Maintain Balance Between Life and Work
To be truly happy, you must make a habit of maintaining balance between your
work and your personal life. The first step in achieving this balance is for you to
resolve to “work all the time you work.” The reason that most people feel that they
are under so much pressure from their work is because they waste most of the
working day. But unfortunately, even if you waste time, the work does not go away. It still has to be done sometime, and often it has to go home and get done in the evenings and on the weekends.
There is the story of the little girl who goes to her mother and says, “Mommy, why
is it that daddy brings a briefcase full of work home every night and never spends
time with the family anymore?”
The mother tries to explain. “Honey, you have to understand. Daddy can’t get all
of his work done at work, so he has to bring it home in the evenings.”
The little girl looks up at her mother and says, “If he can’t get all his work done,
why don’t they put him in a slower class?”
Taken from : Million Dollar Habits
