You have heard, of course, the expression "work-life balance"; because we actually spend so much time in the office, we could rewrite it like this: "work-work balance". 

You've probably already seen images from Google or Facebook headquarters - hammocks, informal dining and work spaces, innovative ways of re-organizing office space.

What stops us from wanting a happy office lifestyle so much that we don't push harder for it?

After all, how much are even we (without help) able to get a work-work balance so good that we enjoy going to the office, answering hundreds of emails, phone calls and client meetings?

After all the studies in recent years about what it means happiness (= "inner peace", = "balance in front stress-), you would say we are ready (we have the resources, the methods, the intention) to reorganize our office life so that we are healthy, fulfilled, productive and happy.

Here are some ideas:

- why don't you replace the term "time management" with "managing my inner state"?

I think that this problem of time organization and productivity is wrong - mechanistic. It comes from a technical-analytical thinking: I have two resources - man and his 8-hour time - how do I make him produce more in 8 hours? But we are not machines - to which this thinking would work. Because you can't mechanically increase a man's workload without unload elsewhere (inner peace). Put correctly this problem would sound like this: how can I choose the best person for the best role (i.e. to like what he/she does) + how can I manage my employees' moods so that they are productive.

- how about listening to your inner state in every moment and according to it choose what you do?

Now you will say that certain things have to be done because they "have to be done", that you can't afford it, there are "deadlines", "reports and meetings", etc. Who chose to be in that place you're in? Now you will tell me that you had no other possibility, you have to earn a living, you have to earn a living, it's a year of crisis, etc.. How long will this fear of risking your discomfort keep you from your potential happiness? We can go on forever: you with the excuses, me with the questions. Finally, it all revolves around your life that flows every day (happy - life - time - management, right? 

I have met someone in the last month who told me that she has never been to a personal development course (of any kind); how can you really know what you are good at and can bring you fulfillment in life if you don't look for yourself? Do you think the life/organization where you sit 8-12 hours a day really offers you all the opportunities to discover yourself?

An invitation to an honest answer: with a pen on a piece of paper, from top to bottom draw as many turning points in your life: elementary school, high school, college, first job (second, third, etc ... until the current one).

Join them with a line, in chronological order. Then, look at each turning point and answer: "what else would I have liked to do at that time?" (e.g. "economics college" - "I would have liked to go to law school"). And for each such option that is past (but valid at that time), at each turning point, draw a line down the side of the line.

How many sidelines are there? How many opportunities have you passed up? How did you happen to pass them up? Did someone influence you to choose in these moments, did someone force you, did someone attract you? Or is it simply the way you chose? Are you proud of it and will it be the same from now on?

What can you do next?

Personal elections in life are not like presidential or parliamentary elections (once every 4-5 years); they are every day. And the second difference is that you are the voter and also the elected one. Vote!