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Work/Life Balance Scales – Are You and Your Scales Out of Whack?
As we close the blinds and lock up shop for 2009, many of us become obsessed with one New Years Resolution in particular – and that’s to lose weight.

How much Home Office Tax Dedcution can I Take?

Home Office deduction can probably save you thousands in expenses as well as Taxes. As more and more professionals and small business owners recognize the need to cut down on office expenses and have a better work life balance and with the growing square footage of American Homes in the past decade, it makes sense to use part of your home as an office. Not only can you save thousands on office expenses, you may also be able to reduce your taxes. IRS code provides a special tax deduction for Business use of your Home. You can deduct insurance, utilities, rent or mortgage expense as part of the Home Office dedcution. However there are specific guidelines and limits to the extent of how much you can deduct.

Effectiveness of Coaching in Work Life Balance
Work-life balance: why such a hot topic? How coaching can help. Some guidelines in the coaching relationship. How to select a coach.

How to Manage Stress in a Fast-Paced Culture
If you want to achieve more success and fulfillment, this article offers insight into the role that stress plays in your life and practical tips on how to manage that stress.

How to Make Important Life Changes
If you're thinking about making a big change in your life - for example a new career, more time with family, a healthier lifestyle, etc. - this article will help you break through barriers and create your own action plan. "If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies." - Author Unknown

Learn to Organize - Learn to Live
Why is it that "9:00 to 5:00", regular vacations, playing with the kids, reading for enjoyment and the likes are no longer in our vocabulary? Why is it that more often than not it seems like it's all work and no life? Is it just the sign of the times or could our problems, possibly, be self-inflicted?

Coaching Gen Y? Don’t be like the Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Are you a wolf - trying to coach your staff to get them to do what you want them to do? Or are you genuinely interested in their development? You can't fool Gen Y.Here are some tips to help you be authentic in your coaching.

Work and Life Balance
I often hear people complaining that they their workload is too great, their working hours too long and they don’t have sufficient time to do things like go to the gym, spend precious time with family or meet up for dinner with friends. Achieving work life balance can often be such a simple goal to achieve, but why does it come so easy to some people and yet cause such difficulty to others?

A Healthier Approach To Work Life Balance

Why is it that so many people in there thirties and forties are so stretched to the limit that their bodies and minds are stretched close to breaking point? It just seems that we have got the whole work life balance out of sync. For some reason we have designed it so that your career obligations (and time required at work) peak during the most important time of your young families life. Then when your children are grown up and have left the house you are then encouraged to reduce your workload and retire. It's time for a new approach to a healthy Work Life Balance... A truly healthy work life balance isn't just an allocation of time. A healthy work life balance also involves an allocation of your energy to devote to your work and to other interests outside of work.

Put Life Into Your Work And Put Work Into Your Life

We've all heard different work life balance experts and commentators regurgitate the same old clichéd advice, "You should work to live and not live to work." But when you think about it would have to be one of the more ridiculous statements bandied about the public arena. Do these supposed work life balance experts that parrot this idealistic mantra belief that the occupation that you choose should be a sidelight in your life? Is your work really some evil dastardly villain that steals all your time and the possibility of any joy or fulfillment outside its walls? Tt's time to bring some balance to the whole work life balance debate...

Goal Setting With Work Life Balance And Purpose
Do you sometimes live by the catchphrase, "I don't know what I want but I know that it's not this"? Sometimes the "thrill of the deal" just isn't enough to inspire you. Follow these steps to regain some passion, purpose and work life balance in your life.

Work Life Balance: The Key To A Sustainable Business and A Sustainable Life

During these times of unprecedented economic turmoil the pressure on businesses to survive is immense. The real question to ask is how sustainable is your business? Or another way of saying it is, "Does your business/work environment have a healthy work life balance?" A healthy work life balance is a lifestyle where your habits and actions result in the sustainable growth and development of your health, wealth, business/career, family relationships, social relationships and fulfilment and enjoyment of your life. When your habits and actions at work or at home do not have a work life balance then something in your life will give and will break down.

Improve Your Work Life Balance By Improving Your Work Wife Balance
Too many people with thriving business careers are often faced with the choice of career or relationships.If you have a time-consuming job, how can you maintain a successful career and maintain close loving relationships with your partner and family? Follow these two small steps that make giant leaps towards a better work wife balance. As they say, " Happy wife. Happy life."

