Making Time for the Whole Family

When I decided to make the change from work at the office to work at home, I expected to have a whole lot more time to spend with my family. I had envisioned day trips to the park with the kids, early afternoon movies with my honey and vacations where we would just pack up and leave on a whim, it seemed as though it would be so easy since I would no longer have a boss looking over my shoulder. The problem was I didn’t figure one aspect into the equation, myself.

Its something I have known for quite a while, I am a work-a-holic, I love working and once I get going it becomes very hard to pull me away from my project until its finished. I think I must have overlooked that or maybe thought I could change once I setup headquarters at home, but I didn’t. The reality is that I found myself working more hours than ever before, not because I had to but because I wanted to. I wanted to sit in front of this computer and type up articles, manage numerous websites and so on, I love it and thats why I do it to this day, but it was effecting my family and I couldn’t even see it.

I felt like it was a blessing for my family, I was home and they could see me or talk to me whenever they wanted, but I realized that I wasn’t really there, it was kind of a shell they were talking to. I mean sure I was sitting there, but I was so engrossed in the work that I couldn’t fully devote my attention to the conversation. It had got to the point where we would go out and I was always in a hurry to get home, I had to see if I missed anything important, maybe an email I was waiting on came through, or worse yet maybe one of sites were down and would often ruin the outing because I cut it short to be with my work. I hate to say it, but it was almost as if I were having an affair with the Internet.

It took me over a year to finally realize this myself, that even though I was technically spending time with my family, I really wasn’t spending time with them at all. Once I was able to see that I knew I had to make a change, but how do you stop doing something that you love? The easiest way is to think about which you love the most, because after a while you will have to choose one so it had better be the one you want. The one I wanted was my family, I love them with all of my heart, they are the reason I decided to work from home in the first place, to spend time with them.

The strange thing is, that even though I had began to sacrifice time from my work to spend with my loved ones, my business actually began to flourish, more so than it was before my insight. Now that I look back, I can see that sure I was spending 18 hours a day working, but most of the time I was so burnt out that the work just wasn’t good, it was hurting me more than doing good. So once I pulled away from the work a bit, I again was able to enjoy what I was doing with the added benefit of more free time to do what I really wanted to do.

The Moral of the Story

Whether you’re poor, rich, working or out of work you have to stop and realize what truly is number one in the grander scheme of things. You always have to put your family first, everything else can fall into place in a close second, but family has to come first. Once you put family first, everything else has this weird way of working itself out.

If you can do all of this, your life will be better, fuller and more enriched than it ever has been before, I promise. Just do what comes naturally and let your family know just how much you love them.

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What is the Best Match for a Sagittarius

So, if you are asking this question, you are either a Sagittarius looking for love, or someone in love with the sparkling vibrancy of the Sagittarius. In either case, the answer isn’t an easy one. There are some who say that the only true match for the Sagittarius is another Sagittarius, but I say “Bah”. Let’s look at this logically. Step by Step and find the best match for a Sagittarius.

Step 1: Who is the Sagittarius? You Sagittarian, are an optimist from the word go, none of that half empty glass for you. You are full of life, energetic, and upbeat. Oh the clouds do come in from time to time, but blue skies always follow close behind. You are independent, and adventurous, two very strong reasons why your love life seems to flit and flicker like a candle blown in the breeze. Lover’s it seems, either try to tie you down, or loose their sense of wonder in your eyes and you find yourself off on another mad dash into a new romance. Don’t loose hope, we all know that even if you’re a somewhat fickle love, you are a champion in the friendship department.

Step 2: Love for a lifetime? Perhaps lifetime is too strong a word for Sagittarius. When a Sagittarian falls in love, they are a shimmering, shinning star, pulling all the world toward love, they rejoice in the excitement of romance, passion and bring their fire to the party, warming the hearts of all who witness their love. Put quite simply, Sagittarians love to be in love. This is what usually draws us to them, quite literally a moth to their flame.

Step 3: Attracting and keeping a Sagittarius. Attracting a Sagittarian, or being attracted by a Sagittarian is the easy part. Their inquisitive mind, and love of gab will have them talking to anyone with something remotely interesting to say. Peak their interest, ask them questions, show them your own dynamic personality and you are half way there. Remember to be straight forward with the Sagittarian in your quest, they don’t like to be played the fool and take their emotions very seriously. Keeping on the other hand…. Well that is the part of the Sagittarian that the rest of us may never understand. Tie your knots with love, leave the doors of your heart open, and perhaps the Sagittarian will be with you for years, but if you nag, or hold to tight, or simply allow yourself to settle into a rut, you will soon loose your love to new experiences in the arms of another.

Step 4: The Best Match for the Sagittarius. Might just be you, but a life time of love may be too much to ask of the Sagittarius you cherish. “If you love someone, let them go, if they come back ….” might have been written just for a Sagittarian. The Sagittarian will keep you in his or her heart forever, if you respect their independence. If you lead a life of adventure, the years may flow by with your love by your side. Yes, regardless of astrological sign, you are the perfect match for the Sagittarius, if you are independent, adventurous, lively, funny, and can let go when the time is right, to allow the Sagittarian his freedom. Don’t worry, if the friendship has been tended as well as the romance, Sagittarius will be in your life an eternity!

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