You’ve heard the expressions of work hard, play hard, in life you need balance, burn bright, rest well. Many people, when they start going for a dream or deep desire, business, ambition, of wild career, they are told that balance is something that they will be missing that is key to life. Others on the internet, the grinders, the hustlers, don’t stop until you drop, they say to forget balance, you must accept that you won’t have it. But I believe that both sides of this equation are incorrect, I have the opinion that is outside of the mass.
If we look at balance at base form, it means half and half, or evenly divided. Half the time you work, and half the time you play, or you work a quarter of the time for money, quarter working for charitable reasons, then the other half is divided up into play with others, and play for yourself.
But what if you were able to turn your play hard into something that was ‘productively’ fun? For example, this blog is me ‘playing hard’. After a long day’s work, I come home and am able to write out ideas that fly through my brain everyday and be able to share them to a group of people, and be able to do that everyday so that I can grow a community of people within this blog to where I can turn this into something that makes a large impact. Highly motivated athletes such as Kobe Bryant and Tiger Woods were ‘out of balance’ from the average person, but their hard work was getting so good at their craft, that the ‘work hard’ wasn’t, actually hard, it came second nature.
No Kobe Bryant to basketball is in another stratosphere compared to little me and my blog and my writing aspiration (…for now…), but I still think having that way of thinking could really help people into finding a way to finding the energy to do the things that they have been dreaming about doing for so many years, but just couldn’t get up to do it. All you need to do, is see that project, that dream, that goal, no matter how big or small, as play hard, rather than work hard.