Chapter 7

Make Time, Not Excuses, for Your Loved Ones

 

I keep a pretty good attitude about life by balancing out my personal life and my career. I keep burnout at a distance by engaging in the numerous activities outside of work that I enjoy.

—TINA M. GREENE, BINGHAMTON, NY

 

If I had kept a running count, I would say that it happened 9 out of 10 times: Whenever I was working in my home office, my 6-year-old (at the time) daughter Daecia would ecstatically skip down the stairs and into the room and ask (as only a precious little daddy's girl could), “Daddy, can we play Reader Rabbit?” And 9 times out of 10, I would say, “Baby, Daddy is busy right now, we can play later.” We both knew, however, that my “laters” were synonymous with ...

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