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Taking Time for Yourself — DO IT.
You don’t have to earn time off.
It’s too easy to make work my whole life.
As a full-time work-from-homer, I am basically always at the office. My cell phone is my work phone and my personal laptop is my work computer.
It can be hard to disconnect and just be a wife, a friend, a sister, a daughter, a cat mom. I actually had to schedule my mother into my calendar this week, so that we could have a nice talk.
As much as I love my work and my life — which is really a lot and I have never been happier — I can feel it becoming more stressful.
I have to remind myself to step back and disconnect. I have to remember that I am allowed to have a life outside of work. Clients CAN wait until morning for me to respond to their emails, even though I feel compelled to respond at 10 pm.
I’m allowed to go run errands or go shopping or even knock off a bit early if I want. I can make time for the gym.
I have to continue to remind myself of all of this because it is so easy to fall into being so busy that I have no time for myself. And I…
