Work Life Balance

8 Strategies For Making A Better Life

Tamar Chansky | Posted 06.02.2012

Read More: Work-Life Balance, Expectations, Anxiety, Perfectionism, Happiness, Productivity, Enhancing Performance, Happiness Tips, Emotional Intelligence, Overcoming Perfectionism, Gps-Soul, Emotional Wellness, Perfectionism Anxiety, Perfectionist, Healthy Living News

The opposite of perfection isn't imperfection or mediocrity; it's reality. It's possibility. It's all the magnificent points that exist all around the bull's eye.

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Small-Business Owners Most Stressed By Running Business

The Huffington Post | Rieva Lesonsky | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Bank of America Small Business Survey, Work Life Balance, Survey Says, Small Business News and Trends, Small Business Owners Stress, Small Business Stress, Small Business News

Running a small business is more stressful than anything else in a small-business owner's life -- including raising children -- according to a new sur...

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8 Easy Ways To Get Work-Life Balance

SavySugar | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Breaks at Work, Work Life Balance, Managing Calendar, Friends, Peace of Mind, Work, Work Balance, Limit Phone Calls, Excercise, Women News

If you can't remember the last time you saw your friends, you haven't put on your sneakers in months, or you regularly find yourself checking your pho...

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A Surprising Consequence Of The Recession

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Time Off, U.S. Economy, Overworked, Great Speed Up, Paid Time Off, Work-Life Balance, Paid Sick Leave, Vacation Time, Job Market, Video, Sick Days, Sick Leave, UK Economy, Paid Sick Days, Vacation Days, Business News

Sick days seem to be a thing of the past -- and the weak economy may be to blame. In the first three months of 2011, sick days accounted for an ave...

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Downtime: A Life's Work In Question

Carol Orsborn | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Work-Life Balance, Travel, Vacation, Spirituality, Workaholics, Sleep Deprivation, Corporate Culture, Self-Help, Mindful Living, Religion News

The possibility that I am to pass off the face of this earth not as a headline, nor even as a footnote, is somehow both sobering and liberating.

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The One Thing Politicians Can Agree on

Michael Zacka | Posted 05.22.2012

The magic that happens over shared meals can help preserve the American family, strengthen all of its members and enrich their lives. I'm sure America's Republicans and Democrats both agree that more families should be sitting together at dinner.

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Men in Pink

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Economy, Gender Pay Gap, Career Satisfaction, Craig Claiborne, Careers, Betsey Stevenson, Glass Ceiling, New York Times, Work-Life Balance, Feminism, Adia Harvey Wingfield, Gender Roles, Glass Escalator, Women News

I saw a piece in the NYT about men taking jobs in traditionally female-dominated fields. It features male dental assistants, nurses (paging Gaylord Focker!) and teachers. Which is cool. Mostly.

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Bias in the Workplace Against Maternity Leave

Lauren Wallenstein | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Maternity Leave Bias, Work-Life Balance, Having Children, Maternity Leave, Pregnant Women, Pregnant, Parents News

The hardest part of maternity leave is no longer sleepless nights caring for a newborn, but dealing with the anxiety surrounding communication between a pregnant women and her employer.

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Your Start-Up Life: How to Get Flexibility at Work?

Rana Florida | Posted 05.16.2012

Feel free to let your boss know that a new study released by the Center for Disease Control, National Institutes of Health, and American Cancer Society has confirmed what many have long suspected: that lengthy car commutes are terrible for your health.

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CrazyBusy: 10 Key Principles To Managing Modern Life

Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Stress, Work Life Balance, Mindfulness, Life Tips, Gps-Soul, Emotional Wellness, Tips for Life, Tips on Life, Wellbeing, Stress Tips, Happiness, Healthy Living News

In today's crazybusy world, you must deliberately preserve and cultivate your most valuable connections to people, activities and whatever else is most important to you. As you take back control and lead a sane life, you become the person you really want to be.

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Ladies, There's More to Life

Jill Knapp | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: New York Work Life, Work-Life Balance, Relationships New York, Dating in New York, Online Dating, match.com, New York Dating, Dating, New York News

I'm starting to think the phrase, "If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere," is being taken a little bit too seriously. There's more to life out there.

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Ensuring a Work-Family Balance in the Middle East

Donna Stefano | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Global Motherhood, Single Moms, International Day of Families, West Bank, Work Life Balance, Middle East, United Nations Division for Social Policy and Development, Impact News

As time went on, the beauty of the Arab social life became clearer and I relished leaving the office along with them, guilt free, to pick up my son.

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Like It or Not, Your Kids Will Turn into You

Laurie Gerber | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Raising Children, Parenting, Parenting Tips, Parenting Advice, Emotional Baggage, Following Your Dreams, Work-Life Balance, Family Baggage, Forgiveness, Parents News

You'd think it tragic if your kid didn't get to fulfill his or her full potential, but what about you? Have you taken the time to think about and discuss what you really want to do with your life?

