How do you keep your social life going when you have so much to do at work?
I try to block out as much time as I can which is difficult because I tend to be a workaholic. I enjoy the pressure and I like the stress and I like the - you know, there's a couple different kinds of stress. There's you stress which is good stress and there's distress which is obviously the bad kind. But good stress is the kind of stress that the pressure of your daily activates allows you to kind of thrive on it and you're energized by it and you turn it into something fun and so what I do is I try to look at my weekly calendar. I'm visual. I know in today's technological age that everyone's got their Blackberry, their pda. It's all paperless. I'm old fashioned. I like my steno pad for my to-do list and it sits on the passenger seat of my car. And I like my weekly, black, good old fashioned, cheap little weekly calendar that I can look at each day and say "Wow, that Friday night, honey, let's go to dinner." Or this Saturday morning I'm going to go to the gym that day and then I can see what I have to look forward to for the rest of the week. And so all these meetings and all these owners kinds of tasks and things aren't so bad because I've scheduled in visually, fun things to do, whether it's a Pilates class or going to lunch with my mom or seeing a movie, or going to play a round of golf with my family. Something like that to really keep us together, keep us connected and I can actually see that over a seven day period, wow, that's a lot of work and not very much for the family. Is this week all about me or am I putting myself out there to do something decent, something helpful and something good. Is there any charity work in there? And so, for me personally, and it's different for everyone, for me that really works. It's very effective.
