Book Titles

Off Balance
Getting BEYOND the WORK-LIFE BALANCE MYTH to Personal and Professional Satisfaction

By Matthew Kelly

Year Published: 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1594630811
Categories: Time Management, Work/Life Balance

60 Quotes Found

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Off Balance:

…the greatest experience of satisfaction often comes after times of great stress and even intense suffering (of one kind or another).

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Off Balance:

…any experience of satisfaction almost always follows some type of delayed gratification.

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Off Balance:

If you cannot measure something, you cannot change it.

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Off Balance:

It is impossible to separate the personal from the professional; the two are intricately linked.

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Off Balance:

Separating the personal from the professional sounds good in theory, but in practice it just doesn’t work.

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Off Balance:

… excellence in any field requires that we miss out on other things.

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Off Balance:

Success always has required and always will require sacrifice.

66

Off Balance:

If success were easy, it would be common. It is difficult and that is why it is rare.

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Off Balance:

…part of growing to maturity, part of growing up, requires that we recognize and accept that we cannot have it all.

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Off Balance:

…the work-life balance discussion has made us feel that we can have it all, and we cannot.

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