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A Healthier Approach To Work Life Balance
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On Saturday morning I took my children with me to visit a friend of mine who was turning 40 only to find that he wasn't home. He was at his son's athletics carnival. Since I hadn't seen him for a couple of months we decided to catch up with him there.

But who I met at the carnival there wasn't the person I knew. He was red-faced, bloated and frazzled. The extra 15 pounds that he had put on over the last couple of months seemed to make him look 15 years older.

I have seen many patients come to me looking like this before and my health training had taught me the potential alarming consequences. To see these disturbing signs in my friend caused me to break short on my birthday greetings.

"Happy Birth... . What's up? You look like a heart attack waiting to happen."
"Mate, I can't talk now. I'm up to my eyeballs with the kids sports and rehearsals and my work is piling up so much I'll have to spend half of tomorrow at work to catch up. Thanks for catching up. I'll get in touch when things calm down."

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.  With the developments of laptops, Blackberrys and Iphones technology has given us additional options to be able to do a bit of work while enjoying time with your family or while on vacation. Unfortunately technology has made us less physically active and as aresult, has weakened our capacity to produce our own energy. To make up for our technologically driven physical deficiencies, it is important to spend some of the time saved by technology exercising to boost your physical capacity to produce enough energy to sustain you.

Additional ways to save time can be found with the expansion of the Internet. It is  now possible to save a lot of commuting time and provide additional flexibility in your lives by being able to complete a lot of work from home. Not only should couples with young families be using such advantages of technology to improve your work life balance but also you can amplify the benefits by outsourcing your life.

What do I mean by outsourcing your life?

I mean that you start paying others to do the jobs that you don't like as much so that you can spend more time with your partner and family doing things that you enjoy. This frees up your time for your personal and family life. Start paying a local kid in your neighborhood to mow your lawns and weed your garden. There will always be some teenagers who wish to earn some extra money by house cleaning, washing and ironing clothes and baby-sitting.

Many of you will say, "I don't have the money to hire these people."

If you don't currently have the money, create the money. Spend a few hours a week on a part-time home-based business opportunity. There are numerous opportunities where you can earn an extra few hundred dollars a month to supplement your income from home. It doesn't take much outsourcing to make a big difference to your work life balance. You could even suggest a baby-sitting or housekeeping voucher for your birthdays or Christmas.

For all you Generation Yers out there, you can avoid a lot of the current work life balance challenges. I recommend that you adopt a different approach to work life balance: work your butts off now and balance your life later.

Why do I say this?

In your twenties, outside of your work, your life is generally parties, bars, hanging-out with friends doing not much, and boyfriends and girlfriends. Compared this to the life of a parent in their thirties and forties that involves pick ups and drop offs from school, children's doctors appointments, caring and raising children, soccer practice, ballet recitals and nurturing a relationship with a spouse and/or shipping the children back and forth between separated parents.

It doesn't take a Rhodes scholar to work out that the life of someone in their twenties is a lot simpler, less demanding and requires a lot less time to maintain. So, in your twenties, when your life can take a back seat to work, I say work your tails off right now.

The time to get ahead is now, and you shouldn't make any apologies for doing whatever you can do to make it happen. Whether that means starting a blog or a web-based business, side stepping the typical corporate ladder by job hopping, or starting your own company or becoming an investor, now's the time to do it.

Get yourself into a position where you can afford to begin cutting back on your work time commitments as your life away from work grows.

Several years back, upon the birth of our second child I made the decision to stop working six days a week and to reduce my work to four days a week. A colleague asked me, "Won't that cost your business a lot of money."
I replied, "We've done the figures and worked out that it resulted in a 20% reduction in my business profit. And is that a price I am prepared to pay for my family to know me in the future?... Absolutely."





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(Visit Dr. Paul's Website) Dr. Paul Lanthois is a chiropractor, speaker and work life balance expert. He is the director of The Work Life Balance Foundation which provides health, stress management and work-life balance lifestyle programs specifically for businesses and their employees. Dr. Lanthois has been a successful Australian chiropractor for nearly 20 years. He has spoken to many business and community groups such as Optus Telecommunications, St. George Bank and the SA Police Force. For two years Dr. Lanthois was the coordinator of health management at Action Coach (formerly Action International) Billionaire in Trainingï¿ Entrepreneur seminars. His academic background consists of: - A Masters of Chiropractic at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. - A Post Graduate Diploma of Chiropractic Sport Science, Macquarie University. - A Bachelor Science (majoring in Anatomy and Physiology), University of Adelaide. He is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine and the International Foundation For Nutrition and Health. Perhaps his most important qualification is that he successfully overcame his own energy burnout while managing two companies and raising a family and has developed a step-by-step proprietary process to recharge the weary and re-ignite the burned-out. Dr. Lanthois new book : From Burnout To Balance In 4 Weeks: The Business Health Program To Boost Morale and Productivity is due to be released in November, 2009.

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