There is one other piece about balance that I would bring into this. People have always asked me about advice from mentors, practical, specific advice. And a lot of it is just good common sense. But sometimes good common sense turns out to be wrong. And I remember a particular mentor saying to me, “I’m going to tell you a secret. People are not going to necessarily agree with this, but try it and see how it works."

And the secret was what he referred to as “an unbalanced schedule.” So people will tell you that would be a really good idea to make your schedule and sort of even things out. But his suggestion was, “If you really want to have time for the family, maybe what you want to work is 10-12-14 hours on Mondays or Tuesdays, so that on Wednesday you can leave at 2:00 and go and be with your family and do things and really be committed to that.”

That’s exactly what I think helped me get through the first several years that were very demanding in my career, not saying to them, “Well, you’re not going to see me for a while because I've got to get these preliminary studies done . . . "

It turned out that if I worked a lot a couple of days a week, I had a couple of days a week where I could really work minimally, and then be there and actually interact with family. That was a very valuable piece of advice.