Dave Evans

And he tried to talk himself into success as its own reward, and he just couldn't do it.

So for him to become coherent, he's going to have to go recalibrate his values and recalibrate his priorities.

So he's in a transition.

That's the right thing to do.

Now, there are other people who keep re-upping that incoherence because they're getting the money or they're fearful of the change or their wife will think they're stupid.

You know, there's lots of reasons people get stuck in an incoherent place.

But it's soul-sucking, so be careful.

Oh.

Well, I've never had balance as a goal.

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.