Work AND Life--- a word to the wise

In our society, the biggest challenge is to focus on your life, your family, and your "outside-of-work" activities with the same diligence that most of us use to focus on our jobs and on our work assignments.

Sure, work pays the bills, but "jobs" and assignments come and go. There are no guarantees and nothing is permanent in work life. Furthermore, it looks as though we'll all have several careers and a number of jobs/assignments/projects in our future.

So it makes sense to invest ourselves just as fully in things that are not work-related and which help us attempt to achieve some balance and respite in our lives and to focus on our families, activities, and outside interests.

There is a saying: "You have your kids only once, and then they're gone." And it's the same way with family,friends, and our "outside-of-work" activities. Unless we cultivate them the way we cultivate our work and work relationships, we risk running on empty.