LIFE IS ABOUT CADENCE

Ever wonder where the concept of work-life balance came from?

In 1817, a Welsh labor activist Robert Owen wanted to create balance by dividing the day into 8 hours of work, 8 hours of discretionary time, and 8 hours of sleep.

Then it re-emerged in the 1970s during the Women’s Liberation Movement and we’ve been trying to balance work-life ever since.

The error in this logic is that life is designed to ebb and flow, like a sine wave or a heart beat. 

If you try to flatline nature's rhythm, you're nullifying your drive, your energy, your vitality.

Karl Martin points out that you don’t get balance by trying to be balanced.

Life is, more appropriately, a cadence.