Excellent exploration of the notion of balance and the cost of our resistance to creating it in a futile attempt to be all things to all people.  You point to a context that I think is clearly in the way for many - that productivity is a function of being more and more efficient as our plate overflows so we can do more and more vs about learning to be effective which requires we make strategic choices in every domain so we leverage the best of what we have to offer and keep our attention on what is most important to us,