By xrayman on Skatehive
For some time now, I’ve been having a hard time maintaining a balance between my professional and personal life. Before January, I hadn’t felt this way, and it seems that there’s no reason for me to feel this way now either, since there hasn’t been an increase in my workload—neither in terms of volume nor complexity. Realizing that even though the circumstances haven’t changed, something inside me has, made me want to figure this out. I realized that perhaps something contributing to this had a lot to do with how I organize the time when I’m not working. Whether it’s the time I have before starting work, on the weeks I’m on the afternoon shift, or the time I have left until I go to bed and after leaving work, on the weeks I’m on the morning shift. Was there something I had changed since December that was making me feel out of place, unbalanced, or out of sync? Last year, starting in mid-August, I made a conscious decision to spend less time watching TV. This really helped me focus more