Roy Kelley Sells Maryland Homes : If you're a workaholic, take a break!

If you're a workaholic, take a break!

I've always been a workaholic. Although still a somewhat pejorative term, to me a workaholic is simply someone who is addicted to work, either out of necessity or because of a severe love of what s/he is doing. Workaholic is often applied to the self-employed who, out of sheer necessity, is working to make an honest living.

I'm at a point in my life where I consider myself a controlled workaholic, a term that, to the best of my knowledge, I coined in 1987.

A controlled workaholic? What the heck is that?

Simply put, it's a workaholic who has to plan his personal life to keep his business life from overrunning it. So in 1987, when I was forced to become 100% self-employed rather than relying on an employer to pay me a salary, I conscientiously decided to control my workaholism rather than letting it control me.

It works! So if you are a workaholic, or think you might be going in that direction due to what you have to do in this economy to merely survive, simply schedule time for yourself. You can schedule five minutes every hour, or ten minutes every two hours, or 15 minutes every three hours. You will be surprised at how refreshed you are.

I schedule five minutes every hour. I simply walk away from the computer for five minutes each hour and walk out to look at my garden, go play with Zoey the Cool Cat, or read a short article in the newspaper or a magazine.

Plan what you're going to do each day, each week, and each month to reach the rest of your 2010 goals, and I'd be willing to bet that you actually do reach them. Remember that even though this is the beginning of September, it's never to late to start planning. In fact, every day that you fail to plan puts you one day closer to your plan to fail.

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