All work and no play makes Ryan bitter and mean

I know it has been some time. You know what happened? Life.


For some of us, life is our work and that is just all right. But for people, like your’s truely, I play lots of different roles during my day. Granted I am not the industrious person in the world, but I do have times when my priorities have to change to match my life. Do you know that the best way to cram for an exam is not to pull an “all-nighter”, but to plan naps into your schedule? It doesn’t seem like the obvious thing to do.

I’m bringing up my priority changing situation to discuss your current situation. Over the last few years, I’ve read dozens of articles talking about people losing sleep. Sleep is rest. If you are always working and never rest… it doesn’t make you a dull boy/girl. Lack of rest makes you the cranky, prickly, stressed-out, control-freak you can be. (And that’s on a good day.) When you are not well rested and at ease, you can affect others negatively. You share your mood and attitude with anybody around you like that phone commercial. You tell two friends, then they tell two friends and so on.

So, as my annual reminder, take some time for yourself. Schedule it in if you have to. You are human despite what others may think. (Its okay, I don’t believe a word of what they say about you.) Unwind and kick your feet up. Because when the boss walks in face-red, veins flared, and yelling so forcefully spit is flying: you’ll want that relaxed demeanor. Stay cool everyone!