Quotes about Balance

You just can't bring your A game to every situation. Knowing when to embrace Good Enough is what gives you the opportunity to be truly excellent when you need to be.

Motivation is pivotal to healthy lives and healthy companies. Make sure you're minding it.

It's not worth trading sleep for a few extra hours at the office. Not only will it make you exhausted, it'll literally make you stupid

Workaholism is a contagious disease. You can't stop the spread if you're the one bringing it into the office. Disseminate some calm instead.

If you stop thinking that you must change the world, you lift a tremendous burden off yourself and the people around you. There's no longer this convenient excuse for why it has to be all work all the time. The opportunity to do another good day's work will come again tomorrow, even if you go home at a reasonable time.

The person with the question needed something and they got it. The person with the answer was doing something else and had to stop. That's rarely a fair trade.

Workaholism is a contagious disease.

Pare down to the essence, but don't remove poetry. Keep things clean and unencumbered, buut don't sterilize.

You just can't bring your A game to every situation. Knowing when to embrace Good Enough is what gives you the opportunity to be truly excellent when you need to be. We're not suggesting you put shit work out there. You need to be able to be proud of it, even if it's only "okay." But attempting to be indiscriminately great at everything is a foolish waste of energy.

Ironically, you'll probably get far more done when only half of your workday overlaps with the rest of your team. Instead of spending the entire day dealing with Urgent!!! emails and disruptive phone calls, you'll have the entire start (or end) of the day to yourself.

We're willing to loase some customers if it means that others love our products intensely. That's our line in the sand.

Making a few vocal customers happy isn't worth it if it ruins the product for everyone else.