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Balance

So the (only) slide I had in my coaching session had 3 bubbles where one needs to reach balance - personal fitness, job fitness and career fitness. The coach says women tend to focus on job fitness - focus on getting the job done, try to spend time with family - mostly insufficient for personal fitness, and not really focus on career fitness. I see why but the one that I find might need to be multiple bubbles is personal fitness - I think she kind of panicked when I told her that my personal fitness included at least 2 hours per day of charity work and that i was looking into one hour on saturday mornings to go to the gym amd try to be (more) fit in the real sense of the word. She was relieved to find out I function relatively ok without sleep but I do wondered what she would think about Law 4 All, my obsession with setting up something and my inner desire to write a book. At least she agrees women can't have it all. I agree that people can't have it all in general. My life was hard as it was before I had C and tried to juggle all the moving pieces. Once I told B that maybe God should have distributed will differently. I have too much will and too little time - but i recognise I may not want to be otherwise. 
And let's not talk about career fitness just yet!
#leanin #hbsalumlife 

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