Work Life Balance

Page: << 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Invisible Tragedies -- Four Construction Workers Killed Every Day Building America

Terence M. O'Sullivan | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Construction Workers, Osha, Legislation, Risky Business, Work Fatalities, Danger, Dangerous, Work-Life Balance, Politics News

Construction workers face death on the job 20 times more often than miners and 10 times more often than police officers or firefighters. Yet their tragedy too often goes unnoticed.

Read Post

The Corporate Freshman: Busting Up the Power of Stress

Alexandra Levit | Posted 07.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Stress Management, Stress, Personal Development, Work-Life Balance, Career, Lifestyle, Happiness, Living News

Did you know that people get physically tired because of emotional factors like boredom, frustration and anxiety? True intellectual stimulation, on the other hand, doesn't exhaust us at all.

Read Post

Busting The Balance Myth

Joan Borysenko | Posted 07.04.2008 | Living

Read More: The Balance Myth, Work Life Balance, The Balanced Life, Living News

I was about to give a talk to a society of businesswomen in Atlanta one winter. One of the organizers took me by the hand and made a heartfelt plea: "...

Read Post

How To Conquer Workaholism

Lifehack.org | Posted 07.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Disconnecting, Work Life Balance, The Balanced Life, Workaholism, Workaholics, Unplugging, Living News

Workaholism is as much an addiction as those to drugs, tobacco or alcohol. Those who suffer from it crave the constant 'highs' they get from throwing ...

Read Whole Story

Why Vacations Just Don't Work

Mark Silver | Posted 06.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Mind-Body Connection, Work-Life Balance, Small Business, Vacations, Spirituality, Sufi, Business News

Often when you come back from vacation, by noon on Monday you're as exhausted as you were when you left. Did you take the wrong vacation? Or is there something wrong with vacations?

Read Post

Phone in the Toilet?

Linda Stone | Posted 06.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Attention, The Balanced Life, Technology, The Inner Life, Continuous Partial Attention, Work-Life Balance, Living News

Last week, a high school sophomore told me that she brings her phone into the shower with her -- in a Ziploc bag. She didn't want to miss an incoming text message.

Read Post

Stuffy Office Environment

Christine Hassler | Posted 06.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Stress, Baby Boomer, The Balanced Life, Workplace, Gen Y, Careerbuilder, Career Advice, Work-Life Balance, Twenty Something, Work Environment, Culture, Living News

Baby-boomers did not grow up with messages like "work should be fun" and "be passionate about your career." To them, a job is a job.

Read Post

Is it Time to Retire the Never-Ending List?

Linda Stone | Posted 06.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Unplugged, Disconnecting, Attention, The Balanced Life, Time Management, Work-Life Balance, Living News

As I was scanning a long list that I was adding to endlessly, I realized, "I'll never get it all done. That's probably just fine. But this endless list and this feeling of being completely scheduled...it's not working right now."

Read Post

Peaceful Revolution: Stop Watching The Clock

Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson | Posted 06.18.2008 | Living

Read More: Work-Life Balance, Results-Only Work Environment, Best Buy, Work, Best Buy Rowe, Rowe, The Balanced Life, Living News

In 2000, Best Buy Co., Inc. was like most Fortune 100 companies. People scrambled to get to work on time, got stuck in endless meetings, felt overwork...

Read Post

The Work/Life Balance Calculator: What's Your Score?

CNN | Posted 06.13.2008 | Living

Read More: The Balanced Life, Work Life Balance, Productivity, Sleep, Living News

...

Read Whole Story

How To Change Old Habits

Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Work-Life Balance, The Balanced Life, Productivity, Careerbuilder, Home News

I've noticed that one of the hardest things for people to do is to change what they're doing to something better to be doing, when there's nothing rea...

Read Whole Story

Forget Balance: Work, Life And The Surprising Secrets Of Happiness

Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 07.04.2008 | Business

Read More: Work Balance, Work Life Balance, Secret of Happiness, Secret of Life, Happiness, Business News

Balance may be the big buzzword in corporate America, but parceling yourself out in the quest for perfect balance often makes you so worried about the moments you're missing, that you forget how to enjoy the moments you're actually in.