Tune Out, Turn It Off

If you find yourself constantly checking your emails and checking your voicemail even on vacation, you may be addicted to techology. And as a result, your life may be very out of balance. If balance is what you seek, learn some simple ideas about controlling your email addiction to give you more time to live the rest of your life. One size does not fit all. That's the case when it comes to technology in life as well. But tuning out and turing it off may not in fact be the end of the world. Your business may not suffer as a result of self-imposed limitations. Your life if fact may prosper. Less work. More play. You don't have to check email every minute of every day!

No Internet Monday...An Unbalanced Start to the Work Week

We take our internet service for granted. It's our communication link to the world. And yet when the technology gets the better of us, we are lost, confused and scattered. For this to happen on a Monday morning only means that the work week gets off to an truely unbalanced start. Handling this tech "fault line" can either set you off...or you can take the high road, roll with the punches and know that tomorrow will be another day....one where the internet connection might actually work! Debbie Lessin, CPA and self-proclaimed Balance Lady recently had such a Monday. Debbie always tries to roll with the punches, remembering of course that in the scheme of things, it's really just the internet!

Effective Time Management Strategies
Effective time management is a skill or maybe an art. And from experience I know that it takes discipline, effort and commitment to make it work for you. It helps to know yourself. Are you a person that thrives under pressure or does a lot of pressure paralyze you?

How to Balance Work and Life
Do you need more balance in your life? Is your work life taking over everything in sight? We can restore the balance between work and life and live happier lives by doing some basic things. Learn practical ways to relax more and recharge your batteries.

My Work is Play to Me
Amy said a really nice thing to me the other day. We were talking and she said “One of the things I really admire about you is that your work is play to you.”

So I Just Wasted 60 Minutes of System Time
This rarely happens to me so when it does, I notice it. And - in my effort to write some of my tricks about work-life balance, I thought I'd call this one out, especially since it was totally my fault.

Feld-Weiser One-on-One: Feld on Work-Life Balance
On Wednesday, June 10th, 6:00-7:00pm in the Wittemyer Courtroom, Wolf Law Building at CU Boulder I'm doing an interview with Phil Weiser titled Feld on Work-Life Balance. I've written extensively about Work-Life Balance on this blog and have a wide range of opinions and perspectives on it. Phil's intro the event sets it up nicely.

7 Steps Towards Turning Work/Life Pain into Pleasure
Its hard to enjoy life when you are stressed to the eyeballs by a poor work/life mix. Here are seven practical steps you can taking to start turning things around and enjoy getting back in control of your life, beginning from today.

Living in a stressful world
If you are not suffering some sort of stress you will be in a minority because most people today are stressed about something.

Making Brilliant Entrepreneurial Choices without Getting Distracted
Balancing work and life. There comes a time in every entrepreneur's life when he has to weigh the balance between being flexible enough to take on new opportunities and steady enough to stick to his plan.

Breaking Through the Frustration of An Entrepreneurs Addiction to Work
Giving up is not an option for an addicted entrepreneur. Many entrepreneurs have succumbed to the temptation, however. Ancient wisdom tells us that anxiety is fear of the future and frustration is actually a good emotion. Frustration in thought is merely indecision. Should I do this or do that? Should money be my end goal or something more spiritual?

Workforce Sustainability...How Boosting Employee Health and Work Life Balance is an Effective and Profitable Business Strategy
Sustainability seems to be a real buzz word at the moment. Businesses are seeing the benefits of wiser, more energy-efficient use of our resources combined with recycling and other greener initiatives. But business is yet to really apply this sustainability concept to its most valuable resource...its workforce.

Less Working Hours Do Not Improve Aussie Work Life Balance
Its time for us to stop blaming long work hours as the cause for our poor work life balance. Discover the studies that dispel this myth and learn the suprising approach to improving your work life balance that also saves you time...

Trust is a two-way street
Giving employees a little flexibility and trusting them to do their hours can reap companies a lot of benefits, says Rachel Fellows, UK Corporate Communications Manager at Kellogg's.

