20 things more important than work

I have a hard time remembering that my job is not always the most important thing in life. I’ve been like this ever since I worked at Boston Market back in high school/college. I found that I won favor with the managers if I was super dedicated to work and it served it’s purpose at the time. Well, I have maintained that belief over the last bazillion years of my working life and it’s been known to get me into a pickle from time to time. I’m trying to learn that yes, work, my job, my career, whatever you want to call it, is important, but it’s not the end all. When 5 rolls around (or 5:30 Mon-Thurs and 2 on Fridays in my case) other things take priority. To help me retain this information and enforce this belief a bit more, I decided that I would list 20 things off the top of my head that are more important than work… here goes:

1) Laughing with my husband
2) Taking care of my fish
3) Catching a flight for a long weekend away
4) Going out with friends
5) Helping out my family
6) Hanging out with my friends and their kids
7) Shopping
8. Going to the gym
9) Reading a book
10) Getting my car washed
11) Seeing my nephew
12) Getting a Mani-pedi
13) Running the errands I was too busy having fun to do on the weekend
14) Kitties (you knew it had to be somewhere on this list)
15) Talking on the phone with my mom
16) Rock Band
17) Meeting Stacy and Clinton (a long shot, but I had to include it in case it ever happens)
18) Thai Food
19) Anything having to do with babies
20) Going to the doctor

There, that wasn’t so hard. Maybe I’ll try to come up with 20 more tomorrow. Cheers!

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