Motif/v(e/ation)

• Do it when you feel like doing it.
• Don't feel (too) guilty when you don't feel like doing it.
• Being, "on vacation" is a wonderful state of mind, the equivalent in value to working at a discipline you love, when satisfaction follows activity.
• Working at a discipline you hate sucks, unless it's discipline itself you're into, in which case it's more a kind of love/hate relationship.
• I no longer have to work for a living, I've wisely invested enough of the beaucoup money I've made to be free of that lifestyle. Thus, I'm no longer into discipline. Sorry, S&M crowd. I really do understand, but I'm no longer interested.
• One of the places I used to work at was a closet S&M organization. (Corporate psychotherapy is a discipline ripe for development.)
• 2, 3, or 4 (or even 5 or 6) weeks of paid vacation a year, 7, 8, 9, 10 (or even 13 or 14) paid holidays, 3 (or even 5) paid personal days, and any (un)reasonable number of paid sick days is an abysmal degradation of the human spirit, which needs to be free, to respond to its needs in its own time. We have become sooooo thankful for and appreciative of the meager time we have for ourselves that we think we are doing very well. Three months paid time off per year is the absolute minimum we require in order to remain healthy. Six months is an excellent benefit. Balance is the key here: work/play/sleep.
• If you're lucky enough (so few of us are) to have a job you can play at, then the above item may be disregarded. Go ahead then and work your life away. Otherwise, take more time off. Tell your boss I said it was okay. Life is short.
• Be neither a capitalist nor a communist. Survive and prosper, but eschew both moneymaking and communal rites done for their own sake.
• Spend some time alone, but not too much. But be careful. We are conditioned from birth to think too little is too much. 50/50 is a good working rule-of-thumb re any activity. Remember: balance. Unless you are one of the lucky few who have remained in touch or have re-connected full-time with the central core of existence, stay away from people a part of the time. They suck you in and suck out your vital energy. (Take great care that you are not one of these people.)

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