Powerful Coaching Distinction: Working In Vs. Working On Your Life

Having been a professional coach for over 16 years, and having been in over a dozen coaching relationships as a client during that time, I’ve had the opportunity to examine what makes coaching so powerful and effective. It’s my personal view that one of the most beneficial tools that can enhance a client’s life is coaching distinctions. You can think of a coaching distinction like a lens through which you look at life, and in the process life shows up differently. For example, when my mechanic, Dale, looks under the hood of my car he sees a whole different world than I do. I see mostly dirt and oil and maybe the oil dip stick and radiator cap. But because Dale has many more ‘engine distinctions’ he’s the one I’m going to call on if my car won’t start in the morning. In short, the more distinctions we have AND USE, the more powerful...

Women Entrepreneurs: Tips for a Prosperous (and Sane!) Business

While studies show that both men and women are interested in financial freedom, women are more likely than men to cite “greater work-life balance” as an additional motivating factor in starting a business. A new study from Jane Out of the Box, an authority on women entrepreneurs, reveals a significant segment of women in business who’ve achieved their dreams of financial success, but who tend to be overwhelmed by the day-to-day demands of their business. This article provides important “Do’s” and “Don’ts” for duplicating the prosperity of the market segment known as “Go Jane Go”-while creating better balance in life.

Attracting the Next Generation of Workers

Facing the expected retirement of millions of baby boomers and a smaller pool of Generation X employees to replace them, managers will need the help of another group of professionals: Generation Y. Also known as Millennials, this group consists of more than 80 million individuals born approximately between 1979 and 1999. Millennials are the workforce of tomorrow, and according to a survey conducted by Robert Half International with CareerBuilder.com, hiring managers consider this generation the hardest to recruit and retain.

Promote Work-Life Balance to Retain and Motivate Employees

As a manager, you may cringe when you hear the phrase "Work-Life Balance," which is viewed by many employers as a code phrase for "work less." But is the trend toward employees demanding more balance between their careers and their other obligations and interests entirely negative for employers? Viewed from a positive perspective, Work-Life Balance can be one of your best tools to retain and motivate your employees.

Beyond the Glass Ceiling: 7 Habits of Highly Successful Female Entrepreneurs
US businesses owned by women are growing at a phenomenal rate. But women in business tend to face different challenges than their male counterparts, and are far less likely to reach the million dollar mark. Based on a study of over 750 women in business, this article details some of the habits of highly successful female entrepreneurs—and how to emulate their secrets for success.

5 Good Reasons to Not Go to a Seminar
There's a plethora of great seminars out there. How do you decide if you should sign-up? Here's 5 ways to help you make the best decision.

Don't listen to the non-believers: Find out things for yourself!

Skeptics and non-believers are everywhere. They cast doubt on the existence of things that turn out to be real good. Studies show that the beliefs of non-believers are in fact based not on evidence and logic but mostly on emotion that may be formed by a negative experience. For example, when people fall prey to Internet scams and pyramid schemes, they begin to be prejudiced against online marketing and look at it as evil. The truth is there is a good and bad side to every human enterprise. The few bad eggs in network marketing are simply not enough to spoil the whole basket.

Why You Too Should Set Up a Network Marketing Business
Anyone who slaves for an employer dreams of becoming his own boss someday, free with his time while making good money. In employment, you create wealth only for the person you're working for, never for yourself. Worse, the reward for your labors is stuck in one place and work-life balance is impossible to achieve.

Effective Leadership – the key to staff retention

The current economic climate dictates that it is now an employers market, however what will happen when the economic crisis we currently find ourselves in subsides? Are you confident that your talented employees will remain with your organisation? Or do you believe you need to act now to ensure your talent is retained in the future? Over the next few weeks we will look at strategies for ensuring your key talent are engaged, motivated and ultimately committed to your organisation and its objectives, regardless of how green the grass may appear on the other side. This week we will look at the important role leaders play in talent retention...

Remote workers are happier, study says
Employees say that having the option to work from home gives them greater flexibility and satisfaction, according to a new survey.

All Work And No Play Will Take Our Young Guns Away
We all want flexible working arrangements, the five-day work week, sabbaticals and other employee-friendly initiatives. But where does Singapore rank today on work-life balance, especially for the young workforce?

5 ways to pep your teamâ€™s work-life balance
Working on your project when your personal life is not going the way you want it can be a real bummer. On the other hand, having your work-conflicts affect your personal life is as bad. How do you ensure that your team members are balancing their work and life well?

If You Want To Be Happy and Successful Don't Become A Lawyer
No wonder lawyers have the highest incidence of depression among professions and are the most inclined to resort to drugs and alcohol to manage stress. According to this survey, the majority of lawyers have a warped view as to what makes you successful...

