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Maybe you’ve guessed by the title of my blog, but I don’t believe in the separation of personal and professional worlds. Not anymore, anyway. Here’s why, plus an alternative way of segregating your life that makes more sense and will help you be more successful—at work and at play. Why you can’t separate your personal and professional [...]

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The problem with “work/life integration” is semantic, and it’s big. Your brain expects words separated by slashes to be opposites, like: Yes/No True/False Happy/Sad Or, like: Work/Play Life/Death Maybe it’s just me, but when I hear a sentence in which “work” is juxtaposed with another concept, I automatically expect that concept to be “play.” Similarly, [...]

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In the real world, for a long time, it was relatively easy to pretend that life could be broken down into “professional” and “personal,” and never the twain should meet. You went home and thought “family;” you went to work and thought “coworkers.” Life was like a McDLT, with the hot side hot and the [...]

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Last year, I wrote a post about operating in a “profersonal” world. (Thank you, Willy Franzen.) I have used this term now every single day, multiple times a day, for the past three weeks. I started using this word because social media has finally nailed shut the coffin on this myth people like to believe [...]

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