Re-Air | Why Work-Life Balance Is A Lie | Ep 63
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Leila Hormozi
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🗓️ 1 January 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I was at dinner with my friend the other night and her phone rang and it was, I want to say |
| 0:03.4 | 545 and she looked absolutely pissed off and I was like, what's going on? Why are you so pissed |
| 0:07.8 | that your phone's her name? And she's like, oh, it's work, but like they know that I don't work |
| 0:11.6 | past 5 p.m. She looked very angry. And this incident reminded me of so many others that I've had, which is it's people trying to achieve work-life |
| 0:21.3 | balance. This is a question I get all the time, which is, Layla, how do I achieve work-life balance? |
| 0:25.4 | How do you balance work in life? Like, how do you do it? Right? And I get this from other |
| 0:28.6 | entrepreneurs. I get this from people that are young and just coming up in the workplace, |
| 0:31.6 | and I get this from clients and family friends, right? The first thing that I would open this with is that I believe the idea of work-life balance |
| 0:39.1 | is absolutely misleading. I do not believe it exists. It makes no sense to me. And the reason for that |
| 0:44.6 | is if you say that it is work-life balance, you are saying there are two separate things. Okay, |
| 0:49.0 | as if one, work is not part of your life and as if your life is not part of your work. So to demonstrate |
| 0:53.9 | there are two separate things, ask yourself these two questions, right? If tomorrow you've got is not part of your life and as if your life is not part of your work. So to demonstrate there |
| 0:54.1 | are two separate things, ask yourself these two questions, right? If tomorrow you got fired from |
| 0:58.8 | your job, would it not affect your life? Well, obviously it would affect your life, right? |
| 1:04.0 | The other question is, you know, think about this, right? If I gained 50 pounds, would it affect |
| 1:09.4 | my performance at work? |
| 1:13.3 | Most likely, it would for most people. |
| 1:18.7 | And so to look at them as two things that we have to balance, it's just it's absolutely misconstrued. |
| 1:19.4 | And it leads us to try and solve these problems in ways that are not productive, right? |
| 1:22.7 | What happens often, I've seen happen a lot. |
| 1:24.8 | Now, I'll give you one example, was I had somebody who worked for us, |
| 1:28.4 | and she came into the company a time where it was absolutely, like, we needed all hands on deck. |
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