Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski was successful enough by all standards winning two college basketball championships and going to the big dance in four of the previous five years.

He was burned out.  Didn’t give himself time to recover from painful back surgery. He just seemed to keep doing it all by himself.

Until Coach K decided to take a full year off from coaching passing the responsibilities to his staff.  Before he walked away, Coach K ran everything himself.  In the year off, he stayed away from the team.  When he returned, he became the king of delegation.

Recently Coach K won his 1,000^th game – without the games not played in the year he took off.

He learned two key lessons.

One, learn to delegate like a Fortune 500 CEO.

Two, pick and choose how to spend the time in his day.

Life is a marathon not a sprint so it is understandable how we can burn ourselves out pushing too hard for too long.

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