#nigel marsh

It’s The Little Things In Life…

…that matter most. I had a robust argument last night with a mentor of mine. Well perhaps, it wasn’t a robust argument as much as it was me being very stubborn and the other party being cool, calm and collected as he shared his posits. I had just spent nine minutes and fifty-eight seconds of my life listening to Nigel Marsh on ‘How To Make Work-Life Balance Work’. Stemming from this, we were…

My younger brother gifted me a Kindle for Christmas but - due to job betweenness - I can only develop a reading wish list rather than purchasing actual books. WAITING FOR THE DAY.

Here they are. Leave your thoughts ;)

Fat, Forty and Fired: Overworked and Underlaid by Nigel Marsh

How To Be A Bad Bitch by Amber Rose

The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology that breaks your heart by Ruth Behar

Memory and Identity by Pope John Paul II 

Dancing with the Mask: Learning to Love and be Loved by Sue Plumtree

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain

Good stuff.

CatPrint knows just how hard everyone works in their daily lives in order to provide for themselves and others. But this also can mean that a lot of time is spent at work and not much time is spent at home. This can be a problem, and soon you will see that you have been working so much and life is just passing you by! Now we don’t want that to happen to you. So here is an inspirational TED Talk…

Nigel Marsh talks about how important is having a balance in life and being realistic. He said that if you not design your life, somebody will design your life for you. Don’t put the quality of your life in hands of a company corporation. They want more for you, even if they are good ones.  We have to be responsible about the boundaries we want in our life.

He explains, in the presentation, his ideal daily routine that is something like this:

- Wake up, well rested after a good night sleep

- Have sex

- Good breakfast

- Have sex

- 3 hours work

- Lunch

- 3 hours work again

- Drive home

- Take a dinner with my family

- Have sex

- Play with my dog

- Have sex

- Go to bed

After that, with a little bit of humor, he asks himself how frequently life is like that and obviously this never happen because life is different and we have to put priorities.

According with Nigel Marsh in "How to make work-life balance work" the TED Talk speaker in 2010, the things above could be pleased as a perfect and well dreamed life. However, the real life couldn’t be like that.

Truly is, we can’t do everything in one day; and we have to face it this to take the first step to have a balance in our life.

There is another important idea explained by Marsh. To have balance in our bodies, for example we have to go to the gym and workout in every part of our body one by one, even if we don’t like one of those exercises. The same situation happen in our life, if we want an inner balance, we have take care of the needs that our life demands.

Sometimes does anything relevant in a day could be the better day of our life.

The smallest invested in the right moments is more valuable for our life well live. That is the meaning to life with balance.

I am agreeing with Nigel Marsh and I am going improve my balance in life with his advices.

Why there’s no such thing as work-life balance

Work-life balance is one of those overused phrases that’s thrown about so much that I’m not sure we know what it means anymore. Work means different things to different people; life presumably means personal life, but it’s unclear if we’re talking about spending time with your partner and your children, or having time for your hobbies, or just making sure that you take a break from your office…