How To Dramatically Boost Your Chances Of Having A Successful Career

Many people have had their theories about what attributes are required to have a successful and rewarding career. Some say you need to have a high IQ. Others say that great communication and leadership skills are the keys while others think that coming from a wealthy family gives you a significant advantage in the business world. However a study that followed 268 Harvard students over a 70 year showed that the most significant factor to positively influence your career actually had little to do with what you did at work...

Benefits of Hiring Older Workers
By 2016, it is expected that 1 out of 3 workers will be 50 years of age or older. A labor shortage, as much as 30% by 2030, is expected as boomers continue to mature. Employers who learn how to attract and keep older workers will be able to fill the expected shortfall.

Top 5 Employee Retention Mistakes
Yes, it's an employer's market and there are plenty of capable people looking for work in the current economic climate. But now isn't the time to sit back and assume your employees have no options available to them so you can ignore them or treat them poorly. Many employers are making these costly employee retention mistakes.

How Progressive Companies Can Instil Work Life Balance Within Their Organisation

It just seems that companies have got the whole work life balance out of sync. For some reason you have designed it so that your career obligations (and time required at work) peak during the most important time of your young families life. Then when your children are grown up and have left the house you are then encouraged to reduce your workload and retire.Creating a healthier work life balance in the future,a fundamental shift in how you employ and assign roles and responsibilities in your organization will be required.

What Part of Your Health Has the Biggest Impact On Your Quality Of Life

We all hear debates about the relevance of a healthy work life balance. What we are really calling out for is how we can improve our quality of life both at work and at home.But to address this we first need to understand what actually has the greatest impact to our quality of life. An Australian survey shows that a common ailment that we seldom seek professional help for has the biggest adverse influence on our quality of life...

Is There a Cost to Increased Productivity?

It's been proven again and again in staff surveys and research that it's people and they're happiness quotient in the workplace that makes all the difference in their effectiveness. Yet, when it comes to measuring productivity, many organizations don't pay any attention to staff satisfaction and the happiness quotient when they measure and implement changes regarding productivity. Is there a cost to increased productivity?

Get your work-life balance right, and BE happier and healthier.
Are you taking time away from your work to refuel your energy and motivation? Would you like to feel happier,and be healthier?

Have I Got Work-Life Madness
In this short article David Oliver explores the myth of work-life balance. READ ON

Are we limited by our view of success?
Given that women are a vital part of our community on so many levels it got me thinking about the definition of success and how often we find ourselves bound by the very narrow paradigms of others' definitions of success.

Virtually legal
More and more companies are setting up virtually and using technology to cut overheads and offer more flexible working conditions to employees. They include lawyers. Mandy Garner looks at one virtual law firm.

The People Advantage of Being High Tech

It is a strange anomaly that in this modern technological age, many firms remain firmly entrenched in traditional work practices, requiring employees to be present in an office environment where they are ‘visible’ at all times. It is this ‘mistrust’ that many employers hold regarding home-based workers ‘skiving’ if they cannot be seen that holds back many such companies. Such employers miss out on a wealth of knowledge, skills and experience by sticking to these traditions as more and more employees gravitate towards companies that do offer a more beneficial work-life balance. A company that takes advantage of todays technology opens up a whole new avenue of opportunity

Work-life Balance "Putting on the Brakes"
"Putting on the Brakes", first published in Atlantic Business Magazine, advocates that enjoyment-based decisions are the key to work-life balance and provide coaching questions from business coach Karen Kelloway to help get you there.

Top Ten reasons to Play
Play is crucial to creativity, health and well-being. attaining a work/life balance.

What is 'flexible working' doing to our workforce?
The MD muses over the changes for the next few years in our workforce.

Step Away from the Blackberry... and Other Tips for Work-Life Balance

The fact is, it can be very difficult to step away from work for the weekend – or even for the evening – and simply enjoy life. For many people, it feels nearly impossible. Yet without adequate attention to relaxation and rejuvenation, you are on the fast track to burnout. And you simply can’t be successful if you’re burnt. Here are some techniques to help you de-stress, revitalize, and meet with success at work - and in life.

Wanting To Start An Online Business? 6 Important Steps To Get You Started
Due to the need to have a better work-life balance and work from home; or to earn extra cash, a lot of people are now searching for ways to make money online. Today, online businesses are very trendy. Although it is a very appealing concept, a lot of people just do not know where to start.