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The Miracle Of Motherhood Your Way

Christiane Northrup, MD | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Women?S Wisdom, Motherhood, Balance, Career, Mother-Daughter Wisdom, Women?S Bodies, Mothering, Work Life Balance, Decision-Making, Emotional Wellness, Parenting, Healthy Living News

Even though I had spent much of the five years prior to my daughter Annie's birth delivering babies and marveling at how infinitely varied were the ways in which their mothers responded to them, I was completely unaware of what my own response would be.

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Saying Yes to No

Jody Gastfriend | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Jody Gastfriend, Multitasking, Caregiver, Caregiving, Family Caregiver, care.com, Learning to Say No, Volunteering, Saying No, Work-Life Balance, Overextended, Fifty News

As many of my generation of caretaking, overextended, multi-tasking women can attest to, saying yes is easy; saying no can be tough.

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Your Start-Up Life: Tory Burch on Making Fashion Her Business

Rana Florida | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Tory Burch, Rana Florida, Work-Life Balance, Fashion Advice, Business of Fashion, Fashion Career, Burch Tory, Business Advice, Business News

"One of the most interesting and challenging parts of my job is being equally creative and business-minded in every aspect of our company. I've never been to design or business school, but in some ways that has helped me because I didn't think about impossibility. I've learned on the job and trusted my instincts."

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Moving From Wellness to Well-Being

Rose Stanley | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Health and Wellness, Work-Life Balance, Financial Education, Wellbeing, Health Care, Wellness, Emotional Wellness, National Employee Wellness Month, Employee Benefits, Business News

The state of many employees' emotional health is sub-optimal, but organizations are giving them the tools they need to make behavioral changes that ultimately drive health care costs down, creating more productive and engaged employees.

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What Is Life Like When You Graduate College and Start Working?

Quora | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: College, College Graduates, College Graduation, College Grads, Graduation, Work, Work-Life Balance, Education News

This question originally appeared on Quora. By Dan Robinson, Software Engineer at Palantir Two changes stuck out to me.Jobs don't have homewo...

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Lisa Hammond: Mompreneur Took Her Kids to Work Every Day

BJ Gallagher | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Women, Take Your Child to Work Day, Women in Business, Take Your Daughter to Work Day, Work Life Balance, Women Owned Business, Work Family Balance, Women News

Every April when "Take Your Child to Work Day" rolls around, I think of Lisa Hammond, a young mother of two when she started her business 20 years ago. She managed to build keep her sanity while building her business, raising two little ones, and creating a strong, happy marriage.

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Caregivers Need Harmony NOT Balance

Sheila Moeschen | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Harmony, Work-Life Balance, Moms, Women's Issues, Women's Health, Caregivers, Sheryl Sandberg, Women News

It is time for the concept of harmony to replace the work-life balance buzz.

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The Balanced Life

Paul Spector, M.D. | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Habits, The Balanced Life, Shopping, Money, Sex, Food, Work-Life Balance, Sleep, Addiction, Excess, Balance, Emotional Intelligence, Achieve Balance, Healthy Living News

How can we understand our relationship with excess? How do we continue to believe that more money or cars or shoes or food or sex will make us happy? Why are we the only animal that can be made ill by our appetites?

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The Tyranny of Modern Motherhood?

Elisabeth Badinter | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: The Conflict, Attachment Parenting, Elisabeth Badinter, Breastfeeding on Demand, Work Life Balance, Work Life Conflict, Breastfeeding, Ideal Mother, Stay at Home Mothers, Parents News

With all of its demands, the naturalist ideal of the 21st century means that it takes a woman as much time and energy to raise two children as our grandmothers spent raising four.

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Losing Control and Gaining Yourself

Francesco Clark | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Stress, Mindful Eating, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Mindfulness Meditation, Mental Health, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Work Life Balance, Personal Growth, Natural Healing, Healing, Healthy Living News

I started to realize that my work ethic, while good for work, was leading to an unbalanced life. It made me ask: How do you realize the difference between a passion and having a complex?

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Turning off Your Smartphone: More Stress Or Less?

Leslie Perlow | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Stress Work Related, Workplace Stress, Work Life Balance, Work Stress, Gps-Soul, Smartphones, Technology, Life Balance, Stress at Work, Unplug and Recharge, Stress, Healthy Living News

When it comes to creating stress, smartphones are near the top of the list. Although these ubiquitous devices put the world at our fingertips, and seemingly free us from the shackles of the office, they also invade our lives and psyches.

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Is Work-Life Balance a Myth?

LearnVest | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Pamela Druckerman, Household Tasks, Guilt, Sheryl Sandberg, Third Shift, Battle of the Sexes, Work-Life Balance, Working Mom, Stay-at-Home Mom, Barbara Corcoranbringing Up Bebe, Hillary Clinton, Gender Imbalance, Parents News

Many moms are happy and willing to martyr themselves.

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