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Work life balance and starting a small business are not often seen on the same page. Somewhere in the "silent code book for small business - author unknown" there is a rule that says you have to work your butt off to be successful. Most certainly you do need to put in a lot of time and effort in the early days ....... BUT if you work yourself into a burnout frenzy, you are NOT going to be able to work effectively IN your business, let alone ON your business.

All Work-No Life? Organize for Productivity, Profit and Peace-of-Mind (Part 1)
Pain, stress, burn-out, information fatigue and severely eroded work-life balance. These are just some of the syndromes caused by our technologically accelerated society. In this introductory part of a series of articles we ask whether there is any hope of ever restoring sanity to our “crazy” world.

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?

Top 5 ways to avoid burnout this season and year
Do you think that you will always be healthy and well, no matter how much you may be neglecting taking care of yourself? When you do, your risks eventually become bigger than your rewards. Learn 5 simple tips for successful self-care.

Adult Onset ADD - The New Silent Culprit Claiming Many Burnt Out Workers
Most people think that burnout is only a condition for the over ambitious, type A personalities who go at such a tremendous pace that their body and mind just can't keep up. I also think that there is a different type of burnout that is quickly becoming a lot more common. Feeling burnout can also occur when you don't have any ambition. I call it Adult Onset ADD or Ambition Deficit Disorder...

Delegating Diligently
Are you enjoying running your business or is your business running you? Too many business owners and other leaders try to control work outcomes by doing everything themselves. Burnout and personal and staff ineffectiveness is the result. This article outlines the proven benefits of being proactive by delegating diligently. Read on to learn about 8 tips you can use for delegating effectively.

10 Reasons Everyone Needs a Vacation

Off and on over the years I have taken vacation time. It is only recently that I have been conscious of its value. There have been times when I felt too busy to leave work. Other times I thought my work was at a crucial juncture and it wouldn't get accomplished without me. All solo professionals know that the revenue generation stops while the owner is away. For me that is yet another reason not to vacation. I know I am not alone in making excuses not to take a vacation. According to the Take Back Your Time organization "43% of American workers didn't even take a solid week off." What are the benefits of taking a vacation?

4 Ways To Effectively Tame Your Stress
Are you stressed? Here are four ways to rapidly and effectively get your stress under control. Learn how to optimize your stress levels so they fuel your progress instead of draining your energy.

Leadership Strategies and NO to Burnout

Entrepreneurs are constantly reinventing themselves, often on a daily basis. As high energy business people it is often hard to keep up with you. And then the inevitable happens. One day, for no obvious reason brains stop working; not in the sense that you forget how to drive a car, more like creative ideas have flown the coop. When this happens to me I tend to freeze, worried that I'll never have another good, let alone great idea ever again. Did you ever stop to think about the best way to handle these moments of brain drain?

Want to Know the Biggest Source of Stress at Work? Check the Office Next Door
Employee satisfaction is at an all-time low. Less you think it's all about the economy, a survey of 5000 workers revealed that the major sources of dissatisfaction had to do with the job itself and, in particular, the immediate supervisor.

How Internet Marketers Working from Home can Avoid Burnout!
One of the biggest problems that many internet marketers who work from home face is the possibility of burnout. There are various ways that this can manifest for example a complete lack of motivation, writers block or just general apathy towards any tasks related to their internet based businesses.

Can You Be Yourself At Work?

Who do you get to be every day at work? Not only is it important to do meaningful work but you must do it in a way that allows you to be your best self. Can you be your authentic self or do you need to change your behavior to fit the expectations of your environment? To get the most satisfaction out of your work you need to work in an environment where you are valued and allowed to be the person you are. If you are required to change your behavior too much you will be under a great deal of stress and a candidate for burnout.

Creating a Megatrend of Human Sustainability

Sustainability is said to be the new global megatrend. But the greatest global energy crisis gets little mention in this context - human energy. We are burning human energy at a rate far in excess of our ability to generate new energy. The signs are clear in every workplace and in the community - stress-generated illness, road rage, crime and violence, depression, divorce and suicide. There is a natural, unlimited answer.

An Antidote for Executive Stress
There is too much stress in the executive suite these days. I believe it is unhealthy. For sure it is not much fun. One antidote is to spend some time changing the culture. This article has a description of the problem and the benefits of an improved culture.

The Wellbeing of Staff Wellbeing
Staff wellbeing is presently clearly unwell. And the jury is out on the extent to which business sees value in doing much about it.

