Beyond work/life balance: Success Elements

Here's an interesting article on the CEO Refresher talking about looking at both your professional and personal life in terms of four "Success Elements." It says the traditional way of thinking in terms of work/life balance is flawed.

Much has been written about finding a harmonious balance between work and life, and this article does not intend to discredit any of it. It is essential to strike a balance between the professional and personal. True success is multidimensional, and if you focus exclusively on work your personal life suffers, and vice versa. Limiting your perspective of success to the two dimensions of work and personal life can lead to a lack of balance within both professional and personal success. To separate life and work into disparate entities misses the point of true success.

The author solves this by outlining several Success Elements that are applicable to both worlds. Those elements are:

* Health
* Wealth
* Wisdom
* Relationships

The idea is that any one of those out of whack will throw the whole system out of whack.

Interesting approach.

Curt Rosengren
Passion Catalyst ^SM

Comments

[Joe]

I read that article and it actually better than I had expected. Thanks for posting it.

[rose]

I'll second that!