Work is important but you can’t work well without maintaining a good health! Always honor yourself with what YOU need and step AWAY from the computer when necessary. The world will not implode if you take care of yourself FIRST.
.-= Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach´s last blog ..Today’s Humor of the Day – Funny Microsoft Windows Errors =-.

There’s so much more to life than work; yet, it’s far too easy to forget that when we’re right smack in the middle of the quest to make a buck! It’s so tempting to throw ourselves so completely into our work that we have little time for anything — or anyone — else. And that’s really sad when we stop to think about it (if we stop to think about it).

Balance is so important and yet can be so difficult to achieve. Perhaps balance is a state of mind — or at least starts with a state of mind — one that recognizes the importance of living life to its fullest. Once we recognize that living a full life includes far more than work, it becomes so much easier to see beyond the daily grind and seek new, creative ways of working more effectively so there’s time left over for the things that really matter.