Sanity Survival-PATIENCE, NOW!!!!!!
Impatient people are prone to obesity, according to a study at the University of Munich in Germany and the University of Michigan at Dearborn. Impatient types are also shown to have a high risk for hypertension later in life. Follow these four tips to explore your impatience and overcome it!

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KATHRYN KATES' PHILOSOPHY OF PUBLIC RELATIONS
Four key elements to success in PR!

Live Purposefully To Discover Your True North.
Many people want to know the purpose of their lives. It is not easy to figure out but to discover the fullness of the purpose of your life, you first have to live purposefully.

Burnout or Boredom?
When your energy is depleted is it because you're burned out or simply bored? How can you tell? Read on.

Employee Turnover in the IT Industry
Even as companies institute hiring freezes or are downsizing, they would do well to remember that it is more cost effective in the long run to hold on to employees with key skills.

Time Off: Do Small Business Owners Get Any?

Time Off: Do Small Business Owners Get Any? - People might become business owners because they want to get ahead. However, once you're living the life of a small business owner, you quickly discover that you have a much shorter-term goal: Trying to take a vacation. Business ownership is busy and a vacation may feel like it will cause serious business disruption. But there is a way that you can enjoy a vacation. In this article, you'll learn how some businesses are breaking out of the entrepreneur time trap to allow the owners to enjoy some renewing downtime.

How Much Can Your Staff Handle?...The Limiting Factor Behind Sustainable Productivity Gains

Most companies are now trying to boost flagging profits with a smaller workforce. What that means is that each member of your staff will be required to work with greater speed , efficiency and productivity than ever before. But what if your remaining staff can't physically, mentally or emotionally handle this increased workload? What will it cost your company in terms of absenteeism, workers compensation and skyrocketing health premiums if your company just wears out your employees to the point of illness, injury or burn out? What can you do to prevent employee burnout?

Consulting Practice Tips: Delegate Weaknesses to Virtual Assistants
Do you know the business activities to focus on to build your consulting practice? Learn from my mistakes that cost me dearly when I was new, and where to put your time and effort for the maximum results. Part of the answer is doing what you do best, and finding the help you need for the rest.

Why Entrepreneurs Need To Exercise Differently Than Other People

Most entrepreneurs are aware of the importance to stay in shape, but the challenge is that entrepreneurs typically adopt the same approach to exercise as they do to business. To support your fast paced and intense working life the temptation is to do a high intensity workout at full pace. This is a mistake. Adding high intensity, fast-paced exercise to a high intensity, fast-paced life only serves to amplify the imbalance in your life leading to an increased risk of illness, injury or burnout. I call this being an "Exhaustedpreneur". Exhaustedpreneurs are entrepreneurs whose bodies can't physically keep up with the demands of their work and life. The solution is about exercising in balance. I call it Exercising Right For Your Engine Type...

8 Steps to Foster Employee Happiness
Are you having a problem with high turnover? Are your top performers leaving in droves? Are there performance issues? The key to overcoming these challenges is employee happiness.

Selling and managing are not the same
I wrote recently about sales burnout and the challenges many SME business owners have of being all things to all people including, usually, the main sales person and sales manager. Like many people, I have known that selling and managing are not the same thing. They are two very distinct jobs with different demands and expectations.

Burnt-out, tired, had enough?
Sales is not for the faint hearted, nor is running your own business. For those of us who run our own businesses and/or have careers in sales or sales management, we find we are often faced with stressful situations. How do we manage ourselves in times of stress?

Leading a healthy sales career

It is well documented that being healthy (physically, emotionally, and mentally) is vital to leading an effective and productive life. In sales, your health is a critical factor to your success. Many highly successful sales people I meet are self disciplined in all aspects of their life ensuring they are fit, healthy and well trained in their profession. Having a healthy sales career is underpinned by the individuals healthy life style, and a well managed business which includes good sales support, clear goals and leadership.

Whole-Life Symmetry™: When Work-Life Balance Doesn't Work
We can try to be balanced—spending equal, predetermined amounts of time in each area of life—but still burn out if we have missed doing the right kinds of things at the right times. We don’t need balance; we need symmetry. In a symmetrical life, no component is more or less important than it should be, there is a correct proportion of the moving parts, and there is harmony.

Keeping Your Home Based Business Going After The Rush Has Worn Off
Starting your home based business is a challenge; everything is new, and it's very easy to just put in the extra hours because you're building something for yourself, not working extra hours for a boss who doesn't appreciate your talents or work ethic. It's easy to get wrapped up in the work and to dig down deep into the details that make your business yours.

