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The 3 Things That Suffer When Your Forget You Work To Provide, Not To Divide
Your family, friends, and loved ones should always be the most important in your life. The importance of a work-life balance remains under-appreciated in the employer-employee relationship.
We wake up, spend a few precious minutes with our loved ones, and go to work. For a great many people, that describes a routine day. The fortunate ones go to work and do something they’re passionate about, something they love, or something they don’t mind doing. Millions of others go to a job that is a means to an end, a paycheck. Essentially, we all are doing the same thing, trading services for currency to provide for ourselves and our families.
Not all jobs allow us the needed time to enjoy our families. Some jobs take enough out of people that even when you’re free to be with family and friends, it’s not as fulfilling for you or the ones you love. When the time between home and work begins to lose balance, things that should matter to us suddenly are more at risk. What have you seen people suffer through because they didn’t maintain a healthy equilibrium between work and their lives? What might you have suffered because of losing balance?