Stop Searching for a Balanced Life

This is a guest post by Dinette Rivera, expanding on a comment she left on my recent thoughts about work-life balance. I asked her how she’d made changes in her life, and this post is the answer.

I don’t expect to live a balanced life. It is an unattainable goal. I chose a better goal – take control of my life.

All of it.

At one time, I was trying to juggle too many responsibilities. I obsessed about doing them well, and failing miserably. I was miserable!

It really felt like do or die. Find...