January 6, 2026 • 8 mins
the concept of work-life balance doesnt look the same every age.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
We're in a new year, you guys.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It is twenty twenty six, it is January, and I
did want to through off the year with something that
I think it's very important that we need to say
to each other, especially those of us who are fifty plus.
There's a whole discussion about work life balance, and each
generation right now, including the Gen z ers, are trying
(00:26):
to figure that out, really are trying to figure that out,
and it's not easy. And there's something as you get older,
there's something you realize. I'm excited once you had to
realize this, and that is your your balance of work
(00:47):
life balance will change over time. It will. This is
fifty plus. I'm James lot Jingior. This is jail Ja Media,
and I'm happy to be back for another year, another
season of doing this show. It's just one of my
(01:09):
favorites to do because I am getting older. This year.
In a few months, i turned fifty seven. I know
that's something else that I'm like, Okay, we're hanging towards sixty,
full steam ahead. I'm dealing with some health issues and
concerns and am working on that and that's something that
(01:33):
you know, you get older, you know, So I'm writing
something impact on the show of the show.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Of the show. So I'm typing something.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
But there's one of the things that I realized that
is so true is that your work life balance will
change over time. One of the things we need to keep
in mind is that one of the biggest misconceptions is
(02:11):
that you'll figure it out. Once you figure out to
work some kind of work life balance, you'll get to
keep it forever, and that one size fits all not true.
It's it's always a fluctuating state because it's whatever your
(02:31):
life is, right, So it's not this thing where it's like, Okay,
I figured it out. The rest of my life, we
just like this, Well, a lot of things happen. You
have to pivot and change. You may find it for
a while and that's good, and we said okay, I
got it, I got this for a little while.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Okay, and then something else happens. You're like, wait, what happened?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
But balance time life balance, work life balance is not
a permanent thing.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It just isn't.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
It's think of it as a living, breathing situation that
it's parallel with you.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
It's with you.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It shifts and evolves as we do, and it changes
you know, what worked for you at twenty necessarily work
for you at forty, forty five, fifty, right, So life
and balance will change. Some of the things that happen
(03:36):
that you know that takes center stage. A big opportunity comes,
or you're building a business. You decide to an entrepreneur,
and you have a passion product or a passion project
you're working on as you want to get out there
to the people. You're excited, you're driven, you're energized, you're
(03:57):
working on that shit. Then there is other things that
come up for me, health issues. For me, you become
a caregiver, which takes a lot of your time. Trust.
Then what happens is grief, burnout, emotional exhaustion. That all
(04:23):
starts to come up. You could be part of the
Sandwich generation, which I always talking about all the time.
You could be raising kids and supporting aging parents.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
It's tough.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
So any of those things I just mentioned can happen
any time in your life at different times.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
It all happen at once. You usually happen at different
times in your life.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
So your coping mechanisms will shift and change on that too,
And depending on what it is, you might have to
demand more time and work and less at home. Ory
they say no, right now in the season, I can
take care of my health. That becomes a priority first. Yeah,
(05:09):
there's different things that go on, you know. But one
of the things that's a problem with that is we
start to feel a little guilty, you know, epecially as
involvular people. You don't want anybody down, you just don't.
(05:31):
But when you have people in your life and then
life is happening, you have to let go of the
guilt and the unease that happens because things have shifted
(05:55):
as long as you know they have shifted, and you
try to be there for the parties that may feel
neglected or upset. That's great, that's self awareness. You want
to practice self awareness, right, this whole process.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
We aware your needs change and evolve. We just do.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
People. You know, when you have kids, stuff there their
brains and change and evolved evolved, right, you have to
you know, and people will fight change. This is where
professional organizers come in because and life coaches, because we've
seen I've seen it. I'll just say me where someone
is holding on to some idea very tightly, and we
(06:49):
have to not fight change. We need to allow ourselves
to say things like, you know, I need more rest
right now, I need to set some boundaries, or I
need more enjoy, so I take me out of here
and get me out there to do something I need help.
Your needs are allowed to erupt, evolve, erupt. Also your
(07:12):
goals are allowed to be transformed to be different. Your
balance doesn't have to look like anyone else is either.
The thing is, the beautiful thing about balance is that
adapts to you every time life shifts. I really do
believe that it wants to be balance you again, and
(07:36):
I believe that and so yeah, I mean it's it's
just accept that as you get older, certain things happen
health wise, professionally, personally, spiritually, and that's okay. We want
change to happen if that's beautiful. But the work life balance,
(08:00):
it's also gonna change when you have the kids that
moved out.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
It's just junior wife. It depends.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I mean, it just it just just knows that it's
not the same always. That's that's about the bottom line.
I don't want to you beat a dead horse. That's
the bottom line. I'm James loginor this is fifty plus.
We're talking about things over fellas fifty. I mean it,
and it just fight squirk for anybody, but it's for
the folks over Fifty's.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
A bunch of us are running around out there trying
to work it out. I'm James Legenor.
