Personal vs Career

As I sit around this afternoon I am tossing thoughts between work and personal. We have a new baby coming to join us within weeks, this is #2, also a boy. I can't help but feel completely excited. However, I have spent the last several years building a real estate career based on commercial property investments and managment. I have now been in commercial real estate for almost 6 years, I have just now decided to persue my CCIM designation (currently completed 101 and 102), I am a candidate for the SEC, and will take my broker's test within weeks. The next several months should be interesting as we explore the balance between wanting to spend every second with family and at the same time trying to acomplish 60+ hour weeks of work that will indeed begin to pile up. The bottom line is that I will achieve both but how I do this and still find time to sleep will be the challenge. I plan on being there for my family every step of the way and providing for them the best I can, I also do the same for each and every client I represent through selling, buying, or managing. I believe it is important to take care of all of my clients as though they were family (in many cases we feel that way). I hope everyone can understand the difficult times ahead as we work through a tough economy and my own personal sleepless nights. I would just like to add that I will never let my family or my clients down, I will always do my best to find time to take care of both. I will be adding several items to this in the coming months to help anyone who views this understand how I have worked through the tough times and treated everyone with the respect and attention they deserve. Hopefully I can help others who run into these situations in life.