All work and no play.

So let me ask you a question. When was the last time you brought work home with you?

It would appear from the MANY conversations I have regarding this, that most of us, take work home some of the time, and lots of us take work home most of the time but to what end?

Does it make the volume of work get smaller? Does it allow you to exist in a stress free environment? I am predicting probably not, in fact it usually has the opposite effect.

We seem to have an inability to accept that for most jobs the work never gets finished, the in-tray is never empty, that enough is enough.

It is time to make a stand against ourselves, taking work home habitually is not good for us, our relationships or our families. So our challenge this time is to not take work home for a week.

Then observe if anything really changed at work in terms of our function, did the in-tray get so much bigger, or did we actually start managing our time or our boundaries (that would be the No word!)

and on the flip side what did we get to do at home and for ourselves?

And as an aside, I would argue strongly that our primary aged children should not be bringing work home with them. They 'work' at school for 30 hrs. Home should be a place where they get to play, and explore being a child. One could argue that homework affected us negatively, normalising a really unhealthy habit. Might need to rethink our approach.

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