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.

Stress – The Silent Threat
Although some stress is normal, chronic stress can cause a myriad of problems, ranging from headaches, skin rashes, and high blood pressure to sleep disturbances, burnout, and depression. This article contains a list of ten things you can do to decrease your stress level.

Ten Ways to Avoid Burnout
Business Week ran an article entitled The Overworked Networked Family. In the article was a list of 7 tips to avoid burnout. I’ve modified their list a bit and added some of my own to make 10 tips. The focus of the article was how professionals and knowledge workers can use technology to balance work and family life.

Enjoy Beating Burnout

Ever wondered how some people seem to be always relaxed and confident at work, no matter how much pressure, stress and change is imposed on them? We're not talking here of sporadic bursts of high pressure that take more than the usual effort. This is all the time - over weeks and months, even years. The answers don't just rest in the way they approach their work. It's more about what they do when they are away from work. This article unlocks some answers that are, and always have been, available to everyone.

Work Life Balance: 7 Keys to Avoid Burnout

Last week I gave a workshop on time management for a women's group. I asked the audience (mostly moms) about their biggest challenges about time management and stress management. Not surprisingly, most of them feel stressed out, overwhelmed, juggling too many competing priorities, have too many things to do with too little time, and virtually no time for themselves. If you're a mom, I bet you can probably relate to this, at least to some degree. What you might not know is that you are heading toward burnout. This article will teach you 7 keys to avoid burnout.

Emotional Energy is Our Engine
Emotional Energy can be equated to the engine of a car and must be right-sized our problems occur.

The Art of Recreating Yourself
Whatever business each of us finds ourselves operating everyday, we got there for one reason or another. It can be a business we truly have a passion for, or in some cases one we thought we would, turning out that we didn’t. Or perhaps there are aspects of the business where our passion lies and other parts that we avoid creating a big disconnect for us in the entire business.

Tips for Relighting After Burnout:
Eileen discusses our current stressful political and economic situations, provides a list of burnout symptoms and then offers help on how you can regain control. A must read for those who are overwhelmed.

Shut Up, Put Up, and Get Some Quiet Back
Jump off the merry-go-round of 24 hour accessibility to get in touch with yourself and the people you love.

Productivity: Rhythm vs. Perpetual Motion

Many people feel that in order to be truly efficient in their work day, they have to be constantly busy, constantly moving from one thing to another. These people make a constant effort to not waste a single moment in their day. The reality? Productivity is more about rhythm than perpetual motion. Just as top athletes and performers need to find a personal rhythm, so you, as a professional in your field, need to find the proper rhythm for how you use your day.

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF STRESS

Many years ago and much earlier in my career I was Manager of the Employee Assistance Program for the Province of Manitoba. Back in those early days I was confronted with a dilemma in assessing the nature of some presenting problems, which in the end was to change my approach and interest in the way I understood stress and the way in which I was to help support persons who were experiencing the symptoms of stress for the next 35 years. When the cause of a stress symptoms jumps up and hits you in the face like a 2-by-4, (i.e. loss of a loved one) you know what you are dealing with and accordingly, can act to address it. But what if it relates to not living your life congruently with what it is you value, and/or not living your life according to your personality type and finally, perhaps not being able to meet your perceived needs?

Towers Perrin Study Discounts Workplace Myths;
Work/life leadership expert, author and speaker, Eileen McDargh, analyzes the data and expresses caution when reading the recently released 2007 Global Workforce Study by Towers Perrin.

Why You Should Ignore Your Cell Phone and Laptop: Six Keys to a Great Vacation
You work hard, long for a vacation and when the time comes, you drag along your laptop, cell phone,iPod, portable DVD player and other tech gadgets so you can play 'catch up' while you're 'enjoying' your vacation. But wait, isn't a holiday supposed to 'free you' from these obsessions. Discover the six key secrets to having a vacation worth taking.

What are Some Best Practices in the Area of Sabbatical Leave
Debating on whether or not you should implement that sabbatical leave practice? There are ways to use this sometimes forgotten policy and to use it well.

Career Vision Moving Your Life From Stress To Balance

The vehicle for moving from the Stress Cycle to the Balance Cycle is a personal vision for your life and your career. This is a picture of yourself in the future that is meaningful and fulfilling for you. It can help you at each turning point when you make decisions about your life and your career. It can help you every day to make those small decisions that add up to the Stress Cycle or the Balance Cycle.

