Work-Life Balance: Creating Boundaries For You To Follow
Work-Life Balance: Creating Boundaries For You To Follow
1. If my life could focus on one thing and one thing only, what would that be?
2. If I could add a second thing, what would that be?
3. A third?
4. A fourth?
5. A fifth?
I’m going to assume you don’t have a couple days free, so grab a blank piece of paper right now and put down the 5 most important items. Then think about them and rearrange them if necessary. They will probably include some of these:
Family
Career/Job
Friends
Community
Church/Spirituality
Travel
Hobbies
Art/Culture
Sports
Health
Drop Unnecessary Activities
You know those annoying activities that keep popping up, and you keep doing, but are droppable none-the-less. Drop them! Drop them especially fast if they don’t pertain to your top 5 list.
Protect You Work Time & Your Private Time
Set boundaries for your workday. For instance, you may decide that you will not arrive at work before a certain time and you won’t work later than a specific hour. I advise you to consider that you won’t work through lunch. Schedule your lunchtime just like any appointment. Decide day by day whether it will be for your relaxation, your socialization, or perhaps for the chance to court a new client or business opportunity . . . while you eat.
Don’t try to justify your private time to others. You know you need time for yourself—so, schedule it in.
Set 2 Goals Every Day
Make sure that your schedule is set so there is at least one thing you will be proud you achieved and one thing you know you’ll enjoy—every day. Now, here’s my tip.
Nancy Clark’s Tip:
I want you to get creative with the second half of the work-life balance issue—the life half. Think of a deal you can make with one of your friends to gain more time in your personal life. For example, “If you take my kids to and from soccer, I’ll make a double-size dinner on Wednesdays and you can pick it up on your way home.” You get the idea. It’s bartering with winners on both sides. Let me know your creative ideas! I’ll share them with our audience. Nancy Clark gives you a tip each week on the blog, Women’s Lunch Talk.
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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. Personal coach Laura Berman Fortgang has her clients take a couple days off from work to think about the following questions:
1. If my life could focus on one thing and one thing only, what would that be?
2. If I could add a second thing, what would that be?
3. A third?
4. A fourth?
5. A fifth?
I’m going to assume you don’t have a couple days free, so grab a blank piece of paper right now and put down the 5 most important items. Then think about them and rearrange them if necessary. They will probably include some of these:
Family
Career/Job
Friends
Community
Church/Spirituality
Travel
Hobbies
Art/Culture
Sports
Health
Drop Unnecessary Activities
You know those annoying activities that keep popping up, and you keep doing, but are droppable none-the-less. Drop them! Drop them especially fast if they don’t pertain to your top 5 list.
Protect You Work Time & Your Private Time
Set boundaries for your workday. For instance, you may decide that you will not arrive at work before a certain time and you won’t work later than a specific hour. I advise you to consider that you won’t work through lunch. Schedule your lunchtime just like any appointment. Decide day by day whether it will be for your relaxation, your socialization, or perhaps for the chance to court a new client or business opportunity . . . while you eat.
Don’t try to justify your private time to others. You know you need time for yourself—so, schedule it in.
Set 2 Goals Every Day
Make sure that your schedule is set so there is at least one thing you will be proud you achieved and one thing you know you’ll enjoy—every day. Now, here’s my tip.
Nancy Clark’s Tip:
I want you to get creative with the second half of the work-life balance issue—the life half. Think of a deal you can make with one of your friends to gain more time in your personal life. For example, “If you take my kids to and from soccer, I’ll make a double-size dinner on Wednesdays and you can pick it up on your way home.” You get the idea. It’s bartering with winners on both sides. Let me know your creative ideas! I’ll share them with our audience. Nancy Clark gives you a tip each week on the blog, Women’s Lunch Talk.
WorkLife Balance Creating Boundaries For You To Follow - To learn more about this author, visit Nancy Clark's Website.
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Michel NerayMichel Neray has over 25 years of experience as an award-winning copywriter, an Internet pioneer, a tradeshow pitchman and a senior sales and marketing executive. An online pioneer, he was one of the first marketing professionals to embrace the Internet by building websites as early as 1993. In 1994, Michel co-authored a book entitled "The Great Crossover: Personal Confidence in the Age of the Microchip", which made it to Jack Canfield's Achiever's Recommended Reading List. Michel founded Portfolios.com in 1995, the world's first online source directory for creative professionals and one of the first websites based on community generated content. Since creating The Essential Message in 2003, Michel has helped thousands of independent professionals and entrepreneurs as well as growing corporations find a better way to differentiate, position and brand themselves. In 2005, his chapter "Everything Starts With A Conversation" was selected as the lead for the book, "Sales Gurus Speak Out" and re-published in 2008 for 'Awakening The Workplace Volume 3'. He is also a co-author of "In the Company of Leaders" (2008) with 40 top North American leadership experts. - Visit Michel Neray's Website |
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