The Balance of Work

Are you making work your life? Maybe you love your job and you love to work long hours. It makes you feel good and fills you up. Great! It's wonderful when we love our work. But take a few minutes and think about your life. Is there anything besides work? Rarely can work truly be enough to create an extraordinary life.

Many times people feel that taking out time for themselves or taking time away from work for personal activities will detract from their work. What's surprising is that the opposite is generally true. Not only does our personal life "feed" us, it makes our work better. Look at the bottom of a pair of running shoes. See the design? You may remember back to when tennis shoes first had the waffle design on the bottom. The inspiration for that literally came from a waffle maker when someone at a shoe company was hanging out with his wife and making waffles. Now that's inspiration! And it came from personal time.

I know that when work isn't going great usually the best thing I can do is take a little creative sebatical. That might be an hour lyng in my hammock or a weekend camping trip. I know a business coach who schedules week long creative sebaticals into her calendar several times a year.

So take a look at the balance in your life. Are you using your work to create your life, or are you creating a life with work being a healthy piece?

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