In this episode I’m talking about blending work and life in a very real way, coming to you from the middle of the school holidays ready to bust down these work-life balance boxes.
“I have both the privilege and the challenge of blending work and parenting through the school holidays. I absolutely would not have it any other way. I want this choice. I love having the choice that I get to work from home and work when I want. What happens though, for a lot of us is that we still have these old structures and these old ideas of when we can work and when we can't. When we should work and when we shouldn't. When working is perceived as taking away from family time, where we shouldn't be sacrificing family time to work.”
“For a long time I felt like it was okay to be present with my family during what is traditionally known as work time… Monday to Friday, 9-5. It was great and to be celebrated and seen as an incredible freedom to be able to spend time with family and not have to work those hours. But to work on a public holiday or a weekend felt like it was still frowned upon. When we start blending work and life we need to take both of them out of their boxes. We can choose to work when we want and we can choose to be present with our family when we want. What an amazing lifestyle to have created.”
“If you consider having no structure at all and you have all of these work things you want to do, life things you want to do, activities with the kids… it feels like there won’t be time for any of it. This is the fear that we need to combat by creating this sense of safety and security with some structure, with just enough structure. To get from… there’ll never be time to do this, I’m not going to get my stuff done, people aren’t going to see what I do, no one is going to hire me, I’m not going to make any money. It’s this whole spiral we fall down. All because we don’t know WHEN we might do our work even if there are all sorts of spaces available for it to be done. We can’t see them past the fear.”
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