Life balance and harmony

Work–Life Balance: Striking the Right Chords for Harmony

As a mother of two young children and a fellow in pediatric critical care, I was often asked the question: " how do you do it? " I certainly liked to think that I was balancing work and life appropriately. To be honest, more often than not there was simply no choice to be made about what the need of the hour was – the bare minimum at work and home accounted for every minute. When I took up addi...

Work Life Balance – What Balance?

“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” Anonymous. This quote stands out because as we highlight our career goals and strategically plan for them, our personal lives often happen as an afterthought. To be successful at achieving a work–life balance, we should pay equal attention to planning all spheres of our life. While God and Family have been the bedrock in my own...

Harmony: A game to teach transitive game balance

Transitive game balance – balancing a set of game objects so that they all have the same cost/benefit ratio –is a difficult subject to teach effectively. While the theory behind it is straightforward, the games that would make the most practical examples tend to be too complicated for classroom analysis, and they often have some imperfections in their balance (there is no “perfect example” of b...

Beyond Work-Life "Balance".

T he desire for better work-life balance is a common concern among physicians and a key reason for choosing employed practice. But the term work-life balance has always struck me as problematic. In my experience, achieving a true balance between work and non-work activities is incredibly challenging and, when achieved, is fleeting. My moment of balance is quickly upended by a sick child, a pa...

Work-life balance.