• My Style
May 23, 2012 8:30 AM EDT
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My Style: Rachel Pally Shows Us Around Her Los Feliz Digs
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It seems like you’ve been able to balance your career and personal life really well. How do you juggle it all?
"I used to have a hard time keeping a balance. I worked constantly. I would wake up in the middle of the night for a drink of water and turn on my computer. I would work late nights and through the weekend. But I was unhappy and wasn’t necessarily working smart. Now, unless there is some kind of emergency going on, I only work during work hours. I don’t work on vacations. I don’t work on weekends. My feeling is that it's more important that I like my life than I respond this instant to an email that can wait until Monday. Once I stopped responding to work emails over the weekends, people stopped emailing me over the weekends! If you make yourself available all the time, you will never get a break! I choose to work really hard when I’m at work, and play when I’m not. It's so important to set boundaries, otherwise you will go crazy! Work can’t be your whole life. What’s the point of working towards success if you never take any time to enjoy it?"

Photographed by Hailley Howard