Episode 24 of 24 in "Professional Balance" a bonus content series of the Saturday Morning Hustle Podcast. Two years ago, I started this bonus series to have different conversations than the weekly Saturday Morning Hustle podcast. But also as an opportunity to dive deep into the issues that challenge all entrepreneurs, business owners, career builders and decision-makers. "How to balance what seems to be contradictory viewpoints" in business and personal life. More than just work/life balance, we examine a variety of "this or that" scenarios. Today we discuss if you can balance each and every aspect of your life. Optimistic or Pessimistic? Is the Glass half full or half empty? Work hard, work smart or both? Go with the flow or disrupt? Collaborate or go your own way? These are just a few ideas for finding balance, if possible.

Recently on my business podcast, The Golding Group Strategic Growth podcast, my co-host and business partner Pritch Pritchard proposed the idea of "work/life integration" instead of "work/life balance" as a way to better frame the conversation. Balance might be too perfect of an idea to achieve, thus creating more problems than it solves. Instead, how do you integrate all the ideas, factors, possibilities, effects, etc... into your decision-making process? Let's talk about that by looking back at various topics we have covered over the last two years.

• Work/Life Balance vs. Hustle Culture 1/21
• Success Mindset vs. Learning From Failure 2/21
• The CEO should always / Should never make the coffee 6/21
• Work Smart then Work Hard 8/21
• Rising Tide vs. Getting Yours 9/21
• Self-Reliance vs. Collaboration 10/21
• Defending Yourself vs. Seeming Too Defensive 12/21
• Mentoring Others vs. Being Mentored 1/22
• Self-Improvement vs. Market Competition 4/22 
• Market Demand vs. Disruption 6/22
• Hiring Help vs. Doing Everything Yourself 8/22
• Imposter Syndrome vs. Authentic Leader 9/22
• Smartest Person Or The Wrong Room 10/22
• Management via Economic Reality vs. Guidance via Vision, Mission and Values 11/22

This long-form audio-only podcast, posted on the last Monday of every month, is an opportunity to dive deep into the issues that challenge all entrepreneurs, business owners, career builders and decision-makers. "How to balance what seems to be contradictory viewpoints" in business and personal life. More than just work/life balance, we examine a variety of "this or that" scenarios.

Thanks for listening to episode 23 of 24 in the “Professional Balance” bonus content series of the Saturday Morning Hustle podcast. I will be back next month with a new topic and a new podcast every Saturday with Hustle and Motivation advice from the office while the competition is still sleeping. Please subscribe, leave a review and comment on social media. www.SaturdayMorningHustle.com