Are you married to your job … or going through the motions? If you live to work, you may be crossing that fine line between being engaged and being consumed by work. When passion becomes preoccupation — when a disproportionate amount of your time, thoughts and energy are devoted to your career — your work-life balance can be threatened. On the flip side, when you work to live, you miss out on the rich sense of fulfillment that a meaningful career can elicit. If you work to live, you might envy people who truly enjoy their career. But the grass isn’t always greener. People who live to work, like Donna, run the risk of relying too heavily on work for gratification — to the exclusion of other sources of joy. Some might call them workaholics, addicted to the adrenaline that comes from solving a crisis, closing a sale or otherwise tying their worth to their work. What’s worse, they’re often on the fast track to burnout. The capacity to understand the long-term implications of over-eng...
