Whatever work we do—paid or volunteer, working in the home or outside the home—the boundaries between personal, family, and work life can often run together.

Many of us struggle to juggle our responsibilities, wants, and many facets of our lives. Working and attending meetings remotely; hybrid schedules; and personal, volunteer, and work activities frequently blend into each other, leaving little distinction between them. This dissonance compels many of us to push our personal well-being to the sidelines.

As a music lover, I have come to appreciate the phrase work-life harmony. Our lives are symphonies in progress.

Creating a full, rich integration of life’s various components can be beautiful, yet challenging and difficult to balance. The term work-life harmony recognizes the realities of contemporary life—that for many of us, our work, family, and personal lives intersect, overlap, and flow together. How can we compose a harmony that empowers us to meet needs, demands, wants, and goals across work time, family time, and personal time?

Consider your own life. How satisfying is the harmony in your personal, family, work, and volunteer life? Of course, opinions about what constitutes harmony are different for each of us, but all of us need to make........

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