Posts Tagged ‘work-life balance’

Freshman 15: Coping with the First Year of College

We’re coming up on back-to-school time, and for thousands of young people everywhere, that means taking their first great big step into adult life: college. Going to school, whether you stay at home or travel across the country or around the world, can be terrifying. It can also be your life’s greatest adventure.

What you do in your first year of college can have a… Continue reading

August 13 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: college, education, freshman, student, work-life balance | 16 comments»

A Place of One’s (Work’s) Own

I’m moving this month, and one of the things I’m looking for in a new apartment, even though I live alone, is a second bedroom where I can put up an office. My current place is a small 1-bedroom, and while there is a little computer “nook” in one corner of the living room, it’s just not working for me.

I’d noticed my productivity falling… Continue reading

August 3 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: home, mind, priming, psychology, work, work-life balance | 43 comments»

Go Out and Play!

We all know that play is important for kids. Play teaches them coordination, adult roles, social interaction, and basic problem-solving skills. But somehow, we’ve fallen prey to the idea that play is only important for kids. “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”

Bzzz! Wrong!… Continue reading

March 18 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: adult, career, creativity, play, thinking, work, work-life balance | 18 comments»

Confessions of a Lazy Blogger

/caption] When I first started blogging a few years ago, I went through a series of stages that most authors can appreciate.

Wow, I'm online!
Ok, now what do I say regularly?
This is really easy!
People are actually reading me?
Better check my stats...
Better recheck my stats...

And so it goes. In those early days life was simple and something like blog stats meant a lot to me. I joined a few networks and… Continue reading

January 23 2009 | By Mike | Tagged: blogging, laziness, simplicity, work-life balance | 11 comments»

Are You Ditching Work-Life Balance Because You’re Afraid of Losing Your Job?

Some people think that life balance is a thing of luxury, something you pursue when times are good...that we should work like dogs to remain indispensable in this unpredictable economy. But wait a sec. Weren't we were already working like dogs, before we added in the fear of losing our jobs? Here's what got me going on this subject: In the post Keep Your Job: A 10-Point Survival Guide at… Continue reading

January 21 2009 | By Lisa | Tagged: Add new tag, balance, career, economy, happiness, job, life, psychology, work, work-life balance | 21 comments»

10 Keys to Work/Life Balance

Today's employers seem to want more of our time than ever. In the US, the average worker puts in 55 hours a week; in Europe and other places where short working weeks have long been the norm, workers are struggling to hold on to their reasonable schedules as employers look to the US model in an effort to increase their bottom lines. Email, text messaging, cell phones, and Blackberries keep… Continue reading

September 3 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: advice, batch, lie, organize, tip, work, work-life balance | 21 comments»

Summer Giveaway: Work and Style

Welcome to Week Two of the Lifehack Great Big Summer Giveaway. Last week we talked about home life, relaxation, and generally getting things together outside of work. This week, we’re going to the office, or wherever you work, to get your best ideas about making your work life work for you. Today, I want to talk about style. Fashion, personality, creative expression – all the things that we bring to work… Continue reading

August 25 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: bag, fashion, giveaway, laptop, style, work-life balance | 7 comments»

Summer Giveaway: Living Your Values at Home

We all know about using the recycling bin and using reusable grocery bags, but how else can we live our values at home -- whether they're environmental, political, religious, moral, social, or otherwise? Sam Davidson and Stephen Moseley tackle the question of living according to your values in their book New Day Revolution, along with dozens of tips for bringing positive action into every part of your day. The winner… Continue reading

August 21 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: art, environment, ethics, giveaway, home, life, values, work-life balance | 51 comments»

Summer Giveaway: Let’s Relax!

Summer’s almost over, folks! I don’t know about you, but my summer was go! go! go! the whole time. Between the kids being off school, writing a ton (here and elsewhere), finishing up and self-publishing a book, keeping the house in order, looking for a new house (looks like we found one!), and of course, working my day job, I’m bushed. Time to relax! Ah, but how? It can be hard to… Continue reading

August 20 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: aromatherapy, giveaway, home, life, relaxation, white-noise, work, work-life balance | 25 comments»

Summer Giveaway: How Do You Balance Your Work and Home Life?

Let's open the Lifehack Great Big Summer Giveaway with a big question -- and a big prize! How about a 1-year subscription to The Clutter Diet? The Clutter Diet puts a team of Professional Organizers – including our own Lorie Marrero, creator of The Clutter Diet – at your disposal to help you whip your house into… Continue reading

August 18 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: clutter-diet, giveaway, home, life, organization, work, work-life balance | 10 comments»

Home/Work: The Great Big Summer Giveaway

It's here, folks: The Lifehack Great Big Summer Giveaway! We've got some great sponsors, great prizes, and some great contests coming up over the next couple of weeks. "Home/Work" is the theme of the giveaway, and over the next two weeks we'll be asking you, Lifehack's readers, to tell us how you manage the tricky feat of keeping your home life and… Continue reading

August 18 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: giveaway, home, work-life, work-life balance | 3 comments»

Working at Night is for Raccoons – Not You!

If you’re packing your computer or briefcase and lugging it home to do more work most days you gotta ask yourself, “Why am I doing this?” When you’re sitting in front of the keyboard writing an email to someone at the office at midnight would your friends ask, “Aren’t there other things you’d rather be doing?” When you get your paycheck do you think, “I sure get paid well, that’s… Continue reading

June 30 2008 | By Susan | Tagged: areer, family, time-management, work, work-life balance | 14 comments»

Take It Easy: 12 Ways to Kill Stress Before Stress Kills You!

There's been a lot of fuss around the blogs about the New York Time's silly article about bloggers killing themselves. It's clear to anyone who reads it -- and should have been clear to the reporter, Matt Richtel, even before he wrote it -- that blogging isn't killing anyone. Writers don't blog 'til they drop.

Rather, Richtel offers a picture of several driven bloggers who, quite simply… Continue reading

April 11 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: health, stress, work, work-life balance | 19 comments»

Happiness at Work – 12 Simple Ways to Make it Happen!

If you are a relatively junior employee at your company, though you carry out a very important role, you may not always be recognised. You might also face some of the following challenges: