Life is full of contradictions. Your boss wants you to work more, you want to spend more time with your family. On the one hand you need the salary to support your family and on the other hand you need a private life to enjoy yourself, recharge and be ready again to work some more. Do you work to live, or do you live to work? Can the question even be answered with a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’? Assuming you do not live to work—then why do you work? And the other way around: if you do not work to live, then why do you live? That is a contradiction.
But life is not a matter of yes or no questions. Or is life a matter of yes and no questions? This is a clear ‘yes or no question’ and clearly a matter concerning life. Assuming life is, then it would not be a matter of yes or no questions and the statement ‘Life is not a matter of yes or no questions’ would be false, assuming on the other hand that life is a matter of yes and no questions then the statement would be false as well. No matter how you approach it the statement is always false but you nevertheless agree with it. Another contradiction—how can this be?
The answer is of course the middle ground. You do not only work just to life and you do not only life just to work. Being the smart person that you are you look at you options, understand the consequences and strike a compromise. Work some so you can life some so you can work some more… A part of your salary is flowing back into your next salary by allowing you to recharge and a part of your life supported by your salary is the cause that lets you recharge in order to earn more salary. It is a recursive self referencing feedback loop—like a Moebius snail.
How to understand this recursive self-referencing feedback loop—let us call it the Moebius effect—to know what you have to do, is what I want to help you realize.
Life is full of contradictions. Your boss wants you to work more, you want to spend more time with your family. On the one hand you need the salary to support your family and on the other hand you need a private life to enjoy yourself, recharge and be ready again to work some more. Do you work to live, or do you live to work? Can the question even be answered with a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’? Assuming you do not live to work—then why do you work? And the other way around: if you do not work to live, then why do you live? That is a contradiction.
But life is not a matter of yes or no questions. Or is life a matter of yes and no questions? This is a clear ‘yes or no question’ and clearly a matter concerning life. Assuming life is, then it would not be a matter of yes or no questions and the statement ‘Life is not a matter of yes or no questions’ would be false, assuming on the other hand that life is a matter of yes and no questions then the statement would be false as well. No matter how you approach it the statement is always false but you nevertheless agree with it. Another contradiction—how can this be?
The answer is of course the middle ground. You do not only work just to life and you do not only life just to work. Being the smart person that you are you look at you options, understand the consequences and strike a compromise. Work some so you can life some so you can work some more… A part of your salary is flowing back into your next salary by allowing you to recharge and a part of your life supported by your salary is the cause that lets you recharge in order to earn more salary. It is a recursive self referencing feedback loop—like a Moebius snail.
How to understand this recursive self-referencing feedback loop—let us call it the Moebius effect—to know what you have to do, is what I want to help you realize.