Miyagi Lesson #2: Never Put Passion Before Principle. I came away with a bit of an “I’ll show you” attitude, along with a desire to prove that you can indeed achieve whole life balance. You have to choose because you won’t be both.”Įven if his firm was the only possible investment option we had (it wasn’t), he would not have been the right fit philosophically, we didn’t believe in the same guiding values. “I don’t think you can be a successful father and a successful CEO. During a conversation we had at lunch, the VC made a comment to me that changed everything. The head of the group visited our office in Utah, which was a pretty good sign a deal was on the horizon. My co-founder and I were busy raising money for the first time and talking to a high-profile VC group out of Silicon Valley.
While I wanted my business to succeed, I was also determined to make sure my family didn’t take a backseat. When Lendio was just getting started in 2011, I was married with two young children. Instead, focus on successfully integrating work and life. The key to increasing performance and happiness in all areas is to stop trying to draw definitive lines. This couldn’t be further from the truth-we are multi-faceted beings. The term work-life balance implies that work is something to be kept separate from the rest of our lives, not part of who we are or how we measure our happiness. I’ve never been a fan of the notion that work and life are separate things.
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