Why does Humanity Need CEOs to have Work-Life Balance?

CEOs are role-models for their organizations. Whether you like it or not; your employees consciously or unconsciously mirror you, your beliefs, your values and even whether you have work-life balance or not. You cannot shy away from that fact.

If humanity has to progress forward towards love, joy and prosperity for all; human beings need to learn how to have it all - deeply fulfilling, successful, prosperity-creating career; loving harmonious relationships; happy, responsible kids with their genius joyfully expressed and lots of nourishing me-time; while making a huge difference in the world. 

If leaders at the helm of their organizations scoff at the idea of being able to have it all, and believe super successful career can only be built at the cost of every other area of their wheel of life; humanity will continue to slowly and surely move towards a downward negative spiral. Lets understand how.

If leaders and employees mirroring their leaders spend most of their time at work; it is being done at the cost of spending time with their kids, their spouse and with their own selves. A healthy, confident, happy child needs nourishing emotional, physical, intellectual and spiritual connection with both their parents. You need to spend time with your spouse to be friends and soul mates on this journey called Life; for both of you to learn, grow and evolve to your greatest selves. Both parents are required to be deeply engaged in parenting, leading and coaching their children to be No-Limit human beings; coaching them on the family mission, family values and how to live them moment to moment. If this is missing at the level of the family which is the fundamental unit of society because parents are busy working to maintain the lifestyle and building successful careers at the cost of other areas of their wheel of life; how can Mission and Values exist authentically in organizations? This will only lead to a society where the foundation is fast eroding. If there is no value-based parenting and as a result of that no value-based leadership; humanity will continue its downward spiral towards chaos, poverty, crime instead of relating to each other with love, gratitude, reverence, integrity and personal mastery. If there is no love, gratitude, reverence, integrity between a father and a mother leading to broken relationships and families; how can there be love, peace, joy, prosperity and fulfilment in the world?

If you are a leader at the helm of your organization and continue to put your head in the sand like an ostrich ignoring that stress levels are deteriorating your health, your marriage is fast progressing towards becoming empty and meaningless; your children only look at you for material comfort and for maintaining a lifestyle that you have got them addicted to; life is no longer fun except when you are busy being busy at work. It is time to step out of the speeding train of life to really understand where it is headed.

I am not saying you have to give up your career to make your wheel of life spin joyously. All I am saying is that whatever you have done so far is not leading towards supporting you to have it all. I am inviting you to consider another way of being, doing and having. I am inviting you to explore another Leadership Model whose destination is to support you to have it all; rather than take it away from you. In that new Leadership Model, you will learn to accept that your Being has four bodies - Intellectual / Mental, Physical, Emotional and Spiritual; and take on nourishing, growing and evolving each of these bodies for you to have it all - deeply fulfilling, super successful, abundance-creating career; loving, harmonious relationships experiencing a deep human, heart-to-heart connection with each one in your space; happy, responsible kids with their genius joyfully expressed and lots of nourishing me-time; while being at the source of transformation for the world.

May the Force be with you.

Love, 
​Jyoti.