Personal reflection by Louis Massaro describing a wake-up about work-life balance: he recounts a history of excessive work leading to illness, realizing that financial success and providing for family did not compensate for lack of quality of life, and beginning to cultivate enjoyable experiences and free time.
Started to craft and cultivate some experiences in my life, some fun, some free time, because there was nothing. I used to work and work and work and work and work until I got sick. Literally. I'd catch a cold or something and I'd be like, oh, three days to lay up. And I almost looked forward to those days, right? I have to lay in bed and watch the movies and just chill. I'm sick, gotta recover. Then I'm back up and I'm on the move again. No real quality of life. But it started to build and then it just. At some point, it just started to click, like, wow, this is the stuff right here. Everything with business was there. I'd already been successful. I hadn't had that big challenge yet in front of me of going through the recession and having to kind of earn those stripes and get that credibility and build those capabilities. But to make all this money, more than I ever thought that I would possibly make, retire my mother, take care of the people around me and then feel that way wasn't acceptable to me.
