Work-Life balance
A Journey
by the Rogue Male by Fred McMurray
This is me at about 10 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018. Yes, I know I look like crap; you probably would too if three hours earlier, one of the best cardiologists in the U.S. had yanked you back from an eyeball-to-eyeball meeting with the Grim Reaper. How does this relate to work-life balance? Well, as the title says, it’s a journey.
disconnected her from life support and held her in my arms as she died. The next day, after waking up and not knowing how I got into bed the night before, I started on my path toward work-life balance after I determined that life was too short to live on someone else’s time clock . This was my first step on the journey to work-life balance.
My journey toward work-life balance started on my last day in corporate America, which was Jan. 16, 2005. It was 13 months to the day after I had kissed my wife goodbye,
Over the next 10+ years I enjoyed being a partner in Westvyne, a marketing firm with roots in Chicago and an office in Shell Beach, CA, working with companies large and
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small and helping professionals find their marketing path. On the family side of things, I remarried and was also blessed with my first grandchild, Addison. The first time my granddaughter smiled and threw her arms around me time stopped. I knew I would turn my financial interest in Westvyne to my granddaughter in about 25 years. Life was balanced, or so I thought. I remember being at a Franchise Referral Network meeting in early 2018 and mentioning “work-life balance,” a phrase that a recent
