Regrets of the Dying

Living life true to yourself is so important and should make you want to do a self-reflection assessment immediately. I did just that! And what I discovered about my life choices weren't very pleasing to me. But there's still time for change. Isn't there?

I stumbled upon this article written by Trent Hamm. He mentioned a care nurse who wrote about the regrets of the dying. Dying men regretted that they missed their children's youth and their partner's companionship. Dying women had some of the same regrets, but not as much as the men, since they weren't typically breadwinners.

These are feelings that a lot of us can identify with.

Balance is the key. But how do we do that? Should we use the 60/40 rule or 50/50 rule? I guess the 50/50 rule would be more accurate, wouldn't it?

Right now, I feel like I am in a pretty healthy place with regard to keeping my professional life in balance with other aspects of my life, but that was not always the case. In my early years of my professional career, I felt that I had to put in long hours (often not being compensated) to become great at what I do. All this at the expense of my health and family time.

I would say that I was probably living by the 90/10 rule. Was it all worth it? Not really. My priorities were all backwards.

But the biggest challenge in changing things is that there's a strong sense that if you rock the boat too much in terms of your career, or if you say "no" too much, you're going to find yourself without a job or even without a career at all. Especially if you work for corporate America.

The most important thing to recognize in all of this is this simple fact: if you feel like your lfe is out of balance, you're probably not performing well to begin with. So, " if you're juggling five chainsaws, you're probably not cutting down any trees."

You can't give quality work to everything, and you're likely just failing to complete some things that just fall through the cracks. There is a limit to how much you can actually do, and when you reach that limit or go beyond it, it goes from cutting down trees to juggling chainsaws.

So, how can you fix that without damaging your career or your income? Here's what I was able to figure out.

Build a life that doesn't require your current salary...a "light at the end of the tunnel." This is the absolute number one most important thing that you should be doing.

Now, that's where Steemit comes into play. I joined Steemit June 2017 and really believed that all I had to do was this; write posts, comment and up-vote. That's all! But that's not so.

You have to write engaging posts, interesting comments, and pay for up votes@thundercurator sometimes. And most of all love people and have a desire to reach out and build a community with like-minded individuals.

Is it easy? No!

Balance and managing your time and being consistent as @JoeParys would say is the key to being successful here on Steemit. You must spend time on the platform everyday and as @xposed blogged in a recent post...write 1 post per day, resteem twice a week, comment 10-15 times a day. Do this and you will start seeing "the light at the end of the tunnel"

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