{"id":1125,"date":"2009-10-27T09:45:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T13:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2009-11-18T19:29:57","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T23:29:57","slug":"how-hard-do-you-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/how-hard-do-you-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How Hard Do You Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know what a typical work day is for me?<\/p>\n<p>I usually wake between 9 and 9:30.  That may seem late to some, but stay with me.  I'll then spend most of the next 18 hours or so at my computer, doing something.  I might be writing or researching or creating something.  Almost everything I do, I do at the computer.  And therefore, often, I'm getting to bed between 3 and 3:30 in the morning; this past weekend, I went to bed at 5AM Saturday morning.  <\/p>\n<p>I also take in all my entertainment from the computer.  In the evenings I turn on the TV and I watch TV while I finally get to most of my business email.  And I have a lot of it to get to; luckily, I read fast.  I play online poker, free of course, and while I'm playing, I'm writing.  You might think I should just be concentrating on my poker playing, but the truth is that the best thing for me in playing poker is when I get to talk to people at the table when I'm at the casino.  At home, it's just something to slightly distract me while I'm working.  I also listen to all my music from the computer, which is pretty sad since I have my stereo system here in the room with me, including a DVD player and expensive speakers.  Overall, I like the convenience of having everything at hand, whereas, with the stereo, at some point I have to get up from the desk; it's not lazy, it's not wanting to take much more time away from what I'm doing.<\/p>\n<p>Because of how I am, I have to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imjustsharing.com\/starting-a-new-eating-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\">plan<\/a> when and how I eat.  I don't mean just saying I'm going to eat something at noon.  I have to actually book the time to eat, or set the alarm on my watch to go off at certain times.  I don't eat when I first wake up; sometimes it can be 3 or 4 hours before I eat, which I need to change.  After that, because I'm diabetic, I try to eat every 2 1\/2 to 3 hours, small meals, to help control my glucose levels.  When I'm not eating like that, I definitely go astray, and my body pays for it.  <\/p>\n<p>So, I can easily say that I work hard.  What I can't say is that I'm working smart.  I don't think I'm working all that smart at all, and that's not good.  Like many other people, I need to plan break times also.  I was doing that for awhile, and I need to get back to it.  The thing is, when I was working a traditional job, I never took breaks, and had to eventually learn how to at least eat lunch.  I also had to learn how to take vacations when I was working; at this point, I haven't gone away on a vacation in more than 10 years, and the last vacation time I took was in 2001.  <\/p>\n<p>I ask this question again; how hard to you work?  And, if you're a manager, how hard do you make your employees work?  I'd like some sharing with this one; maybe we'll figure out how to improve our quality of life together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know what a typical work day is for me? I usually wake between 9 and 9:30. That may seem late to some, but stay with me. I&#8217;ll then spend most of the next 18 hours or so at my computer, doing something. I might be writing or researching or creating something. 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