Martha Stewart says people need to get through their ‘thick skulls’ that there’s ‘no such thing as balance’—even at 85 she still starts work at 7 a.m.
Source: Fortune ·
The multimillionaire lifestyle mogul Martha Stewart says she’s jealous of people who achieve work-life balance—but suspects their lives are boring.
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Martha Stewart’s career has spanned Wall Street, television sets, the modeling studio, and even federal prison. Through it all, the lifestyle mogul has built a business empire worth today an estimated $400 million. But achieving that kind of success has come at a cost: Stewart believes the idea of perfectly balancing work and life is a myth. “There is no such thing as balance—just get that through your thick skulls,” Stewart said earlier this month in conversation with Vivian Tu, who runs the social media account ‘Your Rich BFF’. “You can’t balance it. It doesn’t balance.” Major life events, including marriage and divorce, inevitably throw things off course, Stewart said. And while she acknowledged that some people may occasionally manage to strike a balance, she isn’t convinced it’s the norm. “This thing about balance, I don’t know who thought about that—but it just doesn’t work,” she said. “Maybe infrequently—and I’m jealous of those people—but they’re also boring.” Even at 85,…
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