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advice from an old mentor...

Take care of:

1 - Your health

2 - Your family / relationship with God

3 - Your work

The advice was given to me at a time when I was working 100 hour weeks. I was told that even a 40 hour work week is unacceptable if I don't take care of items 1 and 2 ahead of my work. As with most quality advice, it took years to sink in.

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Your mentor really put your health above your relationship with God? I take it Job went about things the wrong way?

The ordering of health/family/God is certainly debatable. This was his ordering and I don't always do it that way, but the point that your work can't be sustainable or offer your life much value without the right priorities is the key. I've been fortunate to have had quite a few great mentors in my life.

Makes sense. Unless your work is a "higher calling," health and family should be above it.

Not everyone values their relationship with God as much as you appear to. It's called choice.

Edit: I see I've missed the point. The important part of the order is where work is placed on it, not where religion is placed. My bad.

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