Have You Lost Perspective?
By Bob McGannon, PMP

In the business world we live in today, one of the greatest personal challenges we all have is to be satisfied with the work we get done and maintain balance or perspective in our lives. In an attempt to assist with the evaluation of perspective in your life, here are a series of questions/statements you can use to determine if you have become too one-dimensional:

Have you spent at least one hour this week on a hobby?

Have you eaten dinner, at least twice, at a leisurely pace this week?

Have you spent uninterrupted time playing with your child(ren) this week?

Do you have to schedule time with your spouse, rather than depend upon being available after work?

Your spouse calls you on your cell phone to talk to you – and you both are home!

Have you cancelled a vacation day more than once in the past two years?

Have you cut back on physical exercise?

Have you spent a weekend this month without touching your laptop or any other work materials?

Have you sat and watched a movie lately?

Do you lose sleep once a week or more turning over work issues in your mind?

Have you told a family member “I know I promised, BUT…” ?

Have you taken your corporate id badge to try to open the door to your home?

Have you had lunch with a peer in the last two weeks?

Are you more than two trips behind on submitting your expense accounts?

Have you found yourself reaching for your pager or cell phone and checking if it is working if you haven’t been paged/called lately?

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