Is It Really Hard To Step Away From Work You Care About?

‘It’s hard to step away from work

you care about and identify with,

but rest and renewal are crucial to progress.’- Brad Stulberg

Work is life. Work is not just about earning a living. It is more than that. Work is sacred. It is spiritual.

If you love your work, you feel like yourself. You feel good about your life. You want to do more. But doing more work comes with a cost.

Loving what you are doing is one thing. Allowing what you are doing to take charge of your life is another thing.

Work is life. But do not over do it. If you are tired, take a short break. If you are feeling exhausted, take a break. When you come back, then find a better way to do it.

Do not allow yourself to be controlled by your work. If you find it hard to do something else, if you do not have time for your loved ones, if you can’t have a cup of coffee with your partner, with your friends, if you can’t have quality time with yourself, if you don’t have time for God, then your work is in charge of your life.

If that is you, you can change it. You can reposition your life for greatness. Because greatness comes from living your life, from loving yourself more than your work, from spending quality time with yourself, from actually doing what matters.

Greatness comes from knowing when to say, ‘enough is enough’. If you don’t know when to say enough is enough, then you are under the control of your work. You are not working to live a better life. You are living to work. Do not do that to yourself. Because your life is more than your work.

So if you are tired, if you find yourself not enjoying what you are doing, then take a break. If you don’t, then life will do it for you.