Try not to work on weekends
This may seems to be an unusual thing to say, however by work I mean professional work. I had managed in a vain attempt to get ahead of myself last year developed a habit of sitting down on Sunday afternoon & clearing out my inbox.
This is just taking time away from the things I should be doing as a father & a home owner – you should see, dear reader, what a mess my garden has become over the last couple of years, and I have neglected the upkeep on my house something shocking.
Why ? Why do I do this ? Why is this important? Somewhere along the way working for IBM is not going to be what I do, sometime, eventually, I have to retire from paid work, and if I’m lucky I will have good health, though given that there is no maximum retirement age in Australia (my minimum is 67) I suspect that one of the last things I will want to do is to clear up 25 years of backlog,
But that’s the trivial response.
The real reason is that in the longer term too much work is not good for anyone, not good for me, and not good for my employer. It makes the person one dimensional, some of the best people I know who do the best work, and are great at what they do, are not workaholics, so neither should I be.
The best example I know is John Cohn,, check it out.
Thanks for Reading
