On work-life balance some good advice I read
Stop treating your day as work plus a little stuff around the edges, instead-
Divide your day into three parts where work constitutes
The second part of the day, and rarely contributes
To the morning and the evening- the other two parts of the day
You can prevent work from becoming all-consuming this way
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Sounds like good advice, but even if I break
My day into three parts, work is the part that takes
Ninety percent of the entire aliquot of energy that I possess
By the time work ends I am completely exhausted, I confess
To find the motivation to do something else appears
Nearly impossible- this reframing does not work for me, I fear
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As I read further, the article addressed this specific issue
It reminded the reader that even when we are tired, hard things all of us do
Despite being tired, the call of duty we do not ignore
But when it comes to doing something exclusively for ourselves, we can do it no more
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So the reframe is to designate the third part of the day
As the part that fills your cup, and protect it fiercely in every way
