From the song 'Working Day And Night' by Michael Jackson:

Ooh My Honey
You Got Me Workin' Day And Night,
Ooh My Sugar
You Got Me Workin' Day And Night,

Scratch My Shoulder
It's Aching, Make It Feel Alright,
When This Is Over
Lovin' You Will Be So Right.

https://youtu.be/JTC1V4OUUl8

"If your interested in balancing work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable."
- Donald Trump

"Don't confuse having a career with having a life."
- Hillary Rodham Clinton

"You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life."
- Heather Schuck, The Working Mom Manifesto 

"Most people chase success at work, thinking that will make them happy. The truth is that happiness at work will make you successful."
- Alexander Kjerulf, Happy Hour is 9 to 5

"The path to happiness at work starts with a simple decision: You must want to be happy. If you don’t commit to being happy at work, you won’t be. You won’t make the choices that make you happy. You won’t take the actions needed to get there. You won’t change the things that need to change."
- Alexander Kjerulf, Happy Hour is 9 to 5

"There is no work-life balance. We have one life. What's most important is that you be awake for it."
- Janice Marturano

"There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life."
- Alain De Botton

#MainMessageForToday
Technology has made it easy to extend work hours so many people struggle with work-life balance.
How do you divide the time between your work and personal life?

From the song 'Too Much Of A Good Thing' by Alan Jackson:

Smiles in the morning as warm as sunshine,
Kisses when I lay down at night,
And 2 loving arms to console me,
I should be scared, it's so right.

But, too much of a good thing is a good thing,
Feelings like this can't be wrong,
And, too much of a good thing is a good thing,
And we've got a good thing going on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VezWYCXVXAE

"Balance is the key to success in all things. Do not neglect your mind, body or spirit. Invest time and energy in all of them equally – it will be the best investment you ever make, not just for your life but for whatever is to follow."
- Tanya Wheway

"Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments."
- Plato

"I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself."
- Giacomo Casanova

"Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use."
- Peter Latham

"I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater. Some parents have entirely prohibited their children from tasting intoxicating liquors; but a parent’s authority cannot last for ever; children are naturally prone to hanker after forbidden things; and a child, in such a case, would be likely to have a strong curiosity to taste, and try the effect of what has been so lauded and enjoyed by others, so strictly forbidden to himself – which curiosity would generally be gratified on the first convenient opportunity; and the restraint once broken, serious consequences might ensue."
- Anne Brontë

"There are those people who can eat one piece of chocolate, one piece of cake, drink one glass of wine. There are even people who smoke one or two cigarettes a week. And then there are people for whom one of anything is not even an option."
- Abigail Thomas, Thinking About Memoir 

"Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise."
- Holy Bible (ESV), Proverbs 20:1

"It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken." 
- Aristotle

#MainMessageForToday
Balance is the key to success in many areas.

From the song 'Too Much' by Spice Girls:

Too much of something is bad enough,
But something's coming over me to make me wonder.
Too much of nothing is just as tough,
I need to know the way to feel to keep me satisfied.
Too much of nothing so why don't we give it a try,
Too much of something we're gonna be living a lie,
Too much of nothing so why don't we give it a try,
Too much of something we're gonna be living a lie.

https://youtu.be/_4VoZ6afztc

"Every ambitious person is a captive and every covetous one a pauper."
- Arab proverb

"Covetous people are fools, miserable wretches, buzzards, madmen who live by themselves, in perpetual slavery, fear, suspicion, sorrow, discontent, with more of gall than honey in their enjoyments; who are rather possessed by their money than possessors of it."
- Robert Burton

"There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment."
- Mark Twain

"The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them."
- Tillotson

"It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape or grain; but something to be left for the poor.  For covetousness is never to be satisfied; the more it has, the more it wants.  Such insatiable ones injure themselves, and transform God's blessings into evil."
- Martin Luther

"And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth."
- Holy Bible King James Version (KJV), Luke 12:15 

"Covetousness, by a greediness of getting more, deprives itself of the true end of getting; it loses the enjoyment of what it has got."
- Sprat

#MainMessageForToday
He who has little and is always content is happier than he who is always coveting though he has so much.

Is #ambition #covetousness?.....

"I want it all,
A little bit is never enough!"
- From the song 'I Want It All', High School Musical 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5xxSRvl5VM

"To go too far is as bad as to fall short."
- Confucius

"I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time."
- Oprah Winfrey

"Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all."
- Rick Aster, Fear of Nothing

"Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it's to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential-as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.
You'll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you're doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you'll hear about them."
- Bill Watterson, http://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0025-watterson.htm

"Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness."
- Christopher Marlowe

"The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess."
- Menander

"How many ills, how many infirmities, does man owe to his excesses, his ambition – in a word, to the indulgence of his various passions! He who should live soberly in all respects, who should never run into excesses of any kind, who should be always simple in his tastes, modest in his desires, would escape a large proportion of the tribulations of human life. It is the same with regard to spirit-life..."
- Allan Kardec, The Spirits' Book

#MainMessageForToday
Enough is as good as a feast. - English Proverb

Too much pace, similar to #excess........

From the song 'Cool Down the Pace' by Gregory Isaacs:

Cool down the pace for me little woman,
You're coming in to fast for me.
Cool down the pace for me little woman,
That's not how it should be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-XmNm0inyM

"The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Next to love, balance is the most important thing."
- John Wooden

"Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess."
- Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law

"I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad."
- Terence

"This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess."
- Terence

"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony."
- Thomas Merton

"Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy."
- Voltaire

#MainMessageForToday
Just about anything taken to excess is bad. A good thing can be destructive if taken to excess.

"All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much." 
- George Harrison

"Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Theme for the week 7/5 - 7/11: #Moderation.