What Comes First? Work or Life?

I am learning something: family issues and crises can have a very debilitating effect on one’s productivity, focus, stress levels, ability to do more than one thing at a time, etc. Over the last 2 months I’ve had to provide very hand’s on care for an elderly family member – and man, am I thoroughly drained and exhausted -  emotionally and physically. There’s hope though, we’ll be enlisting professional help on a permanent basis.

But what about you? How do you deal with these kind of crises? There are probably many thousands who just have to ‘suck it up’ with no options for help. I hope that’s not you.

One good thing for me though has been this:

a reinforced realisation that work needs to flow around life, not life around work.

Applying that philosophy is tough. But I believe it can be done successfully – y’know, to have work come second to what’s really important in one’s life – family, health, wellness, relationships, spiritual things.

What do you think?

By the way – rain, rain, rain in Cape Town. What’s happening!? Red and Jet (our horses) are trudging around looking in vain for a dry spot. It’s November!