In a challenging economy, the prevailing mindset, generally, is to work as much as you have to in order to get ahead, stay ahead, or simply stay afloat. However, there's a difference between being committed and burying yourself in such a way that work takes you over, and you officially become a workaholic.
Recognizing that work runs your life usually doesn't come until you reach rock bottom, when either an important relationship fails, you actually screw up something at work because you aren't taking care of yourself, or you begin to notice that "something" is missing.
Recognizing it sooner rather than later isn't always easy to do. The world is so programmed to work-work-work that anything short of working, feels like failure, and it generally takes a hard knock to send us running the other direction.
The good news is that once you realize what you are doing to yourself and your family, the cycle can be broken with the following:
Personal Planning
Personal Planning is a tool that helps you take care of you! It puts you squarely in the driver seat with a written plan that says what you are committed to do in order to recharge your own batteries and by-when you are going to do it.
Personal plan item examples include reading a book, playing with your children, going for a bike ride, and even doing nothing! The point is to do things that YOU love to do and that will help you recharge.
Personal Planning is simple, and when combined with a team that holds you accountable for doing it, it is a very powerful tool.
Team Building
Workaholics aren't the best team builders. However, if you can get to a place where 1. you are willing to surrender control and not come from a place of believing you need to be in control of everything and 2. you understand that by building a team, you can meet your business/professional goals and have a life, then you have won half the battle of living life as a workaholic!
Accountability and Delegation
Accountability and delegation are the keys to overcoming a life of work-work-work. First of all, as a workaholic you have to be willing to be held accountable for living your written personal plan. Second, you must surrender control and delegate as much as possible to your team members. It is the only way you will get to where you want to be, with sanity, and have a life that you love!
Teaching
Finally, workaholics tend to be the people with all the answers – not like a know-it-all, but more as the keeper of all the stuff, the decision-maker, the person in control. The only problem is that in order to have a company or team of people continually moving forward, the 'answer person' always has to be available to tell their team what to do!
So, as someone who is committed to giving up your workaholic ways, you also have to learn how to teach those around you how to think on their own. This is best accomplished by being the question instead of the answer – asking your team what they would do if you weren't there when circumstances and/or questions arise.
There you have it, the keys to overcoming your workaholic ways. When you implement the above keys in your life, you will find yourself feeling lighter, happier, and more productive, because when you are charged up personally, your work goes smoother too.
So, yes, work is necessary to live the life you have, but living is also necessary to you to have the energy and passion you need to do your work. So what are you waiting for? Remember – money can't hug you. Only people can.
Recognizing that work runs your life usually doesn't come until you reach rock bottom, when either an important relationship fails, you actually screw up something at work because you aren't taking care of yourself, or you begin to notice that "something" is missing.
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The good news is that once you realize what you are doing to yourself and your family, the cycle can be broken with the following:
Personal Planning
Personal Planning is a tool that helps you take care of you! It puts you squarely in the driver seat with a written plan that says what you are committed to do in order to recharge your own batteries and by-when you are going to do it.
Personal plan item examples include reading a book, playing with your children, going for a bike ride, and even doing nothing! The point is to do things that YOU love to do and that will help you recharge.
Personal Planning is simple, and when combined with a team that holds you accountable for doing it, it is a very powerful tool.
Team Building
Workaholics aren't the best team builders. However, if you can get to a place where 1. you are willing to surrender control and not come from a place of believing you need to be in control of everything and 2. you understand that by building a team, you can meet your business/professional goals and have a life, then you have won half the battle of living life as a workaholic!
Accountability and Delegation
Accountability and delegation are the keys to overcoming a life of work-work-work. First of all, as a workaholic you have to be willing to be held accountable for living your written personal plan. Second, you must surrender control and delegate as much as possible to your team members. It is the only way you will get to where you want to be, with sanity, and have a life that you love!
Teaching
Finally, workaholics tend to be the people with all the answers – not like a know-it-all, but more as the keeper of all the stuff, the decision-maker, the person in control. The only problem is that in order to have a company or team of people continually moving forward, the 'answer person' always has to be available to tell their team what to do!
So, as someone who is committed to giving up your workaholic ways, you also have to learn how to teach those around you how to think on their own. This is best accomplished by being the question instead of the answer – asking your team what they would do if you weren't there when circumstances and/or questions arise.
There you have it, the keys to overcoming your workaholic ways. When you implement the above keys in your life, you will find yourself feeling lighter, happier, and more productive, because when you are charged up personally, your work goes smoother too.
So, yes, work is necessary to live the life you have, but living is also necessary to you to have the energy and passion you need to do your work. So what are you waiting for? Remember – money can't hug you. Only people can.
A well-known executive business coach, Clay Nelson is no ordinary, fly-by night, new-to-the-game coach! Clay Nelson has been coaching executives for over 30 years. Coaching from the core fact that growing people is the key to growing any business, Clay has helped countless business executives and their teams come together to not just improve their businesses, but to improve their lives.
Clay's personal life experience, years of coaching, and his natural abilities to motivate, teach, and develop leaders is what makes him stand apart as a leader in the field... committed to making a difference wherever a difference needs to be made.
Clay Nelson is also a well-regarded motivational and educational speaker, providing outstanding programs customized to the audiences he is speaking with. Able to speak on any number of topics within his noted specialties, Clay Nelson is known for moving audiences from the status quo to action as they create the businesses and lives they say they want to have.
For more information go to: http://www.claynelsonlifebalance.com
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