How do you keep a balance between working, training, health and family?

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Published on 2008-09-29T01:26:41Z Indexed on 2010/04/13 14:53 UTC
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One trend I see in the awesome developers I've met, is that they devote inordinate amounts of time to coding at the expense of (usually) their health. Personally, I also find it hard to motivate myself to keep healthy.

Every now and again, I meet a fantastic coder who has it clocked; they are up to date with the latest dev news, have time to read about good programming practices, and to finish it off, have happy wives/husbands and families.

How do you guys/gals manage it in the short 24 hours a day that we all have?

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