Comments on: Clean water and work-life http://www.careerlifeconnection.com/blog/2009/12/23/clean-water-and-work-life/ The quest for flexibility in a rigid world Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:28:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jon Prial http://www.careerlifeconnection.com/blog/2009/12/23/clean-water-and-work-life/#comment-1974 Jon Prial Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:32:52 +0000 http://www.careerlifeconnection.com/blog/?p=1102#comment-1974 Last January, my wife and I visited our son who lives in a remote village in Senegal through the U.S. Peace Corps. He lives in a hut with no electricity, no plumbing and water from a ground-level well that needs to be filtered and then purified with diluted bleach. After staying in his village for four days we came away with a totally different perspective of what we need vs. what we want. Honestly, at this stage in our lives, we don't really need more things at all. I know that his life has been changed, but our perspective has been permanently changed, too. As you nicely state in your post, we all must remember how fortunate we are and constantly find ways to give back. Hoping that the holiday season has allowed you to move that needle over to the life side of that work-life scale - - at least for a little while. Last January, my wife and I visited our son who lives in a remote village in Senegal through the U.S. Peace Corps. He lives in a hut with no electricity, no plumbing and water from a ground-level well that needs to be filtered and then purified with diluted bleach. After staying in his village for four days we came away with a totally different perspective of what we need vs. what we want. Honestly, at this stage in our lives, we don’t really need more things at all.

I know that his life has been changed, but our perspective has been permanently changed, too. As you nicely state in your post, we all must remember how fortunate we are and constantly find ways to give back.

Hoping that the holiday season has allowed you to move that needle over to the life side of that work-life scale – - at least for a little while.

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