3 strategies to help you continue working harder than everyone else

If you’re anything like me, you feel a little guilty when you’re not working.

You know you can do more. Your family needs the income and your employees need their jobs. If you’re as competitive as I am, you know you need to work harder than the next guy to win.

The problem is that all work and no play will kill you. Literally. A quick search on reputable medical websites will show you the deleterious effects of consistently high stress levels, lack of sleep, lack of exercise and so on.

Hard work is awesome. Hard work all the time? Not so much.

You and I have a problem, and one of the ways I suggest dealing with this is the concept of overhead. Like our businesses, life has overhead. We need to sleep, eat, exercise, groom ourselves, care for our homes and so on. If you blow off the overhead in your business, it will shut down. If you blow off the overhead in your life, you will shut down.

Here are some thoughts:


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