContinue reading “Define Success”
A Fine Balance
The delicate work-life balance I’d carefully constructed was knocked off kilter at the start of the Coronavirus lockdown, when I took leave from my job in order to home-school and care for my three children and support my NHS key-worker husband. For as long as I can remember, I have been intent on balancing motherhood with a careerContinue reading “A Fine Balance”