Call it Work-Life Choices

Forget the idea of "balance". There's no single right way to divide work and personal time.
In a global economy wherein job challenges re constantly escalating, it is easy to feel overwhelmed by conflicting demands.And technology complicates matters. With your BlackBerry in hand, you can constantly be on call for everyone.

But feeling swamped is really just a default mechanism: It's what occurs when you don't face what "achieving work-life balance" really comes down to, which is making choices and living with their consequences. In fact, we would even vote to retire the term "work-life balance" and replace it with "work-life choices".

The problem is that life and work balance is suggesting that there is one right ratio for how much time you spend working and not working. There's lot of politically correct advocacy for a kind of perfect equilibrium.
But some people love working really much that they want to live a different equation, for example a 70-30 , say.
Still others want to work just enough to support a life of avocation.

There's no right or wrong here. There are just individual choices and their trade-off.