work-life, not worklife

Stephen Covey, the celebrated writer talked about work-life balance here. so this is an exerpt for it, for those who lazy to press the link.

-- Discipline 1: Focus on the Wildly Important. This means you need to narrow your focus down to the one, two or three most important goals you must achieve. These goals are so important that if you don’t achieve them, nothing else you achieve really matters much.

-- Discipline 2: Act on the Lead Measures. After you’ve narrowed your focus to the few key goals you must accomplish, you need to select the few key activities that are predictive of goal achievement and that you can influence on a weekly basis. These are called “lead measures.” These lead measures are 80/20 activities--that is, 80% of the results come from 20% of these activities. The 80/20 rule is also known as the Pareto principle.

-- Discipline 3: Keep a Compelling Scoreboard. Once you’ve defined your goals and measures, you need to put them on a scoreboard so everyone knows all the time whether you’re winning or losing.

-- Discipline 4: Create a Cadence of Accountability—a rhythm of team-based engagement and accountability.

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All these management consulting stuff are talking about the same thing essentially, there's this Johari window thing years back. But essentially i think all laws and good 'rules' and habits to follow comes from human being's consciousness of knowing/having God's likeness, thus following their word. try it, track any of these principles that worked, and it will go back to something you have read in the bible. can they be earlier than the bible? no rite?

Most of us fall into different tranches of closeness to doing what we really want. the broadest base is dunno what we want at all, up a level: knowing what we want, but not pursuing; up a level: knowing what we want, tried pursue but gave up; followed by pursued, and currently in a sterilized variation of what we want; followed by doing what we want, but not focused pursuit; followed by the pinnacle, which is doing and fully pursuing.

of course if you put in the Maslow hirachy of needs (or this, this and this), you will pursue thing according to your different needs in progression. I seriously think that things like having to renovate ur house nice nice, having an expensive wedding, etc makes the exit barrier of the current good paying job and lifestyle higher, and makes the entry barrier to the what-u-really-want high also.

priorities, it goes back to. somethings you would forsake anything, for. some, not.

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but again, who says that doing something you don't really want is wrong? i think prob knowing what you really want (or at least what you think you really want at least) is more important.

i like this quote: "I would rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not" - Lucille Ball

means, just whack la.