Richard Branson: What a Life
When Richard Branson looks at life, he doesn't look at it in compartments or divided, he looks at it as a whole. When asked about work and leisure he responded saying, "I don't think of work as work and play as play. It's all living."
I like it because it talks about continuity of living. There isn't the drudgery of work and the fun of play, or the other way around. There's not these huge highs or low lows. There is just this continuous adventure of living.
I'm not mentioning this only to see how we can relax outside of work, or something like that, I'm mentioning it because I believe it would have a huge, positive impact on the whole of our lives to be able to embrace life in this way.
That way you don't have those endless struggles on balance and other such things that are probably really an illusion anyway. From Branson's way of looking at it, there doesn't need to be a balance, just a continuation of living, no matter what it is you're doing.
From the management way of looking at it, I think it would greatly enhance our impact upon a company to look at life in this way. Loving what you do is fine, but if you lose everything else in the process - that's not living - that's destruction.
To me this is something can at least be meditated and thought upon for life. It's something I've been doing for a while and it really works as I don't feel those conflicting pulls as much as I simply life out my life.
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