Category Archives: Personal growth and planning

The crazy thing I saw in the “goal-free zone”

By Sam Hedlund | Published: February 26, 2011

I really had a relaxing day today. This has been an exhausting, nonstop month, and after starting the weekend by reuniting with some old friends last night, I knew that today I needed to finally take a real day off, not the typical “don’t work, so you can catch up on something else” day. Rather than try to plan anything [...]

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Balance: Overrated or over-strived-for?

By Sam Hedlund | Published: February 25, 2011

A friend emailed me with some good questions about my post on balancing different roles. He wrote: “I am interested in the idea of balance being overrated. Can you give me an example of it? Do you think some imbalance can be more than temporary?” That’s a great question–balance is such a popular idea, yet [...]

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