Some time ago, I posted about working a 70-hour work week for an arbitrary compensation amount. My point was not to piss off my boss (which it did), but to point out the fact that working that much is not healthy. "Died of Stress" is not something that I want on my tombstone.

So here's some info that I got from Tim Ferriss' web site. Tim is the author of "The Four Hour Workweek and is a person that I admire because he is living life on his terms.

From Tim's blog:

If you know someone who is a workaholic in denial, or who thinks an 80-hour workweek is a good way to spend their limited time on this planet, go for a lifestyle intervention and send them the LQ calculator. It might just wake them up faster than a triple-espresso frapuccino.

Enter the new world of the Lifestyle Quotient (LQ). If you want to see the real facts of your current work-life (im)balance, check out the world’s first LQ calculator here http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/lifestyle-quotient/. The results will probably shock you.

What is your LQ?
What do you guesstimate your boss’s LQ to be?
What about your father or mother’s LQ compared to your own?

The point is folks, there is life outside of the Inbox. My LQ? A shocking 2.19%. I spend 344 hours working for one day of vacation. That's 14.33 days!

So as the "stress twitch" in my eye kicks in I'm getting on with a new life. Go discover yours. I'm on my way now, hope to meet you down the road.