Now, we are not in a Stephen King novel, nor are we stuck in a secluded snowed in resort in the middle of winter with supernatural forces playing against our sanity.
However, we are working women, women business owners, women entrepreneurs. When there is work to be done, we are the ones to do it, right? We have a business to run and a household to run.
Here is the danger. Real life poses a much bigger threat than any thriller novel could capture. We also have a life to run. And not just run, enjoy.
I mean E N J O Y!!!! Savor, indulge, live, experience!!!
If we stay buried in work, our life will pass by without our participation.
I know it's not Christmas, but my mind turns to Scrooge in the Dickens novel. Through a series of life events, he chose to bury himself in his work to the neglect of all those around him. The spirits showed him that if he didn't change his ways, he would end up alone.
I am certainly not suggesting that you will end up alone, nor will you end up going insane and on a rampage like Jack in The Shining.
But you are going to miss the best parts of life waiting for them to come.
Work is truly important. More for women entrepreneurs than for any other segment of the working world, because we are working with a mission, a purpose. We are striving daily to bring more joy, health, freedom, and the list goes on to the world. For many, our work IS a source of joy and that is a blessing and a gift.
But this does NOT exclude you from the need to play!!!!!!
Every day find a way to play. You don't have to take the afternoon off, but do it.
- If you pass a park with a swing on your lunch break, take 5 minutes and soar
- If you are walking down a sidewalk that has been chalked with a hopscotch board, HOP
- Look up at the clouds and SPIN - unless you have vertigo of course
- Turn off the television and computer and pull out a board game tonight
- Blow bubbles
Today, I am going on a picnic, and then a sail on a Tall Ship on Lake Michigan along the Chicago skyline with my amazing husband.
I'd love to hear how you played today!
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