Wednesday, October 14, 2015

You can't have your cake and eat it

Compromise is a phenomenon that none of us can escape. Whenever we invest time in any endeavour, we unavoidably deny investment in another.  We can be good at many things but we cannot be our best at anything, unless we are prepared to sacrifice other values and ideals on the altar of that success.

In 2012, Anne-Marie  Slaughter published the article "Why Women Still Can't Have it All". It was a explanation as to why she, who served as Director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State, voluntarily left her role to spend more time with her teenage sons.

True balance in life is an illusion; we cannot have the best of all worlds. Practical balance is the acceptance of the fact that one cannot be one’s best at all areas in life; it’s the choice of which areas to excel and in which areas to capitulate.

Time is a commodity that must be budgeted. Investment in one area, detracts it from another. Priorities ultimately will determine where the commodity should be spent.


Absolute success comes with an absolute cost. 

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