Healthy Balance

Dear Dr. Gary.

My career requires that I work long hours and can be stressful at times but it’s very rewarding. If I am to be successful and get promoted I have to invest the time in my work.  How do I find a healthy balance and not let my work consume me?

Dear Healthy Choices,

Your career is important. So are the Choices about the rest of your life. I am assuming that your comment about your career that it is both rewarding financially and spiritually yet there is a conflict of stress and lack of balance.

You need to build a plan that includes stress relief and balance as part of the plan and then become an expert at balancing all. Otherwise rewards of body and spirit will be lacking and their absence will catch up with you.

Your commitment to yourself and your well being needs to equal if not surpass your commitment to work and ambition.

In the same way you have regular hours and responsibilities at work, you need to have regular eating, exercise, rest, relaxation, stress relief, sleep and spirituality away from work.

You owe it to yourself to make those guarantees to yourself. If you can’t succeed on your own, get a life and wellness coach.

Without taking care of yourself first you will eventually burn out and all you work and responsibility at work will be for naught.

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