You do not want balance in your life!

The other day I was chatting with ChatGPT about my life goals. Being a successful entrepreneur and businessman, a 5.0 level tennis player, while being a present husband, son, uncle, and everything in between.

It didn’t take more than 5 prompts for it to suggest a very strict schedule of training, deep work, meeting hours, family time, free time.

It layed out a full plan that filled out my day, Monday through Friday, and let some time occupied with my Saturdays and Sundays!

Sounds amazing right? I also thought so!

But then I started thinking, what happens if I’m stuck in traffic for 1h?

What happens when on a random Saturday I want to spend the entire day with my family, and not play tennis at all?

What if some days I just feel like working the entire day for a big project and don’t really want to do all of the rest?

This schedule would have been an authentic prison! I would have felt forced to follow this, hour by hour, almost minute by minute

We all need boundaries in our life, some direction we need to follow. For the most part, I always get to the office every day before 7am!

But even though I do that, I don’t want to be a slave to my schedule. I get up earlier because it helps me achieve my goals, it makes me be the person I want to be!

I have time to practice Italian, meditate, if I want have a tennis match at 7 or 8am, and still get to the office by 9.

Now, why do I not want balance in my life? Because balance is a prison! You try to pack your schedule with every single thing you remember you need to do, and you completely forget you’re a human. You start treating yourself as a robot.

So what should we aim for instead?

Rhythm is the answer! You want to be able to move as swiftly as possible.

In my case, I want to be able to spend a healthy amount of time with my family, progress on my business and get better at tennis. Some weeks one become more important than others, and I don’t let a schedule define that!

I go to where life calls me. And all I do, is to keep my momentum going.

So if you really want to keep going without feeling like you’re stuck in a routine you hate, forget about balance in your life. Start aiming for rhythm!

Choose the things that allow to keep going at a steady pace, but don’t make them your life prison