Balancing Life, my way.

So why this blog? Well, let me start with some information about myself before I tell you why. 

I'm the Global Marketing Manager for 2 business units at a 3 billion dollar Life Science company; one business unit does $28 million, the other does over $30 million. I moved my family with 2 small kids from Belgium to Norway to pursue this career. All of this at the age of 34, not bad huh. So you can say that in the corporate rat race I consider myself to be successful.

In the parental world I consider myself often lost, and it seems all parents are. How else can you describe a responsibility that seems to request perfection all the time? Because the subject of responsibility (also known as "your kids") is the most precious thing in the world, so can you allow errors? And to make matters worse, there is no way to measure or know that you're doing things right. At least not for the next 15 years or so. And by then it's too late to get another try.

Sid Vicious did it his way!

And on a personal level I feel like I'm living in a different world. I'm a punk, I like tattoos (goes well with the white striped corporate suit and tie!).
Plus I'm a Believer. A believer of The Secret, meditation, acupuncture and so many other alternative ways of doing things.
I also believe in the pharmaceutical industry and modern day healthcare, but not so much to justify their total relative size over some of the solutions I mentioned earlier.

And I often felt that these 3 worlds did not connect:

• I'm afraid to mention The Secret at work because most hardcore business people consider it fluff.
• I never got more than one small tattoo because I always associated more with death metal factory workers who hang out in pubs all weekend getting drunk. Plus how would people perceive me as a business person if they found out I was totally inked up? Totally unacceptable.

Frank did it his way as well.

But this morning I realized that all this disconnect comes from what other people might think of me. Well, no more. From this day on I am completely defining my own world and I will show the world (or only myself if noone ever reads this blog) that these 3 worlds can be, no ARE connected.

So what I'm saying is that I want it all. I want to be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, drive a Jaguar, I want to have tattoos all over my body and I want to have enough free time to have a great family life as well. Oh, and I also want to write a best selling book and be really famous. And I want to go away for the weekend with my high school friends and act like 16 year olds again. And then I want a zillion other things. So yes, literally EVERYTHING! The perfect life. And I want it all my way.

There were multiple pieces of inspiration that lead to this realization, however the thing that pushed me in starting this blog was this blog post:

http://chrisguillebeau.com/3x5/not-realistic/

And here's the main sentence that tipped me over: So the critics say: "Who are you to think you could possibly follow a dream? How silly of you". 

Well, I'm continuing my dream. I have been for 34 years and now I feel it's time to take it to the next level. So this blog is about making the dream bigger and taking it to the next level. Because a career, a great family, plenty of money and great family and friends just isn't enough. No idea what that level is yet or where it is going to take me, all I know is that I wanted to write a blog about it while I'm figuring it all out. So here it is! 

So follow me if you want to see where this next level will lead me to. I'll tell you all about it step by step.