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Work-Life Balance: How To Get A Handle On Time

Work-Life Balance: How To Get A Handle On Time

Is your business eating away at your Other Time? That Other Time is every bit as important as work time. It’s true. It’s just tough keeping this idea from slipping into the background noise of work and more work.

You know I’m going to say it, “Which work tasks are most important?” No fair saying, “They’re all important.” The most important use of your time right now is to answer this question on a piece of paper that you can refer to whenever you’re overwhelmed.

Accept that you cannot do EVERYTHING. If time has been getting away from you, here’s what I want you to do. If time has only been a little out of control, decide you’re going to take on 95% of what you usually tackle. If it’s been really bad, scale it back to 80%.

Here’s where you refer to your priority list of work tasks. How many hours do you have to devote to work today? Don’t work through lunch or extend your day. That’s part of your important Other Time. How can you fit the selected jobs into the day? Write up a schedule. Decide what you’ll do when the inevitable Unexpected Thing shows up. Will you knock something out of the schedule? Will you tell others that you can’t handle that today? Will you suggest another person who can take it on?

The people who are truly successful in business don’t take on everything that comes their way. Instead, they perform well on selected tasks. Be in control, select the tasks you will perform well. Refer to your priority list at least a couple of times a day. Now, here’s the tip of the week.


Nancy Clark’s Tip of the Week:

Starting this week, I want you to build yourself a Time Cushion. If you think a job will take you one hour, I want you to say to others that it will take an hour and a half. Theoretically, you should have 30 minutes to devote to something extra. You and I know that you probably won’t have more than 15 minutes because—we all do this—we’re too optimistic with our time. Now here’s the fun part of the Time Cushion: Decide how you’re going to reward yourself during that extra time. Twenty minutes is long enough for a meditation session listening to a tape of the ocean. Doesn’t that sound rewarding? OK, if not, think of something that resonates with you. Me, I’m opting for the ocean.

Nancy Clark gives you a tip each week on her blog, Women’s Lunch Talk.





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Cheryl is a life skills coach, licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor and a 20 year entrepreneur.  Cheryl's dedication to achieving a life of balance led to her expanding her teaching from the simple managing of life's daily challenges to adding financial well being as well.  A direct marketer with DrinkACT, she is gaining ground in the online community with her concepts of making sure business owners, entreprenuers and employees have well rounded life styles.  She opened up a small affiliate site - The Balance Guide-  to help others find resources for mental and emotional well being.  Visit Cheryl's blog to see more of the diversity beyond business she has began offering online at www.thebalanceguide.blogspot.com

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