Your Priorities Are People and Things
Think in proportions rather than balance, and decide how to invest the finite energy you have each day across your work, your sleep, the people you love, your self-care and your home.
Dandapani sets aside the idea of work-life balance and asks a different question: how do you want to proportionately invest the finite energy you have each day? He walks through where that energy actually goes, from work and sleep to family, friends, self-care and the dog.
What this talk covers
- The aim is not reaching work-life balance or seeking a balanced life, but thinking in terms of proportions.
- You have a finite amount of energy each day, and the question is how you want to proportionately invest it.
- Work already takes eight or nine hours a day, and sleep takes a further stretch of it.
- The rest has to be invested across your spouse, your children, parents or siblings, friends, your own personal time and self-care, exercise and meditation, your home, and walking your dog.
- Always think proportionate about how you invest energy into all your priorities, and those priorities are usually people and things.
Always think proportionate, how we proportionally invest our energy into all our priorities in our life.Dandapani
Questions
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He does not frame it as balance. Work takes eight or nine hours and sleep takes a further stretch of the day, so the question is how you proportionately invest the energy that remains across the people and things that matter to you.
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Priorities can be people and things, and often are both: your spouse, your children, your parents or siblings, your friends, your own personal time and self-care, your home, and even walking your dog.
Transcript
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It's not about reaching a work-wide balance or seeking a balanced life. Think in terms of proportions. So you have a finite amount of energy each day. How do you want to proportionately invest that energy in your life? If you're working, you probably spend eight, nine hours a day working. Hopefully you can get to sleep 78 hours a day. Now how are you going to take the rest of
of your energy and invest it into everything else in your life. Your spouse, your children, perhaps other family members like your parents or siblings, your friends,
your own personal time, your own self-care, showering, eating, maybe exercising, meditating, looking after your home, walking your dog. Always think proportionate,
how we proportionally invest our energy into all our priorities in our life. And those priorities can be people and things, and often are people and things.