Read Post

The Delights Of "Dummy Work"

David Allen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Work Life Balance, The Balanced Life, David Allen, Getting Things Done, Productivity, Careerbuilder, Living News

Often the most tactical thing to do with yourself is dummy work. And one of the best reasons to get organized is to take advantage of that. "Dummy" ...

Read Post

Let's Talk About Prioritizing

David Allen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Work Life Balance, The Balanced Life, How to Prioritize, Productivity, Careerbuilder, Living News

"How do I set priorities?" Because I hear that so frequently, I assume most people think they could and should be doing it better. I have a radical ...

Read Post

Combining a Big International Job with a Small Child

Perry Yeatman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Working Women, Work and Child, Work-Life Balance, International Job and Children, Careerbuilder, Living News

I recommend nine things anyone with a global job can do to help improve work/life balance, especially with small children.

Read Post

Don't Forget The Roses

David Allen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: The Balanced Life, Work-Life Balance, Productiviy, Living News

Have you noticed that things often take longer than they should? Because of that, it's unwise to hang our emotional hats on the completion of any fu...

Read Post

Later, 2007: How To Make 2008 Your Most Productive Year Ever

David Allen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: The Balanced Life, New Years Resolution, Work Life Balance, New Years 2008, Productivity, Living News

It's time to purge. The end of a year is a great metaphorical event to use to enhance a critical aspect of your constructive creativity -- get rid o...

Read Post

Priorities, Priorities, Priorities

David Allen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Work-Life Balance, The Balanced Life, Productivity, Career Builder, Careerbuilder, Living News

A core issue of life and work is this: At any point in time, are you appropriately putting the right amount of attention on the right thing? Are you d...

Read Post

Three Cheers For Sloth, Indolence, And Procrastination!

David Allen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: How to Not Procrastinate, Work-Life Balance, The Balanced Life, Procrastination Tips, Productivity, Living News

Few people have many good reference points for self-forgiveness and a sense of humor in this world of increasingly too much to do.

Read Post

You Can't Have It All (At The Same Time)

Heather Cabot | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Work-Life Balance, The Full Life, Stay-at-Home Moms, Working Moms, Living News

I think we all agree that employers need to do more to retain off-ramping women and to make the work environment more family friendly. But I do think that it also requires an attitude shift on our end as women and as mothers in that at some point we do have to make some choices.

Read Post

Staying In The Groove (When There Isn't One)

David Allen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: The Full Life, Life Coaching, Productivity, How to Be Happy, Work Life Balance, Technology and Producivity, Stress-Free Work Habits, Working With Less Stress, Techniques for Less Stress, How to Be Less Stressed, Living News

I'm often asked "Are we really living in a different world than the 'old days?'" Is there something uniquely stressful about the world as we're experi...

Read Post

A Thanksgiving State Of Mind

Heather Cabot | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: The Full Life, Thanksgiving Family, Stress-Free Thanksgiving, Work-Life Balance, How to Handle Your Family on Thanksgiving, Motherhood and Thanksgiving, Living News

I say, when you have two kids under two, you've just gone back to work, your husband has been traveling and your nanny has been on vacation for two weeks, you can't put a price on staying put.

Read Post

Beam Me Up! (Or How To Be In Two Places At Once)

Heather Cabot | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: The Full Life, Work Life Balance, Working Mothers, Stay at Home Mothers, The Well Mom, Living News

I think I had a brush with teleportation (or something like it) last week.

Read Post

Taking Work Personally

David Allen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Work-Life Balance, The Full Life, Time Management, Stress Reduction, Fortune 50, Living News

You're the one that's weird in thinking "work" and "personal" are different things. In the history of the planet only in the last dozen decades have people assumed these were different, and I don't imagine that farmers or most craftspeople ever have.

Read Post

Work Stress Puts Your Heart At Risk

WSJ | JOSEPH DE AVILA | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Healthy Living, Work-Life Balance, Heart Attacks, Living News

For those back at work after a recent heart attack, here is something else to think about along with cholesterol, blood pressure and diet: the job. A...

Read Whole Story