Of course it should be the season every day to stop and ponder what we are using our short lives to accomplish, what choices we are making and what we are actually getting done.

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Instead of comparing our lives with people we don't know who are making sacrifices we don't see, we should try to find the right balance between home and work life.

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"People are concerned about this, but we're on the forefront of making our customers' lives easier, " says Michael Marks, the CEO of Flextronics.

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Already we are a society that outsources much of our thinking to computers and the web, making our lives easier in the short term but potentially less so in the long run.

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