Lessons From a Workaholic

How you manage your time each day says a lot about your leadership. I was recently reminded of this when a project started to dominate my life. This project was providing nicely for my family, but it was preventing me from spending valuable time with my family during the week. After the project, it took me nearly three weeks to fully de-stress and come back to my full self.

Where did I go wrong? Looking back on it, I realized a few principles that I’ve known but got to busy to remember:

1. Just because more work becomes available doesn’t mean I should take it. This means being willing to turn down opportunities that come my way to make more income for my family if it means sacrificing more time away from them.
2. Working long days in an effort to build up free time later never works. You must pay for it somewhere, so if you start to sprint you’ll be winded once the project is done.
3. Often, the opportunities you are working hard on are not the ones that God would prefer us to focus our energy. This means we must be willing to pace ourselves to stay fresh for when the amazing opportunities arrive

May these lessons from a relapsed workaholic will help you manage your time better.

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