We're in a new year, you guys.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It is twenty twenty six, it is January, and I
did want to through off the year with something that
I think it's very important that we need to say
to each other, especially those of us who are fifty plus.
There's a whole discussion about work life balance, and each
generation right now, including the Gen z ers, are trying
(00:26):
to figure that out, really are trying to figure that out,
and it's not easy. And there's something as you get older,
there's something you realize. I'm excited once you had to
realize this, and that is your your balance of work
(00:47):
life balance will change over time. It will. This is
fifty plus. I'm James lot Jingior. This is jail Ja Media,
and I'm happy to be back for another year, another
season of doing this show. It's just one of my
(01:09):
favorites to do because I am getting older. This year.
In a few months, i turned fifty seven. I know
that's something else that I'm like, Okay, we're hanging towards sixty,
full steam ahead. I'm dealing with some health issues and
concerns and am working on that and that's something that
(01:33):
you know, you get older, you know, So I'm writing
something impact on the show of the show.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Of the show. So I'm typing something.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
But there's one of the things that I realized that
is so true is that your work life balance will
change over time. One of the things we need to keep
in mind is that one of the biggest misconceptions is
(02:11):
that you'll figure it out. Once you figure out to
work some kind of work life balance, you'll get to
keep it forever, and that one size fits all not true.
It's it's always a fluctuating state because it's whatever your
(02:31):
life is, right, So it's not this thing where it's like, Okay,
I figured it out. The rest of my life, we
just like this, Well, a lot of things happen. You
have to pivot and change. You may find it for
a while and that's good, and we said okay, I
got it, I got this for a little while.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Okay, and then something else happens. You're like, wait, what happened?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
But balance time life balance, work life balance is not
a permanent thing.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It just isn't.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
It's think of it as a living, breathing situation that
it's parallel with you.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
It's with you.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It shifts and evolves as we do, and it changes
you know, what worked for you at twenty necessarily work
for you at forty, forty five, fifty, right, So life
and balance will change. Some of the things that happen
(03:36):
that you know that takes center stage. A big opportunity comes,
or you're building a business. You decide to an entrepreneur,
and you have a passion product or a passion project
you're working on as you want to get out there
to the people. You're excited, you're driven, you're energized, you're
(03:57):
working on that shit. Then there is other things that
come up for me, health issues. For me, you become
a caregiver, which takes a lot of your time. Trust.
Then what happens is grief, burnout, emotional exhaustion. That all
(04:23):
starts to come up. You could be part of the
Sandwich generation, which I always talking about all the time.
You could be raising kids and supporting aging parents.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
It's tough.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
So any of those things I just mentioned can happen
any time in your life at different times.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
It all happen at once. You usually happen at different
times in your life.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
So your coping mechanisms will shift and change on that too,
And depending on what it is, you might have to
demand more time and work and less at home. Ory
they say no, right now in the season, I can
take care of my health. That becomes a priority first. Yeah,
(05:09):
there's different things that go on, you know. But one
of the things that's a problem with that is we
start to feel a little guilty, you know, epecially as
involvular people. You don't want anybody down, you just don't.
(05:31):
But when you have people in your life and then
life is happening, you have to let go of the
guilt and the unease that happens because things have shifted
(05:55):
as long as you know they have shifted, and you
try to be there for the parties that may feel
neglected or upset. That's great, that's self awareness. You want
to practice self awareness, right, this whole process.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
We aware your needs change and evolve. We just do.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
People. You know, when you have kids, stuff there their
brains and change and evolved evolved, right, you have to
you know, and people will fight change. This is where
professional organizers come in because and life coaches, because we've
seen I've seen it. I'll just say me where someone
is holding on to some idea very tightly, and we
(06:49):
have to not fight change. We need to allow ourselves
to say things like, you know, I need more rest
right now, I need to set some boundaries, or I
need more enjoy, so I take me out of here
and get me out there to do something I need help.
Your needs are allowed to erupt, evolve, erupt. Also your
(07:12):
goals are allowed to be transformed to be different. Your
balance doesn't have to look like anyone else is either.
The thing is, the beautiful thing about balance is that
adapts to you every time life shifts. I really do
believe that it wants to be balance you again, and
(07:36):
I believe that and so yeah, I mean it's it's
just accept that as you get older, certain things happen
health wise, professionally, personally, spiritually, and that's okay. We want
change to happen if that's beautiful. But the work life balance,
(08:00):
it's also gonna change when you have the kids that
moved out.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
It's just junior wife. It depends.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I mean, it just it just just knows that it's
not the same always. That's that's about the bottom line.
I don't want to you beat a dead horse. That's
the bottom line. I'm James loginor this is fifty plus.
We're talking about things over fellas fifty. I mean it,
and it just fight squirk for anybody, but it's for
the folks over Fifty's.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
A bunch of us are running around out there trying
to work it out. I'm James Legenor.
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