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iQuestions Faculty, Ron Price 
 
 
Question: 
 
How can I manage my work-life balance when my job demands so 
much? 
 
Answer: 
 
Work/life balance. You read and hear a lot about that. I don’t know if 
any of us feel that we ever achieve it. As a matter of fact, I don’t know 
if it’s possible.  
 
I think sometimes balance is the one nanosecond you get between two 
extremes. Sometimes it’s more time with your family, other times 
more time at work. Probably more often, more time at work. 
 
How do you find a way to navigate this? I think the first thing we have 
to recognize is that there are no set of rules, no system you can create 
that will make your life routine in finding work/life balance—not if 
you’re making a difference, and really leading others and leading your 
company in a significant way.  
 
So how do you develop some sense of reasonableness in the way you 
divide between your family, yourself, and your work? I think it’s a 
matter of negotiating win-win agreements with three distinct parties. 
 
The first obvious party is your family. What are their needs? What is it 
that you can do to invest in the quality of life for them? 
 
The second is your employer, or business, or boss. How do you 
negotiate the right kind of balance, a win-win relationship with them? 
 
 
 
It doesn’t do any good at all to go to work and to kill yourself in the 
process. That’s sort of like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. 
You’ve got to take care of that goose so that it can keep laying more 
golden eggs.  
 
Talk through with your employer what your energy levels are, what 
your needs are with your family, and if your employer is a good 
employer they will want you to take care of your family in addition to 
company. 
 
And finally there’s yourself—taking care of yourself mentally, 
emotionally, physically, and spiritually. You have to balance these 
three different areas of your life. At times, you’re going to be over-
focused on one more than the other, realizing that life is a dynamic 
experience.  
 
Eventually you develop these skills to negotiate win-win and to keep 
moving back and forth and you’ll get more and more of those spots 
where you’re right in the middle, and you can say, “For that moment, I 
was balanced.“ 
 
 
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