How to Manage Work/Life Stress
Work life balance is a high priority for everyone but it has become a jargon term that doesn't express what people really want. Now the huge job losses following the financial crisis have meant the idea of work life balance is even less meaningful. People are working even longer hours and prolonged excessive stress. There is, however, a better way.

The Astounding Fifteen – 15 Benefits of Starting Your Own Internet Marketing Business
Internet Marketing is very trendy because it’s an easy way to make money online from home. Whether you want to replace your job’s salary or just want to earn some extra cash, internet marketing is the best way of potentially doing what you enjoy.

Are You Still In the Game
Random Thoughts on Life and Entrepreneurship

Plan your sales cash-crop now!
We reap what we sow and now is the time to sow leads that you can harvest into sales later this year! Read about six sure-fire tips to boost your leads now!

There is No Such Thing as Work Life Balance…
People often complain that their balance is out of whack. When asked to paint a picture of what balance actually looks like, they're often stumped.

Keeping Your Work and Life in Balance

Do you remember when hotel rooms didn't have coffee makers? I recall vividly the first time I walked into a hotel room and discovered a coffee maker. I didn't even drink coffee back then, but I made it, simply because having the coffee pot was so cool. Then people got used to it. Customers got spoiled. They wanted more. The bad news is that it doesn't stop. People will always get used to things the way they are, become more demanding, and wanting more. Such it is with technology and speed. Everyone asks me when things will "return to normal" and "slow down." It won't. The speed at which you're operating is now what's expected. Welcome to the new normal!

Why productivity now matters: 5 talent essentials
Switching on the nightly news recently you may have been struck by images of frazzled-looking brokers on Wall Street attempting to cope with the turbulent markets. You may have also thought, 'I can relate to that'. According to Andrew May, author and stress management expert, Australia is not in danger of becoming a nation of workaholics - we are already there.

Using Total Rewards to Motivate Sales Professionals During Uncertain Economic Times
Confused on what to do in an unsure economy with your sales professionals? Need new ideas to help motivate and retain the best performers? This article will help spark some fresh thoughts for your compensation packages.

Leadership Taboos Exploring Credibility

Leaders are charged with getting things done through others, so we allow them great leeway. We expect our leaders to exert power, manipulate people and engage in political gamesmanship. We acknowledge their luxury perks and generous benefits. After all, most work extremely long hours. When they tout the merits of equality, collaboration and work-life balance, it's often a case of "do as I say, not as I do."

EXTEND YOUR BOUNDARIES
Strong boundaries are an essential element in creating your perfect work-life balance because they help you make peace and space for what you really want in your life. Boundaries are the personal rules you have for what other people may and may not do to or around you.

Key Reasons Why You Should Start Your Own Work At Home Business
An increasing number of people earn money online, working from home. This increasing trend is because there are many benefits that one can enjoy from having an online business and being able to work at home.

Ideas For Employee Retention
Learn the keys to retaining top employees and keeping them happier and more productive.

Sixth Century Wisdom For 21st Century Changemasters
Learn work/life balance lessons from the citizens of the sixth century!

What are the Benefits Of Hiring an Accountability Coach?

Many entrepreneurs have a difficult time managing their time efficiently, unknowingly sabotaging their own success. They often spend months, even years, struggling to discern between the low-priority and high-impact tasks, and where their efforts drive the biggest results. Unfortunately, this type of unawareness can lead to a failed business. How do you prevent self-sabotage of your business? Hire an accountability coach!

If Everyday Women Can Become Empowered Entrepreneurs - So Can You!
Here are three stories about everyday women who became empowered entrepreneurs by letting their desires pull them to greater achievements. These women weren't extraordinary in the common definition, but they allowed their desire to pull them into the unknown. They did not let their fear pull them back; they just continued walking their own path - even against the critics.

4 Reasons Women Entrepreneurs Thrive

Ideals surrounding traditional careers are changing, if not completely dissolving. Today, women are taking control of their destiny and financial wealth by becoming entrepreneurs. With the focus shifting from Corporate America to Entrepreneur America, it is projected that small businesses will lift the U.S. out of the current recession into a new economy supported by entrepreneurs - not corporations. Let's talk about 4 Reasons Women Entrepreneurs will Thrive in the New Economy.

