Dom, while I appreciate your comment, I have no interest in being an "expert" in much of any area of my life. That is the word that I am calling out. I push myself, you bet. To expect ourselves or anyone else to become EXPERTS at work life balance (which is a complete and utter misnomer) mindfulness, etc. is what I'm poking at here. Of course I push myself. That's not the point. However if you're a fan of Jessica Wildfire and many others, you will see their very real and very well justified pure exhaustion at all the exhortation to MASTER this, MASTER that, become an EXPERT in this or that or other and then you will be happy. There is none of that in my writing. I love to push myself, on my terms, in my own way. There is nothing about establishing expertise in these areas. Her sentence: " For me, besides becoming an expert at work-life balance, mindfulness, and many other practices that can help me enjoy the present moment, aging well is a priority."

I appreciate your comment, and I would challenge you to re-read hers. All we can do is commit to continuous improvement. This compulsion to be an "expert" at such things is what is so mind-killing, so enthusiasm-draining. It is unrelenting in its pressure. I love to push hard but I will be an expert at nothing. I gave up on work-life balance years ago, mindfulness is an ongoing practice that nobody understands and everyone bandies about like it's some thang to put in your backpack. And the way the sentence is written sounds to me like a death sentence. There's a big difference between pushing myself for fun, which I do, and forcing myself to reach some utterly unreachable and unreasonable standard of expertise. Big difference. But that's just me.