{"id":2608,"date":"2011-05-26T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2024-06-19T07:38:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:38:58","slug":"travel-work-life-balance-time-management-and-the-paradoxes-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/travel-work-life-balance-time-management-and-the-paradoxes-within\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel, Work-Life Balance, Time Management, and the Paradoxes Within"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>\u201cWork\/Life Balance\u201d<\/em><\/strong>: This phrase has become something of a clich\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some people surmise that as long as you love what you do, there\u2019s no such thing as work\/life balance; that work\/life balance is a function of \u201cwork\u201d being something you don\u2019t like to do, something separate from \u201clife\u201d or living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I generally love to write, but when I also love to hike, cook, volunteer, and develop meaningful relationships with people, the \u201cwork\u201d required for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/make-money-while-traveling\/\">my writing career<\/a> comes in conflict with these other activities. It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t like the work (or most of it, anyway); more that <strong>the \u201cwork\u201d of writing is a necessity required to enable me to enjoy the other activities of \u201clife\u201d that I so relish.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when something you do regularly is a necessity (regardless of whether you like it or not), it becomes \u201cwork\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This post was originally published in 2011. It has since been updated for accuracy of links and content. <\/em><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\t\t\t<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/p952609413-2.jpg\" alt=\"buddhist quote that relates to work-life balance\"\/><\/figure>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>\u201cTime Management\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I believe that time management is the root of work\/life balance issues for most people. I can speak for myself in saying that time management has been a crux of my full-time travels. How do I manage my writing career, research and book upcoming travel arrangements, stay in touch with family and friends, connect with new friends on the road, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/the-creative-guide-to-free-or-cheap-accommodation\/\">volunteer in trade for accommodation<\/a>, <em>and <\/em>enjoy whatever the country I\u2019m visiting has to offer (which is supposed to be the point of being a full-time traveler)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fitting all that in makes for a bloody long day.<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Choosing from the Three Pillars of Life<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a school of thought that says there are three pillars in life, and you can only ever excel at two of them. <strong>The three pillars are <em>career, family &amp; friends, and health &amp; fitness<\/em><\/strong>. And at first blush, this makes sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you excel at your career and like to run marathons, then you\u2019ll spend 8-10 hours a day at the office, and another 2-4 hours training \u2013 not leaving much time for your family &amp; &nbsp;friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you excel at relationships with family &amp; friends and a rewarding career, then you\u2019ll probably have trouble finding time to exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And on it goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings up the question: <strong><em>what defines \u201cexcelling\u201d at something? <\/em><\/strong>Does it mean being the best of the best? Always rising above others? It seems that the very definition of the word \u201cexcel\u201d implies a comparative angle that means you must exceed the average, surpassing expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If this is the case, then yes, you can only ever <em>excel <\/em>at two of the three pillars in life. Somehow you must <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/the-paralysis-of-choice\/\">make a choice<\/a>, and live with the (sometimes unfortunate) consequences of that choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\t\t\t<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/p265073329-2.jpg\" alt=\"can't see through the fog\"\/><\/figure>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br \/><strong>The Courage to be Average<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>But what if we forgive ourselves enough to <em>not <\/em>excel? To instead, be very good at what we do (regardless of the average, or the norm), comparing ourselves not to others or some pre-set benchmark, but instead to our ideal vision of life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What if we had the courage to simply be average at two of the three pillars, possibly excelling at just one? Or (<em>yikes \u2013 heaven forbid<\/em>) excelling at nothing, but happily balancing all three pillars?<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What Time Management Really Is<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Time management has only a minute relevance to the actions of planning out your day. It has little to do with \u201cbalancing\u201d work and life in the precarious way most of us try (unsuccessfully) to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019d like to illustrate this by way of personal example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/living-at-mana-retreat\/\">volunteered at Mana Retreat<\/a>, I was considered to be a \u201cfull-time\u201d volunteer, in that my 30 volunteer hours per week fully paid for my accommodation and meals. But I found this to be quite onerous over time, since I work another 14-28 hours per week on my own business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some people balked at my complaints that there weren\u2019t enough hours in a day, suggesting I needed to \u201csuck it up\u201d by citing their own 60 hour work-weeks as being commonplace. Others who saw me guiltily tied to my computer during most of the off-hours asked me why I work so hard and suggested I was a workaholic, or that I needed to take a holiday. <em>(Imagine that! A full-time traveler being told to take a holiday)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I later returned to Mana to heal from the cumulative effects of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/travel-fatigue-and-slowing-down-the-pace-of-travel\/\">travel fatigue<\/a>, I knew that a full-time volunteer work-load wouldn\u2019t be conducive to the down-time I was craving. So I arranged to volunteer part-time (about 18 hours per week), and pay a fee to compensate for the rest. In theory, this would allow me plenty of time to work on my writing, as well as enjoy the people and property to its fullest extent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Instead, I found that even though I had \u201cbought\u201d myself an extra 12 hours per week, I still finished each day with a wild look in my eye and a sense of disappointment for not getting everything done that I wanted to. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is when I discovered the root of my problems: I had thought that by logistically creating time in my life for the things I wanted to do, I would have a satisfactory \u201cwork\/life\u201d balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this wasn\u2019t the case. <strong>Time management, I discovered, comes from within. <\/strong>It has very little to do with creating space or time in our day; instead it has to do with how we view our day and how forgiving we are in setting (and sometimes revising) our expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\t\t\t<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/p763107735-2.jpg\" alt=\"watching the moon\"\/><\/figure>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br \/><strong>Shoot for the Stars\u2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By suggesting we need the courage to be average and to set forgiving expectations, I\u2019m not saying that we should aim low in life. I believe it\u2019s important to shoot for the stars, but also to be happy when the moon is as far as we get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I could have returned to Mana and volunteered only five hours per week, and still I would have fought the same \u201ctime management\u201d issues.<\/strong> This is partly because there is so much I like to do here, and partly because I tend to set demanding goals for myself. It compounds when all the extra time and space I create gets filled with \u201cstuff\u201d that isn\u2019t necessarily on my pre-determined list of things to do, but \u201cstuff\u201d that is rewarding nonetheless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take my run-in with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/encountering-the-artist-a-random-experience-in-spain\/\">Toro Bravo in Spain<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/the-australian-aboriginal-tent-embassy-a-38-year-protest\/\">Sheralee in Australia<\/a>: I didn\u2019t have \u201ctime\u201d for these encounters given what I had planned for the day, but they ended up being defining experiences for me; crucial travel encounters that unspeakably enriched my life. All I had to do was to rearrange a few of my expectations for the day and forgive myself for not getting everything done that I had intended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Not only does time management come from within, but it evolves with our day and our lives. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when we manage our time from within, each day truly defining for ourselves what we need to do and what we want to do \u2013 <em>and ultimately marrying need with want <\/em>\u2013 then maybe work\/life balance and time management can go from clich\u00e9s to misnomers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poignant articles looks at how we prioritize our lives, and the root of time management and work-life issues. 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