Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to talk about how to stop being a workaholic. I suppose I should start with a confession which is that I'm a bit of a workaholic and that's something that I've been working on in myself lately, because it's a problem.

Workaholic is a problem.

Have you ever stopped to notice that there's something deeply wrong going on inside of you if you're a workaholic?

Well, whether you realize it or not, there is. And what I want to do in this episode is to help you to gain some deep insight

into where your workaholeism is stemming from. What's the root of it?

And it turns out that the root can be very, very deep.

Also very fascinating, very eye opening.

And the cool part is that once you get a handle on it,

then it can open up a whole new world and a whole new life for you,

a whole new chapter in your life.

So this can be powerful.

But first, how do we tell if you're a workaholic?

Well, here's some basic guidelines that I just kind of drew up for myself.

If you work over eight hours a day and over 40 hours a week,

then you just might be a workaholic.

If you take your work very personally to the point where it can make you sad or angry at what's going on with your work,

you might be a workaholic. If you work weekends, you might be a workaholic. If you work

holidays, you might be a workaholic, and if you don't take vacations, you might be a workaholic.

And there's a whole slew of problems with this, but as Rheholics were very good at disguising what these problems are.

So let's mean, let me just bring a few of them to light for you.

The first most obvious problem is that you're agitated and that basically you create needless suffering for yourself on a day-to-day basis with your work.

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