How do you stop your personal life from interfering with work?
For me personally, I have an ability to compartmentalize things that are happening in my life. So, if there's someone who's sick or, god forbid, someone was dying or whatever it happens to be. If there's tragedy of some sort or there's just the daily pressures of life where things are going on and you're, you know, you have things to do, it's hectic, not the most fun types of things that creep into your mind, you have to be able to sort of leave it at the door, and when you're getting on a plane to go to work or you're getting into your car to drive to work, whatever it is, you just say "OK, I'll deal with that when I get home. Right now, this is the job I have to do. Right now, I owe this 110% to my client or I owe all of myself to the task at hand." Whatever it is that you're doing, and you just have to get used to being able to say, "This is going to be here when I get back, I'll deal with this a little later." Because if you're thinking about the things that are sort of the mundane things in life or the things that are bothering you, we all have drama going on all the time, everyone does. If you think about that and then you try and go and do your job, you're really not giving a hundred percent to either one. So you owe it to yourself, your family, whoever it is that you're working for, or with, to really focus in on what you're doing and put the rest of it aside. Go back to it later. Write it down if it makes you, if it relieves your mind, if your able to just sort of dump it all on paper, prioritize it, and deal with it later, you'll feel so much better and you'll really be far more productive.
