A senior role can create distance between a person's commitments and the way they spend their days. The executive may be successful by external measures while unsure which parts of that success they still want to pursue.
The question deserves a more specific discussion than an instruction to find balance.
Examine a current tradeoff
Choose a decision involving time, money or responsibility. State the business obligation and the personal commitment affected. Avoid assuming that either side should always prevail.
Ask whether the conflict is necessary or produced by an arrangement that can change. A recurring late meeting may reflect a genuine time-zone constraint, or it may be a habit nobody has reconsidered.
Make a commitment usable
Turn a value into a boundary or action that others can understand. If family time matters, explain the availability arrangement. If professional integrity matters, define what you will do when a commercial request conflicts with it.
Discuss the consequences with the people affected. A private intention may not survive public expectations that remain unchanged.
Reflection, religious practice or another personal discipline may support the executive, according to their beliefs. The corporate task is to make choices deliberately and communicate them reliably. Grounding becomes useful when it changes how a real tradeoff is handled.
