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Life-Work Balance
By tonet on Aug 9, 2007 in Life and Experience
Do you feel that the only life you have is work? That all your energy, thoughts, and time are consumed by your job? That you are a slave to your work and therefore have very little time and energy left for family, friends and outside interests?
Yes, sometimes I do. Something needs to be change because a life without proper work-life balance can seem like no life at all. I used to work on night shift for almost a year. One day, I woke up, and said “I need to have a LIFE.”
We are now living in a 24/7 society. Divisions between personal life and work are becoming increasing fragile. Work can intrude into outside life through emails or texts. There is always some message to answer. Always something that needs doing!
Are you living to work or working to live? Sure sometimes we need to pull out all the stops and for a while work may need extra attention. But if your life is suffering on an ongoing basis then you need to seriously address your own work/life balance. Sustained stress can cause terrible damage to your mental and physical state, not to mention your relationships.
Achieving work and life balance is about putting boundaries around your own time, protect and nurture it. Your family, your mind and your body will thank you for it!
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