Don't Forget the Roses

Most of us here at WA work hard at trying to establish our businesses. We spend long hours writing SEO-friendly blog posts tied to keywords in an engaging writing style.

We try to be good neighbors in WA answering questions and learning new techniques with WordPress Sites.

We establish a working routine, try to develop good habits, use time management techniques while keeping track of everything else that is going on in our world.

There is life outside of WA - hard to believe sometimes but there is! There are friends and family that need to be taken care of and establish memories with - because, well, time flies by!

There are only so many grains of sand in our hourglass - and what is even worse, we do not know how many grains we have! But as a doctor, I can tell you with one-hundred percent certainty that we all have a finite amount.

We need to stop and smell the roses!

I am now approaching 70 years old - hard to believe! Where has the time gone?

I truly enjoy being here in WA and am really enjoying my stay here, but there is no forgetting that time developing a business and/or website is time away from family and friends.

I try to advise my children not to let go of friendships they have while they are young. Otherwise, when you get older you will lose contact with them and they will be lost forever.

So the question is how to balance work and home life?

That is the eternal question working people have to face every day - balance.

As Stephen Covey would say you do not want to climb the ladder of success to find out at the end of your life that you were on the wrong ladder!

I find that I often need to actually put some family time in my schedule to try to achieve some balance. Otherwise, the time never seems to come where we can all get together for family time.

How does everybody else handle this difficult balancing act?

Dave.