Perhaps the job you’re good at is not the one that is healthiest for you.

If you are always thinking about your work, don’t leave barriers between home and work life, are always working on the next project and get obsessed by the minutiae, then that is not healthy. This is especially true for those of us working from home more these days, or with portfolio careers.

But doing that makes you good at your job, yes? You have satisfied clients, your colleagues respect you, you are successful in almost every respect.

Now look inside yourself.

Do you define yourself by your work? If you were in a coffee shop and someone asks what you do, how do you reply? Do you invest too much of yourself in things and get emotionally impacted when other, fallible humans screw up?

That is not a healthy relationship with your work.

The first step is always recognition. And once you have acknowledged it, then you can make steps to create the change.

Work is important. It defines us, puts a roof over our heads, food on the table and allows us to live better. But it isn’t everything.

Create space, be able to walk away.