A Manifesto
this is a manifesto of wholeness. of not shrinking to fit into boxes. of peeling away labels and shining in the radiance of all that i am. all that any one of us is.
for all of my life i have asked: where do i fit? why don’t i belong here? or here? why is there always one foot in each camp?
finally, i have come to accept my role as a bridge. i am not of one place or another. i am the being that connects them.
finally, i have come to accept my belonging as child of creation. there is no one place, because it is every place. there is no one me, there is all of me.
i am neither mother nor business owner.
i am both/and
i am neither spiritual nor material
i am both/and
i am neither productive nor restful
i am both/and
i have long rejected the term “work-life balance” because the distinction is a fallacy. there is not a life and then work. every minute is your life. it is both/and
businesses don’t work with just vision or just execution. they require both/and
from these lived experiences and these maturing realizations that ripple beyond my own life, the mission emerges.
both/and helps leaders and teams find their unique rhythms and rituals to create coherence and joy in business and life
Kate Andlund
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