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Old 01-16-2023, 10:56 AM
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Great focus on the re-balancing efforts, Mizz. Throughout my corporate career I said yes to everything and then doubled my workload due to my need to do things perfectly. Oh they loved it, lol. I burned out a couple times - once when I was a senior executive and quit to do a more zen type of thing for five years, and then later on when I made the mistake of going back into the same industry as a system engineer and realized after 5 unhappy years that my head just wasn't into it anymore - so I retired.

It would have been MUCH BETTER to have found that balance of REWARDING WORK.. and the personal-spiritual... and satisfy all aspects of my life, which I was only able to do from time to time The zen thing was fantastic - sustainable land development - and the project turned out well as it leveraged my strengths, but it was a limited opportunity and the real estate crash and subsequent market meltdown put an end to that. I think you are doing really well and are on the right track.
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