Steps to Success Balance Your Life & Work

But I think that there are people who are going to be interested in that and people who arenБЂ™t. Seibel: Is there anything I havenБЂ™t asked about that you thought I might? Ingalls: Often, reading about famous people, the side of it that IБЂ™m interested in is, how do they make their life work? All the things that werenБЂ™t their passion, and how did they deal with that, and with their family, and with their finances, and balancing that. Or did they just hole up and say, БЂњTo hell with everything else,БЂ«and let it just come crumbling down until they had their work done? Seibel: Do you feel like there were times in your life where your passion for programming ran amok to the detriment of other parts of your life? Ingalls: Yeah, there are times when itБЂ™s been hard on others because IБЂ™m focused and need to stay focused. ItБЂ™s a risk with anybody whoБЂ™s got a passion for what theyБЂ™re doing. I think either you learn to moderate it somewhat or the other thing you do is communicate it so that everybody around you knows that youБЂ™re dealing with this thing, and youБЂ™ll probably be done in a week, but until then DaddyБЂ™s somewhat inaccessible ...»