You don’t need balance. You need seasons

Let’s kill a sacred cow

“Work life balance” sounds wise
It also keeps high achievers stuck in average land

When you try to make every day perfectly balanced
you build a life that’s evenly mediocre
Nothing is awful
and nothing is exceptional

Counterintuitive truth
Balanced days often create unbalanced years
Meanwhile
targeted seasons create balanced lives

Seasons let you go all in without burning out
Focus hard on one domain
Protect minimum standards everywhere else
Then rotate
No guilt
No drama
Just results

Here’s the playbook

Why balance backfires

• Balance assumes every domain deserves equal attention every day
  Reality check
  priorities rotate
  Some months demand career sprints
  Others demand health repair or family bandwidth

• Balance worships symmetry over progress
  You check ten boxes a day
  but nothing moves meaningfully

• Balance burns decision energy
  Every morning you renegotiate what gets attention
  Seasons remove the debate
  the decision is already made

Unexpected insight
You can have it all
just not at the same intensity at the same time
Seasons control the intensity dial

What a season looks like

Pick a time box
I like 6 weeks
long enough to compound
short enough to course correct

Choose one primary focus
business growth
body recomposition
deep creative work
relationship repair
skill acquisition

Everything else gets floor rules
not goals
floors
the minimum that protects the asset during the season

Example
Primary focus
“$10k in new MRR in 6 weeks”
Floors
3x 20 minute lifts weekly
8k steps daily
one hour device free with family nightly
Sleep before 11

Primary gets your prime hours
Floors get your off peak

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