1st of all, the nice thing about realizing your problem is workaholism, that’s kind of cool… because for me it revolves around a passion (or need?) for creative problem solving… maybe it’s control issues, not wanting to be wrong… who knows (or cares)?   So… when that’s the problem, I get to use it against itself– I’m working on finding solutions, others, support, etc… it’s the good ol’ fashion research.  The best site I’ve found is Workaholics Anonymous which is actually at workaholics-anonymous.org  … it took some work to find, as there are many articles that use the term workaholics anonymous in their headlines… but do not actually talk about it.  Cnn / cnet / money / jobs — all these .com’s wrote articles about the growing trend in self-employed peeps who have blackberry addictions, and need to put in more hours.  So.. now you have the link.  I got a 20 out of 20 on their checklist.  I’ll go to a meeting on Wednesday.  I don’t really care about anonymity…. everyone already knows I work all the time.  But… I am taking immediate steps that I’m thrilled about.  Other than deciding to go Wednesday, I changed my cell phone greeting to announce that it is my personal line, and my land line that it is a business line, and both announce that business calls will be answered during NORMAL business hours.  That was a huge step.  I’m consolidating my business into things that take up less time… trying to force delegation of work instead of doing it all.  Trying to have “regular” sleeping hours, *as if* I had a day job.  I’m making sure to be more social with the neighbors, instead of blowing ‘em all off “I’m working!”  I think I’ll watch some tv tonight… that should be exciting.  I’ll try to monitor how much guilt I feel about watching tv when I know what projects are still incomplete.  I’m listening to other’s stories from WorkaholicsAnonymous.  I laid out on a raft in the pool today, followed by reading my work-based reading outside… great tan now And…. I’m trying to come up with things I can do instead of working – in the evenings -  so far I’ve come up with clean my place, watch tv, hang out with people, paint, study guitar, study piano, take up Capoeira again, Toastmasters, and writing my CouchSurfing book… but.. that last one might be considered work.  Aren’t they all work? Piano, guitar, Capoeira- they all require a lot of consistent dedication.

Oh well.. I’m feeling pretty good about the future   I also found this great (and fairly accurate) skit about the topic.  Self-depricating humor has never been an issue with me-

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