When did the life-work balance become my very first six pack? I sat down at in my office ~8:30am today and hoping for a quiet smooth day – maybe turn on Pandora and just….enjoy the rain. It’s 3:30pm and the first 10 items on the to do list are still down around #18. I started to draw (I like to sketch idea) about how I can best get those projects in my day job done and also take care of life at the same time. Also, nobody told me the sun would come out!
I started drawing and then I realized I had to work on some charts in Excel – next thing I know I was diving my life into 6 areas (you would think I needed a personal assistant in SF). For now each slide has equal weight. There are days where the percentages and pie slices might shift (hmmm, pizza for dinner?), but alas, this is where I have come to. And because I am a PowerPoint/Excel dork, I made a chart and then a graphic and now a blog because this is what web marketing guys do, we blog….don’t we?
Now don’t get me wrong, I actually LOVE my day job. I work at a database tools & developer software company called Embarcadero Technologies. I get to be creative, I get have fun and I get to walk home sometimes through the gorgeous (and steep) hills of San Francisco – today feels like a Coit Tower day! But when I get home, my darling Silvia (the most amazing professional organizer in SF) and I will have dinner. But I can’t forget, Sunday I am volunteering at a Jewish learning event at the JCC (as a photographer). Then I would like to talk more with some non-profit groups about promoting local businesses and of course I have to make sure I count the calories (cause Weight Watchers wants my points!).
If you are reading this (ok for the 10 of you that are), give me your wheel, balanced at first. I’m curious, where does your time lie, where do your passions lie? The first time I went to Scotland in 2002 I was asked one great question that I have to ask myself everyday “….what are you passionate about?…”
Well…what are ya waiting for?
