Work Is So Not You

HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER

Title: Detach Yourself from Your Work

Competencies: managing self, self control, stress management, self development

Who benefits: any employee

Consultant Usage: very useful summary for executive coaches

What’s it about? During my peak performance years I stressed a lot about work.  Put in long hours.  Took it home with me.  Made a pretty good living … but at a cost.  During those years the price of success was the loss of a wife (long story) and several potential valuable friends.  I also put on a lot of unnecessary weight that I now have to work doubly hard to get any of it off (10 pounds in the past 10 months! … but that too is another story).

My own personal stories resonated when I read the short article Detach Yourself from Your Work.  Oh how I wish I had heeded that advice in days of yore.  But I pass it on to you in hopes that you will take three to five minutes to read it and another minute or two to digest it (calorie free). 

Somewhere along the vast Internet highway there is an old adage that says something about if you can’t be good to yourself you can’t expect others to be good to you.  If that doesn’t work, how about: take time to smell the roses.

Workaholics need not bother, but if putting a reasonable balance between your work life and the rest of your life is important, give this article a read.

Catch you later.
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Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley (mostly) retired after 35 years in organizational consulting, training and management development. During those years he worked internally with seven organizations and trained and consulted externally with more than 90 large and small businesses, government agencies, hospitals and schools.