People get out of balance when they see their value as being able to respond quickly. If I see myself as a machine for answering email, then my work life would never stop because my email never stops. If instead I see my value as separating the important from the unimportant and making good decisions on the important, then I can go home at a reasonable hour, spend time with my family, ignore my email and phone messages all weekend long, and make sure that when I return to work, I am in the right mood to make the good decisions.
Keeping up with life is no easy task. Especially if you have an online business of some kind. The job of an owner is not doing all the mundane stuff, it is making wise decisions. You cannot make those decisions if you are consumed by what you created to set yourself free.
I personally offload as much of the work as I can to a computer. It's not smart, but it is good at sorting emails.
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