We must carefully and
strategically allocate our time among our relationships: Boundaries on how and
when we invest time in work and in our personal life help to ensure that we
have the proper investment in each category. In my daily interactions with folks, I see one
of the most compelling reasons for not working extremely long hours is that
this unbalanced investment of time resources leaves you with insufficient time
for activities like exercise, sleep, and relationships. These things are absolutely necessary in order
to boost real productivity.
As we
climb the ladder of success we eventually discover it is not a ladder at
all. We are climbing a pyramid. We get
increasingly lonely… we have fewer friends… family… relationships. There isn't
room at the top for several. There's
only room for one.
In a
desperate attempt to climb the ladder of success many men and women will
happily kick and trample on the heads of those beneath them. Sadly, cutthroat competition is simply the
way the world is. Some people fall into the trap of striving for success at any
price. Others just give up and depend on the system to take care of them as
they live off the labors of others. Both perspectives are way out of
balance.
In the fourth chapter of the Book of Ecclesiastes
we are given some powerful words of wisdom: “Two are better than
one, because they have a good return for their work: If one falls
down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who
falls and has no one to help him up!
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