Are you a workaholic? Would

Are you a workaholic?

Would you rather spend time at work than at home?

Do you go on vacation - yet take the entire week to relax?

I used to be all three...up until I realised that my life was for living as well as working!

Even now - if I give myself a 'day off' - I have to stop myself from feeling guilty...feeling guilty that I should be sitting at my desk in my home office.

It's all about your priorities.

Sometimes you don't realise how important your family is...until it's too late. Sometimes you don't realise how important it is to really have a break to re-charge your batteries...until it's too late.

So - give yourself the weekend off - do absolutely nothing if you want to - or perhaps better still - devote the time to playing with your kids...or visiting friends.

I spent eleven years in a job making myself 'indispensable' - yet, in the space of less than a month after Connor's birth - both myself and my bosses realised that I wasn't so essential after all.

I had wasted some of the best years of my life working beyond the call of duty - but I am sure that I would have still got to the position I had if I had worked an hour less every day.

When you leave in the mornings before your kids wake up...and return in the evening after they are in bed - then it's a fair sign that perhaps you are working too much!

Don't make the same mistakes I did - make time for YOU and your family.

Your job will always be there...they won't.

Posted by vurnumg