Paloma Medina

Define your own life symmetry

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March 4, 2019

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Paloma helps us re-imagine the ever elusive work-life balance.

What does it mean to you to have balance and symmetry in your life and work? Unpack and rethink cultural norms and assumptions about creativity, work and time—all with the aim of re-imagining the ever elusive work-life balance. Paloma dives into the historical, anthropological, and neuroscientific origins of this issue, and explores how this “work-life balance" conundrum translates to people with creative pursuits and in creative fields. Finally, she guides us through a simple, human-friendly framework to assess and redesign your own game plan for a new kind of life symmetry (worksheet available here).

About the speaker

Paloma Medina is a performance coach, trainer and owner of 11:11 Supply. Her passion is bringing teams and individuals the psychology, neuroscience and tools to help them reach bigger, more badass goals. She’s worked in tech with companies such as Etsy and Digital Ocean, with nonprofit organizations, in homeless healthcare and in the design and creative worlds. She is from Guadalajara, Mexico and from the west coast of the USA.

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We understand the frequency, the cycle, of that restoration activity with sleep. And I realized it is the same with some of these other things. — Paloma Medina

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It's like saying, you know what? My life is crazy right now, so I'm not gonna sleep for five days, but then I have a two-day window where I'm just gonna sleep the whole time for two days, 48 hours, done, catch up. — Paloma Medina

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Some part of my brain understands that taking a two-week vacation in the Bahamas or whatever, some sunny, beautiful place, isn't going to make up for the things that are massively missing in my life. — Paloma Medina

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It helped me realize that so many of the details of my life...I'd advocated and I'd gotten creative about how to get them in my life. — Paloma Medina

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We seem to really like to grip about time management with people, but it's very rare that I overhear co-workers or colleagues being like, "so how do you fit in alone time?" — Paloma Medina

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