For 37 years, Bill Watts was a Methodist pastor. Now he tends to a different flock. As employee relations manager for the SH Enterprises family of realty-related companies in Gulf Shores, Alabama, Watts preaches about the importance of balancing work and family life to SH’s 250 full-time and 250-300 seasonal employees. Taking time to care for our own loved ones — and ourselves — is vital to finding happiness at work, he says. “Simply put,” said 68-year-old Watts, who preached at eight different churches over his career, “we’re not going to be happy or successful in our work lives if our home lives are not happy. It is especially important to plan time to be with family, not just spend time with them when we have a few minutes.” The former parson, who attended pastoral college at the Candler School of Theology on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta for a few weeks every summer for 10 years, says he himself learned that lesson the hard way. Because he was …
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