How to Find Balance Between Work and Personal Life

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AVAlexander VolchekBalance between work and personal lifeHealth, rest, and lifestyleWork, profession, and career pathFreedomTime

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• 00:00How do you find a balance between work and your personal life? It's interesting: this question seems so simple, so basic. How do you do it? At the very beginning of the video, I want to offer a starting point.Balance between work and personal life · Time
• 01:49“It matters what my boss thinks of me. It doesn't matter what I do every evening. It doesn't matter what my relationship with my parents is like. It doesn't matter how I treat other people.”Time · Health
• 03:52I'm asking you to develop this awareness not to make a change for a week or a month, but to make a change for the whole of your life ahead.Time · Awareness · Meditation
• 05:45Fundamentally, everything has equal priority. Please don't turn this into an argument. Don't.Health · Freedom · Ego
• 07:42And immediately we give some particular action priority. To work through this instead of getting caught in those arguments, the task is to observe it. Observing takes a great deal of work.Habit · Freedom

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• 01:53

  “It doesn't matter what I do every evening. It doesn't matter what my relationship with my parents is like. It doesn't matter how I treat other people.”

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  The most important thing is not to look for what's better and what's worse.

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• 02:35

  There's an interesting paradox: once some time has passed—five, ten, fifteen years of life—we can all easily look back and see how unimportant certain events or actions were.

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  Or how much importance I attached to my worries about finding my first job or my relationship with my boss, even though none of it changed anything.

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• 05:30

  People look for balance in time. First, though, they need to look for balance in the importance they give to events and in understanding that everything happening in life is meant to happen.

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• 06:31

  That growth and expansion of you, of the events happening in your life and the number of them, lie in neutralizing importance.

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  For some reason, people think that a neutral attitude removes our feelings, our emotions, our creativity.

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  “Why wouldn't you do something so simple?” Try observing this for at least a few months.

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  Observing for several months means constantly remaining in this state, making it a habit.

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  It will make you even more alive than you are now and broaden your perception, which is guaranteed to lead to expansion: expansion of your personality, your life, your being, true expansion as a human being.

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