THE LIFE OF PIE

HOW TO CREATE THE PERFECT WORK/LIFE EQUATION

Struggling to master the secret of the work/life balance? Grace has come up with an alternative that is better suited to our multi-faceted lives: the life pie. “The theory of the work/ life balance feels a bit too black and white. Just the idea of balance feels like a set of scales, which is constantly tipping over,” she says. “Instead, I tried to look at how I fit all of these different things in. I think we’re trying to achieve a roundness of all of these different things, but if you tried to do a pie chart with 1,000 slices, it’s going to look and feel crazy, so some slices will be made smaller or even shifted out at certain times. Being able to visualise life in this way justifies why we can’t always fit everything in. This system helps me to envision the fact that it’s fine for your life pie to be one big, multicoloured round and it will adjust at different times. It’s a little bit of everything.”