I'm a workaholic. This is how I'm trying to reclaim my well-being.

"That idea of being constantly productive and busy, of doing something for the sake of accomplishing it rather than just being."As I hear myself in Clark's description, she delivers another blow: "Workaholism does not lead to more productivity or higher work performance."Hearing that was enough to convince me that I desperately needed to change my ways, but a stumbling block I was struggling with is that I have to work. "I was like an alcoholic conveniently employed as a wine expert," he writes.This was the anecdote that sprung to mind when Clark told me that sometimes a change of job, or even career, is what it takes to overcome workaholism.Not ready to go to the extreme of actually quitting my job, I sought the advice of Madeleine Dore, the author of "I Didn't Do the Thing Today," a new book exploring how to let go of the guilt and anxiety of a never-ending to-do list.She told me that it's not the notion of productivity that's the problem, it's the culture surrounding it. "If you recognize that you have a productivity problem or workaholism, a year of trying to change might not be enough," she said.