Creating Work/life balance

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Putting Together the Pieces of Your Puzzle

• Creating Work/life balance

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Objectives

• ON THE JOB

• IN MY PERSONAL LIFE

• What gives you job satisfaction?
• How do I feel
• