Dave Evans

I've never seen a balanced person.

I mean, if balance means...

You know, all of my allocation of time and energy precisely reflects my value prioritization set.

You know, the perfect layering of the layer cake of my life looks just like my values at all times.

I've never had that moment.

So we talk about, you know, not balance as much as just the dashboard of what is your current portfolio?

What's the mix of your life?

So balance is a resource allocation question.

And so, you know, so you have to decide what your priorities are going to be.

One of my examples is one of my older sisters ran a graduate school in education at a small private college.

And she'd been doing a PhD's job for 15 years and finally decided it was time to get the PhD and actually be the person she was supposed to be.

So she's working full-time running a graduate school while going full-time to school getting a PhD.

And she called her friends and said, I'm a little overbooked.

I've calculated I have six unscheduled hours in the next five years.

True story.

I have very little time to talk to anybody.

You're not making the cut.

I didn't make the cut.

And that was a radically imbalanced lifestyle, and it was exactly the right coherent thing for her to do.

Highly coherent.