Up until the late 1800s, most working people were business owners and would-be entrepreneurs...

They owned the local shoe shop that sold and repaired shoes...

Or the local butcher shop that raised their own animals and processed them for sale...

Or the local bread maker that bought grain from his neighbor and used it to make the product that he sold.

Then, in the mid to late 1800s, a sudden shift started to happen...

The rise of big companies such as Andrew Carnegie's US Steel, John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, and the railroad empires of Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould also began the rise of corporate employment...

People slowly began to transition from self-employed, self-sustaining go-getters to relying on others for theirs livelihood.

This transition eventually led to what is commonly known today as the seeking of "work-life" balance...

Because, when you work for someone else, it feels like...well...work...and usually work you don't like.

However, when you spend inordinate amounts of time working on your own business, building your own path and creating your own sustainability, it turns out work-life balance is an after thought...or, more accurately, not a thought at all.

It also turns out that, when you strive for work-life balance, you actually end up less happy and less fulfilled overall...

Whereas, when you recognize that everything is just life and, most of the time, that means being unbalanced, then you let go of the separation and just do.

Until next time, here's to your 1% growth every day...

Jerry