Trying to Find a Balance
February 18th, 2010I can actually sum up the key to my happiness in one word: balance. I love my job. I love working on Web Sites, coming up with ideas, designing, see my stuff and hearing what people think. I also really love drinking whiskey, swimming, board games, and riding my bike. The point is, I don’t want to do any of those things all the time. For the past three years my entire life has been totally taken over with by a place called Crispin Porter + Bogusky; I had no balance in my life.
Working at CP+B meant that I was doing just that: working. Don’t’ get me wrong, I did a ton of work there that I’m extremely proud of, worked with amazingly talented people, learned more in 4 months there than in 4 years of school, and made some of the best friends I’ve ever had. But Crispin demands that work is not only the most important thing in your life, but pretty much the only important thing in your life. There was a lack of that magic word: balance.
I recently accepted a position at Sterling-Rice Group, still right at home here in good ol’ Boulder, CO. The work is great. The people are great. I’ll occasionally work a late night or weekend, but that’s now the exception, not the rule. And get this, I can pretty much anticipate when those nights/weekends are coming. What does that mean? I can plan trips. I can buy concert tickets. I can make dinner plans and show up on time. It’s all about balance.
Balance isn’t only for work life though. Think diet (you can’t eat sweets all the time, but you’re also a much happier person if you bite into a god damned cupcake every now and then), think friends and family, think TV and reading. Think of anything in your life and think about how much better it is when you’ve found a balance.
And that, dear friends, is my theory on the key to happiness. Guess what? I’m pretty god damned happy right now.
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