Season 2 – Episode #30 – Find Your Wa

In our quest for finding the perfect balance between work and life, we find ourselves always choosing work over life, living more as human “doers” than as human beings. So why don’t we just stop settling for balance and aspire for more? Why don’t we jump off our hamster wheels and focus our energy on growing as human beings? Why are we afraid of taking the dip dive and dedicating time for inner work and emotional labour?

Join this week’s episode of The Kintsugi Podcast as we put myths to sleep and take another step on our road towards creating a better life, a better tomorrow, a life of aspirations and true happiness instead of settling and compromise.

Key Points:

– Work from home- myth busted (01:14)

– We still play the short game- still haven’t learned to live as human beings not human “doers” (03:12)

– Work- life balance- living a life of compromise (05:58)

– When were you really happy- balance is boring! (07:11)

– Find harmony, your sense of wa (08:24)

– Put an end to the myth of balance (11:19)

Quotes:

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” (Mary Oliver)

“ We talk about manifestation and visualizations and aspirations and we aspire to be balanced? Is that the best we can do? What’s so great about living a life where everything is compromise only to get to that flatline…”

“ My guess is that the happiest moments in your life were not ones when you were in a so-called balance, but rather you were fully in the moment or even unbalanced.”

Mentionings:

Mary Oliver– American poet, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize

Most famous poem- The Summer Day

School House Rock– series of animated musical educational short films that aired during the Saturday morning children’s programming block on the U.S. television network ABC and covered themes like grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics.