Posts Tagged ‘balance’

There’s More to Productivity Than Time Management

What does it mean to be productive? A typical definition might be something like, “Getting the most done in the least possible time.” In a workplace context, this means one and only one thing: more work. If the process for a task can be streamlined so it can be done in half the time, then you can have your employees do that task twice as many times.

In order to… » Continue

March 12 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: balance, fulfillment, life, Productivity, satisfaction, time, work | 20 comments»

Do You Want 2008 to Be Your Best Year Ever? Let Go.

Try making a single change in your outlook

Regular readers will know that I am not much attracted to the type of article that can be summarized as “x simple ways to do y.” I distrust overly simple responses to life’s endless complexity, just as I distrust simplistic ways of thinking.

However, I can think of one — just one — simple action that will make 2008 perhaps one of your… » Continue

January 9 2008 | By Adrian | Tagged: balance, guilt, resentment, resolution, revenge | 26 comments»

10 Questions to Ask Yourself to Regain Your Work-Life Balance

Last night my 11-year-old came into my office (9 p.m. to be exact, foreshadow, foreshadow), and said, “Mom, can you please get off the computer and be with me?” I should know better, right? After all, achieving work-life balance is one of the staples of the coaching diet. I turned off the computer and we sat on the couch reading White Fang aloud. I’m not sure which was worse… » Continue

December 24 2007 | By Lisa | Tagged: balance, question, value, work-life | 16 comments»

Who Am I Today? The Importance of Roles

If you’re anything like me, life keeps you pretty busy. Sometimes — more often than I’d like, actually — it’s hard just to keep straight what day it is, let alone where I’m supposed to be and what I’m supposed to be doing.

Keeping track of the various roles I play helps keep my head in order and prevent that feeling of being torn into a thousand… » Continue

September 17 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: balance, goal, goalsetting, life, role, timemanagement, work | 4 comments»

How to leave it all behind you at the end of the day

The keys to going home gracefully

It’s a myth that you will one day be able to go home from a clear desk. It’s never going to happen.

The plain truth is that there will always be work undone at the end of the day.

This gives you three options:

1) Go home, but take the work with you and spend your evening doing it. This ensures maximum friction at… » Continue

September 3 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: balance, overwork, workaholic, worklife | 22 comments»

How fear of failure destroys success

Trial and error are usually the prime means of solving life’s problems. Yet many people are afraid to undertake the trial because they’re too afraid of experiencing the error. They make the mistake of believing that all error is wrong and harmful, when most of it is both helpful and necessary. Error provides the feedback that points the way to success. Only error pushes people to put together a new… » Continue

May 28 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: balance, career, failure, Management, success | 30 comments»

Minimize Work: Cut Your Work Week in Half in 6 Steps

Let’s assume for a moment that you work too much and you’re not that happy with that arrangement. You’d like to work as little as possible, maximize the time you do work, and make time for the stuff that really matters for you — your loved ones, your passions, exercise, hobbies, fun.

It’s possible. It’s not easy, and it takes some sacrifices, but if you really work at it, you… » Continue

May 14 2007 | By Leo | Tagged: balance, career, produtivity, work, workfromhome | 16 comments»

10 Reasons to Use an Exercise Ball as Your Chair

When working at a desk for long periods of time [like at work] bad posture and back pains become common place.

One solution I’ve heard bounce around is the use of an exercise ball as a desk chair. It’s height and instability force you to sit up straight, making it hard to slouch.

However, GearFire have a few more suggestions to why you might want to change seats.
2. Causes you to frequently… » Continue

April 20 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: balance, desk, ergonomic, ergonomics | 12 comments»

Nourish your dreams regularly with attention

It’s one of the ironies of getting caught up in Getting Things Done: a lot of things, including your dreams, end up on your Someday/Maybe list. And that’s more than a shame; it’s a guaranteed way of slowly dying inside.

Putting your dreams on a shelf for the sake of productivity is like squeezing shut the tube that pipes air and sunshine down to you from your… » Continue

February 2 2007 | By Bob | Tagged: balance, dream, gtd, work, workaholic | 5 comments»

Don’t Just Add, Replace. Own the 100%

Here’s a sample snippet of a coaching conversation I have often had with executives. To set the scene for you, it usually happens after we’ve discussed a project or strategic initiative and its value alignment for their organization.
Exec: “This is terrific; I can see how it will make a big difference for us. I’m anxious to get started; we could probably introduce the plan at our next staff meeting.”… » Continue

July 20 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: balance, bestpractices, capacity, effectiveness, feasibility, Productivity, strategy | 4 comments»

The Soul of Business

When people speak about the soul — outside of a purely religious context — they’re usually referring to the qualities of something (or someone) that they see as fundamental to its identity. The word “soul” is shorthand for the innermost, truest or most obviously unique nature of whatever or whoever they are referring to.

Used in this way, the word can apply to people (where it means whatever they feel is… » Continue

June 19 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: anxiety, attitude, balance, behavior, civilization, civilized-work, corporate-culture, happiness, leadership, lifebalance, Management, organization, performance, soul, stress, work-life, work/life-balance, worklife, workspace | no comments»

Finding Time

A frequently asked question about my productivity is, “How do you find the time to do all that?” I often joke that I don’t sleep (and well, I don’t really sleep enough), but the truth of the matter is that I’ve spent a lot of time really examining the way I spend my time, and I’ve made decisions based on what I’ve decided mattered to me. Let’s talk about it… » Continue

June 5 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: 7habits, balance, hack, hacks, Lifehack, Lifestyle, priority, Productivity, time, timemanagement | 7 comments»

Sneak Out of Work Right Now

Are we getting more lazy, or we are just looking for a work-life-balance. Is work too demanding for you to be on-call 24 hours a day? Forbes has an article just for this topic, and it is quite interesting to think about.

… American workers are now connected to their offices by mobile devices that leave many of them on call 24 hours a day, as if they were doctors. But… » Continue

June 1 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: balance, life, work | 2 comments»

Finding job with work and life balance

Will you consider changing the job you like and pursue for work and life balance? Sallay Abrahms at Jugglezine says sometimes you need to do it because different job will give you different level of balance. She gives different examples where different jobs give flexibity on reducing the work hours. Then she goes on and talks about how to go and find one:

… The web is a good resource… » Continue

May 17 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: balance, work-life | no comments»

Exercise makes you smarter

I’m still keeping up with my new year’s resolution to work out and I’ve been doing pretty good. I have been feeling a lot better and a lot more in control of things–and of course you start to see results after awhile. As if you need another good reason to work out, here’s yet one more: It apparently makes you smarter. Adam Campbell from Men’s Health has written an

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May 2 2006 | By Nick | Tagged: balance, exercise, smart, work-life, workout | 1 comment»

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