Employee Retention Ideas
What can your small business do to help build a positive culture and create a workplace that attracts and retains employees? Here are a few cool ideas from a company I work with...

CONTROLLING STRESS
* Are you trying too hard to maintain a certain lifestyle? • Are your interests and relationships subordinated to making money? • Have you got a Work – Life Balance • How can you change the situation? What do you need to do to simplify your life?

Slow Down and Live the Life You Love
Tips and tricks for eliminating the unnecessary and making room for time to stop and smell the roses and take back control of your life.

Struggling For A Healthy Balance In Your Life?
Identifying your time-robbers and acknowledging your wasted moments in procrastination are the key steps to getting your life balance back in order.

Your Career Journey
People think of life as a journey with their career just a part of it, like a hobby, little realising that your career journey is not just a part of your life, it is your life. A life shared with family and friendships, but life nonetheless.

How To Increase Your Productivity & Success While Working At Home
Having a work-at-home business is increasingly become popular. Why? People are seeking ways to supplement their income and get a better work-life balance. People today prefer to be their own ‘boss’, and set their own work hours.

Home Based Business – 7 Things To Do Before You Start Your Home Business

These days, a lot of people are searching for a good work-life balance, and having a home based business is the popular option. The limitations of a full time nine to five job, demanding work commitments and commuting to the office have prompted a lot of people to look for an alternative way to earn money and live better lives. Home based businesses are trendy and people are now able to earn good money while working at home.

Is Redundancy a Risk
Companies often re-evaluate their business structure, downsizing and streamlining to make cost savings. The bi-product of these corporate decisions can often unfortunately be redundancies.

Do You Want To Earn Money on the Internet? What You Must Consider First
Not earning enough money from a job; a need to have a better work-life balance and need to spend more time with family are some of the main reasons why many people are looking for opportunities to earn money on the internet.

7 Key Factors That Constitute The Best Home Business
The Internet has brought various opportunities for making money online at home. It is now increasingly common for people to want to start a home based business and earn more money to supplement their main job’s income; or to have a better work-life balance by working from home and spending more time with family.

Young Men Struggle with WorkLife Balance Too

Is it true that women are the only ones in the workplace struggling to maintain a healthy work-life balance? It might seem so because women are traditionally viewed as the caregivers, childminders, and home-makers. Trying to balance all of those roles with the demands of work can truly prove overwhelming, even for the most adept multi-tasker. However, recent research would suggest that men - young men in particular - are also at risk for increased stress due to struggling with work-life balance.

Herd Mentality
Booths featuring products and services related to employee engagement, web-based delivery, global performance, and talent management were overflowing with conference attendees as I walked the trade show at a national conference where I was speaking. Just a few years ago the magnets were initiatives like total quality management, six sigma, diversity, work-life-balance, and customer driven.

Successful Management and Mobile Working
How do you get the best out of your staff using todays technology

Leaving The Office Behind
Can't switch off at the end of the day and leave the office behind? Here are some tips to help you leave your work behind at the end of each work day and begin to enjoy a healthier lifestyle.

Your Work or Your Life
You don't have work-life-balance issues because you have the necessary systems in place.... Right or Wrong?

Work Life Balance
Finding balance between work and your personal life.

Work at Home and Pass Gas On Earth Day April 22
What do telecommuters and bovines have in common? They both pass gas. The difference is, the folks who work from home reduce global warming, while the 4-legged methane factories add to it.

Work Life Balance

Balance is better understood as flow. For instance, I'm building my business right now. It's been my full-time occupation for about six months, and I've spent a disproportionate amount of time during that six months on my business. Since I've made the choice to pass up a variety of recreational activities -- everything from going to the movies to taking a spa vacation with a friend -- it would be easy to conclude that I'm "out of balance."

Enjoying the Balanced Life in Five Easy Steps
What is a balanced life? Isn't it all in the mind? Whether you believe your life is balanced or not, you need to deal with the reality and here is where you start.

Passing Up Good for Great

Work/life balance requires surrender of part of one area - whether it's time spent on work or time spent on personal matters - in favor of the other. But we don't generally like giving up anything we want. We want it all, and we want it all now. Maturity requires us to recognize that perhaps we can have it all (though that too is open to question), but we certainly can't have it all at the same time. The single most useful skill for deciding how to arrange this work/life balance is the ability to pass up good for great. Learning that skill requires that we be able to recognize what's good and what's great, to identify appropriate time frames to help with the good/great evaluation, and to guard our decisions zealously.

