🐠 in leadership positions/managers and up- How do you make time to actively pursue your hobbies. I feel like I don’t have enough time if I’m constantly putting in long hours to make progress..

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You have to prioritize them.

It sometimes sucks waking up early, but I got in the habit of working out at 5am.

If I was trying to figure out a dish or something cooking related, I’d stay at the Residence Inn to make dinner.

The travel can make things challenging so unfortunately I also had to adjust the focus of some of the things I liked to do.

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You have to travel at Amazon?

Cont.. in my career (which I also like)

Causality between long hours and career progress is a myth.

I believe its true if you are still working your way up to a leadership position. And also once you are in a leadership position, your responsibilities increase 10x. Hence the question

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