The Boundaries you defend create the Balance you experience.

Setting and defending boundaries is a behaviour shared by the most impactful CEOs. Being intentional in how you spend your time, and with who, impacts the outcomes you create. And where and how you recover and energise determines how sustainable your efforts are.

Since any significant or worthwhile project requires collaboration and teamwork and requires mobilising others, it's more of a marathon than a sprint.

This is Simon Sinek's "Infinite Game"

And you likely carry several values that may be in tension (like work and family).

So if you want a different balance in your life, don't start at balance. Instead notice…

• where you spend your time

• who you give your time to

• who/what do you say 'no' to today

• any resistance you feel to saying 'yes' or 'no'

These are the boundaries you create and how concrete they are is the result of you enforce them.

There are CEOs who spend a third of their time inside the org, a third with customers, and a third with other external groups(industry, government. community bodies).

How and with who you spend your time is the result of your purpose/mission. When you're clear on purpose you can identify your stakeholders, and when you know who helps achieve your purpose you get to decide how to effectively allocate your time.

TL; DR; Successful leaders are clear on…

• purpose

• stakeholders

• priorities

• rest + recovery

Balance is the result of the choices you make and the boundaries you uphold.