Are You a Human Being or a Human Doing?
What's this personal time for? Anything other than work. Remember that gym membership? This is when you can actually use it. Or get a massage, visit a museum, browse the bookstore, or have lunch with a friend. This is [a part of] the time that will make you a well-rounded, interesting human being rather than a worker-bee "human doing."

AN EXAMPLE OF AN ACTION PLAN

Some helpful hints to enhance the possibility of attainment of goals: 1. Commitment and a planned approach to an Action Plan or a Learning Plan is more likely to achieve results. Goals must be written down. 2. Be expressed in the present tense, as if they were real. 3. Clear and sharp focus on the short steps necessary to achieve the results. To illustrate how this might work in real life, let us take an example of an athlete who wants to improve the speed at which he or she runs 1500m. Here is an example what An Action Plan to achieve the goal might look like:

Value your time as you can bet your customer’s won’t

Owning your own small business isn’t just a normal job, its 15 jobs or more all at once. You have to be your own PR specialist, marketing manager, bookkeeper, and receptionist in addition to the overseeing the primary product or service of your business – be it website design, marketing consulting, or pottery production. It is highly likely that you work 16 hours a day and only have time for the bare necessities. Maybe you even miss dinner every other day and hardly have time for your family.

Al Gores’ Approach to Work-Life Balance

In Al Gore’s documentary on global warming (An Inconvenient Truth), he makes reference to a picture used by the Bush administration to illustrate the conflict between money and environment. In the picture, there is a scale: on one side of the scale, there is a pile of gold bars, on the other the earth. As Al Gore somewhat wryly pointed out…gold is not much use to you if you have no earth. I must say the same thought strikes me when I read about “work-life balance.”

Now You Can Have More Confidence - Interview With TVs Confidence Coach
Here is an interview with Peter Nicholas. Peter has a background in psychology and is one of the UK's leading confidence coaches. He teaches at the Bristol Old Vic, as well as regularly featuring in television programmes such as Faking It and Would Like To Meet.

Work Enjoyment Helps Employee Retention.

Employee retention is about the nature of the work itself and the work environment/culture. What can you do? Firstly, you have to get the basics right - good pay, appropriate conditions, etc. Secondly, you have to remove the fear of uncertainty - employees should feel safe and secure in their employment. They should not be concerned about your employment practices. They should not picture you 'with a whip'. Thirdly, you have to work hard to create and maintain a good work culture and climate.

Training Managers to Meet Business Goals Using Work-Life Strategies

Training managers to use work-life tools is essential in creating a supportive culture and ensuring that everyone at the manager level (and, thus, those they supervise) are on the same page. When managers apply work-life programs as direct business solutions to the common issues employees face everyday, they discover that they can reduce absenteeism, turnover, and realign their teams, which is particularly beneficial when it comes to talent and performance management. Instead of using traditional training programs for managers, the authors recommend a tool that they have created—the Manager’s Solution Forum. This accelerated learning approach engages participants from beginning to end which results in an increased level of understanding and utilization of work-life as a business strategy.

Your Perfect Job - Five Tips to Land a Job That's a Right Fit
Considering a new job? Here are five tips to help you decide if the job is a perfect fit for you.

How to Create Your Personal Work Life Balance Plan
Creating a Work Life Balance Plan is not hard but there are some crucial issues to explore. In essence, you need to 'Plan your work and plan your play'. You may also need to deal with conflicting demands on your time and energy. Here is how to get started.

Work-Life Balance Tips for Busy People - your starting point
This article offers compelling reasons why work-life balance is crucial for busy people and the dangers faced if this issue is ignored. The article will serve as a starting point and contains a real life story (perhaps similar to yours), statistics from the USA to Australia and finishes with a relevant and personal question.

Achieving Work Life Balance Doesnt Have to be Hard
Although you want more balance in your life, does the thought of trying to achieve it fill you with dread? Does it feel a daunting task, just another thing on your to-do list? Even though you want to make some improvements to your work life balance, its easy to get overwhelmed by the thought of what needs to be done. This can lead to losing your motivation and you end up not doing anything.

The Mind Body and Soul Solution to Stress
I hope to provide you with key insights into how your business can succeed without the unnecessary stress and potential burnout.

