May
8th
2009
Michelle Obama: She’s Just Like You and Me!
On work-life balance:
Everyone should have a chief of staff and a set of personal assistants.
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If people here are like me — I call myself a 120-percenter. If I’m not doing any job at 120 percent, I think I’m failing. So if you’re trying to do that at home and at work, you find it very difficult and stressful and frustrating.
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I have a chief of staff and a personal assistant, and everyone needs that. [Source: Washington Post]
It must be tough to do that 120 percent when you’ve already got your assistants doing the 100 percent and you just have to do the 20.