| I too love having hard work to do and pouring myself into being a part of as much as I can. I have discovered that, when my personal life has suffered and waned, it's because I'm trying to be a part of too much of the work. The choice I've needed to make is whether I can give up some of the direct personal responsibility that I've internalized over the success of the program I run (big company). If you can't be aware of the limits to your personal capacity, you'll end up living in the exhausted, stress-hormone-overdosed purgatory of burnout land, your body rebelling against your refusal to "go home" at the end of the day. On the "things to do" side, I do better now that I keep a phone for work and don't put any work anything on my personal phone. I do carry both through the day, but I put the work one face down when I'm done and leave it on my desk until the next day. The work computer is similarly separate from where I'm writing right now, and it too goes on silent mode and closed when I'm done. I'll go as far some weeks to unplug it on Friday and tuck it away, just to really remind myself that I'm not on the clock. |