Mega-Trend: WorkLife Initiatives Take Hold
In our tight job market, employees may have more of a say about when, and where, they work. According to some new studies we might be seeing more of that in the form of worklife balance initiatives.

WorkLife Synergy: An Attorney Creates WorkLife Balance

The elusive quest for Worklife Balance becomes a more difficult task when your not following your bliss. But even if your career or job is not fulfilling there are ways to augment the way you work even when you're working for someone else. Attorney Arnie Herz did just that. Disillusioned with the typical workday as an attorney, he changed his intention and put a strategy to work to create more meaningful work.

Work/Life Balance – The Basic Building Blocks – Rest, Exercise, Nutrition, Work and Love

We’re living in the information age - an era of incredibly fast change. On a daily basis we’re being overwhelmed with new information and alternatives pertaining to our work, our health, our lifestyles, our families, our technology and every other conceivable matter pertaining to the business of life. We’re also living in an era of abundance – we’re constantly being bombarded with bigger, better, brighter options – and we relentlessly have to make choices. The modern lifestyle is fast, overwhelming and driven by materialism. The net result is that we work increasingly hard and often burn ourselves out in an attempt to continue to expense our lifestyles.

How to build a resilient workforce

In today's business world, CEO's, managers and staff are under great stress to deliver more in less time. They face conflicting demands, long working hours, and constant change in an unforgiving business environment that keeps getting tougher, busier and faster. Companies are finding it difficult to hold onto valuable team members, and business owners are finding themselves working harder and longer, are spending less time with their family, and are burning out. So, what is the solution?

Work-Life Balance: Creating Boundaries At Work For Others To Follow
In my related article, Work-Life Balance —Creating Boundaries For You To Follow, I talked about the priorities you have in your career and your personal life and the boundaries that you will follow. Now I’ll discuss the boundaries you can put in place for your fellow workers to follow.

Work-Life Balance: Creating Boundaries For You To Follow
Making choices and enjoying those choices—that’s a scenario that worth aiming for! Let’s learn how we can achieve that by breaking the process down into steps.

Take A Vacation
Why it's necessary to get away from work from time to time and why if you are an employer it can actually make you more money if you force your staff to.

What is Work/Life Balance, Anyway?

Work/Life Balance is heard often in the media with magazines, talk-shows and self-help professionals offering solutions on ‘how to get it’. This is a great disservice as it assumes that Work/Life Balance is an end state – something that you accomplish and then reap the benefits. Work/Life is a journey, not a destination. This article outlines four actions you can take to move you forward on your journey.

Work-Life Balance
Are you giving your ALL to your company, or is your company becoming all that you really have?

The Balancing Act Part 1
Finding Balance between Work, Family, Friends, Self and Community in a Deadline Driven World is a tough task. How is it that some seem to find it easy whilst others seem to find it impossible. If it was as easy as a 1, 2, 3 step process, no-one would have the problem. The key lies right where you stand. It's all about the challenge you feel and your next step. Are you up for it? REad on...

How To Achieve Your Ideal Work/Life balance
Achieving your ideal work/life balance can be tricky. Take the quiz and find out if you are in dire need of help to achieve your ideal work/life balance.

Should Teaching Your Child Involve Longer School Days?
There has been much debate recently as to whether schooldays should be longer. Many feel that school days should be between 9 am and 5pm but would this really be beneficial?

Live To Work Or Work To Live?

I've recently spoken to yet another person who, even though they loved their work, realised there's more to life - and they needed to readjust the balance. If you're running your own business, it's easy to get sucked in to working all hours to keep your business going. While you need to put in the time and effort to build up a successful business, sometimes it helps to take a step back and get a new perspective on your life and work.

Work Life Balance: 9 Quick Tips for Managing Overwhelm
If you feel that your work life balance is teetering on the edge; isn't it time to make changes before the problems overwhelm you? Whether or not you own your own business, life is often overwhelmingly rich. I wish you joy in the dance as you move with order and disorder, discipline and insight, gracefully maintaining work life balance.

Life/work balance is nonsense
I hear a lot of talk about life/work balance and I think most of it is nonsense. The word balance for me implies equal. I prefer the word harmony, therefore life/work harmony. My personal and business life are not equal or in balance and are never likely to be. They are in harmony with one another, that is, they work together like a symphony, two sides of the same coin.

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