202 – Home Life vs. Work Life - a podcast by Alf Herigstad

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Hey every body!  Alf Herigstad here, broadcasting from the rain-soaked, wind-battered region of the country known as western Washington.  You have arrived at the podcast that is devoted to advancing the character of men—welcome to Being A Better Man.I got a letter recently from a listener named Calen.  In it, he said that he is having trouble getting things together at both work and home at the same time.  He said he knows what it takes to be the best at everything individually, but the trouble comes in when you try to be the best at everything at once.  He thinks consistency might be part of the problem, and that constantly trying to balance all aspects of his life is leaving him feeling burned out on everything.
Sound familiar?  What Calen is describing is one of the most relevant issues men face today;  trying to find balance between work, home, and your social life. So that’s what I’m going to talk about today, but first I am going to acknowledge the sponsor of todays program:  Stumptown kilts.
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Ok back to our topic of the day.  As men none of us really have a simple life do we?  Our lives are divided up into sections that sometimes seem to be at war with each other. We have our homes where we eat and sleep and spend time with our families, that’s one section.  For most of us hopefully, our home life is the best part of life, the part we look forward to the most.
Then we have our work life.  Where many of us trade our time in exchange for money, doing something that is making someone else rich.  Others of us might be self-employed, in which case the massive responsibility to your customers and employees sort of takes the place of an employer. Either way though, no matter what you do, the amount of time you spend on your home life is mandated and limited by the amount of time you spend at work.  At the same time—the quality of your home life also depends on your work life, because it takes money to live and eat and buy clothes for your kids and go to the doctor.  So unless we are independently wealthy…we have to earn a living doing something.
In addition to our home and work life, there is also our social life.  The social

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