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.

WorkLife Serenity: Cold Turkey Style
Just imagine taking the time every day to just stop what you are doing at work and just listen and contemplate the rest of your day. Not the ordinary task of those of us snagged in the 24/7 working environment. But sometimes it's necessary to put the stops on the day to take a break,let the phone ring, the e-mail ding and the mind take a swim in the land of oz. Here's how and why.

Keeping Your Work Life Engine Purring

Life in today\'s stressful world is like driving a car. The harder you drive your car, the greater its fuel consumption and the more often it needs to be refueled. It also needs regular care and attention to avoid unexpected breakdowns along the way. You are driving yourself harder and harder each day. This article suggests how to ensure you keep your energy supplies topped up, stay resilient and avoid burnout.

4 Ways to Ensure Your Business Thrives

What’s the biggest problem facing your organization? Inadequate funding? Burnout of employees, volunteers, board members? Lack of vision? Overwhelming workload? Many, many organizations face these issues. But if you think “Well, that’s just the nature of this kind of work,” think again. These problems are often symptoms indicating that an organization has slipped into what I call a culture of endurance. Please note that endurance is not the same as perseverance. When organizations persevere, everyone may work long hours and get by on a shoestring, but employees, volunteers, board members, and general membership all feel energized, enthusiastic, and united by a common goal/mission. When companies or nonprofits are in endurance, however, they exhibit some typical symptoms:

ReKindling Your Passion for Your Work and Your Life

Dear Jane, I wake up every morning wondering how I got to where I am today: bored, dreading my responsibilities, and numb. How did this happen and what do I do about it? Most of us have woken up occasionally to a feeling of dread or anxiety, wishing we were facing a different day ahead of us. But if this is how you feel most mornings, wishing you had a different life, you are suffering from burnout. Burnout is the result of enduring for too long and is debilitating to your spirit. The good news is that it’s curable.

Health & Business Performance
So if like me; you live and breathe for your businesses and aim to make them as successful and as profitable as possible then you need to continue to breath life into your business, you need to be healthy, strong, adaptable and full of vitality to ensure you and your business not only survives but succeeds.

YOU Are Your Businesses Greatest Asset:

Whether you're in the early stages of creating a business or have been in business for a decade, it's a good idea to revisit the basics and make sure you have a strong personal foundation for your business to thrive upon. It doesn't matter how good your products or services are if you don't stay in good shape, mentally, emotionally and physically eventually, you're out of business. Statistics tell us that most small businesses fail in the first 5 years due to lack of capital. While this is true, in my experience the other reason businesses fail is from owner burnout!

Time Management

It seems to me that entrepreneurs often have a harder time than others with their time management skills. After all, they’re a creative class who like to concern themselves with great ideas and new innovations. They’re rarely ones for nitpicky details about scheduling, especially when it comes to giving them enough time for themselves. They like to work to all hours of the night getting their baby off the ground and running, and rarely think about the consequences. But as an entrepreneur, if you’re going to succeed, you need to learn how to organize your time effectively. This article will show you how.

Top Ten List Survive the Big Boomer Business Bust
In the next decade half of all small and medium size business owners will exit their business. Unfortunately, only about 20% will be succesful in selling their businesses. This article will explain some ways to improve your chances of selling your company for big bucks!

12 simple steps business owners can take to avoid burnout
Many people experience burnout at some point in their lives. Business owners and the self-employed are even more likely to fall prey to burnout because the buck stops with them. If you feel as if you're starting to burn out here are some things you can do to avoid it.

Avoiding The Burnout Trap
We live in a fast past society with more demands on our personal and professional lives than ever before. If we're not careful, we will find ourselves trapped in burnout feeling like there's no escape.

Suffering from Business Burnout? COP's is Here To Help You!
Business burnout can be suffered by any business owner, whether you own and manage an online business or brick-and-mortar business.

Archenemies of the Aspiring Bestselling Author - Burnout and Apathy
Here are a couple of tips to help you overcome burnout and apathy, the archenemies of authors around the world!

Stress Management Tips: Job Burnout Prevention
Job burnout is an insidious problem in the American workforce, among all levels of employees. Frequently undiagnosed, burnout may appear in job statistics of absenteeism statistics, in suicide rates, or in the development of chronic illnesses that keep employees from working. Ultimately, working oneself to death can be the disguise for job burnout.

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