“You know, it’s a nice idea, but I don’t think that it’s real,” Morosani said of work-life balance. “It’s really hard to have work-life balance.”

Morosani’s days are varied and often unpredictable. Her work as a financial advisor for Sharp Financial involves a variety of tasks: onboarding clients, reviewing billing, tracking down paperwork, and adjusting her calendar when appointments are canceled or clients don’t show up. Outside of work, there are dogs to walk (Lena and Tia, two “sweet, high-energy” Weimaraners), a home and garden to maintain, a long list of activities she enjoys, including tennis, golf, baseball games and travel.

Rather than trying to draw a firm line between those pieces of her life, Morosani has learned to accept how much they overlap.

“I used to think that you could compartmentalize,” she said. “Now I’m realizing as a woman I don’t compartmentalize very well. Women do a lot of juggling, and we are multitaskers, and we have things going on all the time. It is all work and life. It’s the same.”

One of the most effective ways Morosani has found to make room for herself is simply putting things on the calendar. She plays in a USTA tennis league on Monday nights, an obligation that forces her to wrap up her workday and shift her attention elsewhere. She has also participated since 2010 in an LPGA amateur golf group, which plays Tuesday nights at The Omni Grove Park Inn. Scheduling those activities creates a boundary that might not otherwise exist.

Morosani also finds a blend in her personal and professional lives through her participation in Tony Robbins programs, which covers topics like leadership, business, finance, and personal development. She describes herself as a “learn it all,” a mindset that allows room for continual improvement rather than demanding that she already have everything figured out.

“I give myself permission to say, ‘I’m a work in progress,’” Morosani said. “On the personal side, you’ve got to develop yourself, so that you can be better at work.”

Increasingly, that growth has meant learning when not to strive. Morosani believes women can place unrealistic expectations on themselves, so she has consciously lowered the standard from perfection to something more manageable.

“I think women are perfectionists, and so I’ve moved my standard from perfection to 80/20,” she said. “Good enough is good enough.”

That also means saying no. Morosani currently serves on two volunteer finance committees, for the Rotary Club and ABCCM, and has decided that is enough, even when other opportunities arise. She is also trying to narrow the number of goals she expects herself to accomplish in a single year.

She loves gardening and has spent significant time this year rebuilding the tree canopy on her property after losing about 70 trees during Hurricane Helene. She also prioritizes travel because it brings her joy.

“I think now that I’m getting older, I’m getting more into my authentic self,” she said.

Work isn’t something Morosani is trying to escape in order to enjoy the rest of her life. She genuinely enjoys what she does, further blurring the boundary between the professional and personal parts of her days.

“I just love my job, and helping people,” she said. “I love doing what I do, and the more I learn, the more I learn how I can serve my clients. And it’s just fun.”

For Morosani, balance is less a perfectly divided scale than a process of prioritizing: scheduling the things that matter, accepting unpredictability, continuing to learn, and deciding which expectations are worth carrying.