| While working hour upon hour may pay off where | | | | friends and family can become stressful when |
| your bank account is concerned, it's sure to | | | | your mind is swimming with all the things to be |
| wreak havoc on the rest of your life. Success is | | | | done at the office. A conscious effort to forget |
| meaningless if it doesn't touch all areas of your | | | | work is needed to break this habit. Remember, |
| life. Who wants to be rich if it causes the rest of | | | | someone that is distant and distracted does not |
| your life to be empty? Being a success isn't only | | | | make for a fun companion and will likely damage |
| about being at the top of your game in your | | | | their relationships. **Learn to delegate.** Studies |
| business life, it takes into account all areas of your | | | | show that successful individuals are not those that |
| life. For workaholics, it's a hard prospect to | | | | bury themselves in work, they are the individuals |
| consider: taking a step back from their business | | | | that simply know how to delegate to make the |
| lives. Often they feel that if they let go of any | | | | most of their time. Many workaholics have a hard |
| part of their work, they stand to lose everything | | | | time with this, believing that the best way to get |
| previously gained. In reality, slowing down doesn't | | | | a job done well is to do it themselves. This belief |
| mean giving up on achieving your business goals, it | | | | could actually damage your career instead of |
| simply means finding ways to work smarter to | | | | helping it. For example, when a business owner |
| give you balance in your life as a whole. It means | | | | takes on non-incoming earning tasks such as |
| getting your working (or shall we say | | | | research, data entry, fielding the company`s |
| "over-working") habits under control and optimizing | | | | incoming emails or calls, and micro-managing |
| the time you do spend working in order to get | | | | employees, he or she is losing time that could be |
| more done in less time. The following are some | | | | spent on the money earning aspects of his or her |
| tips that are sure to help you curb your | | | | business. Delegating these tasks to an in-house |
| workaholic tendencies: **Keep an agenda.** Use it | | | | employee, or outsourcing to a virtual assistant to |
| to schedule your day. Plan your work time, family | | | | save costs, would free up the entrepreneur's time |
| time and whenever possible, schedule some time | | | | to earn more money for the business. These are |
| for R & R. Remember that overextending | | | | just a few of the many strategies that you can |
| yourself is sure to result in burnout. The goal here | | | | use to find the balance that is needed to become |
| is balance, not adding more hours to your day. | | | | a success in all aspects of your life. The key is |
| Foregoing sleep is unlikely to make you more | | | | stepping out of your comfort zone and away |
| productive in the long run. **Allow yourself to | | | | from those workaholic tendencies to see what |
| forget about work for a while.** For workaholics | | | | works best for you. I guarantee you will be glad |
| this step is easier said than done. Time with | | | | you did. |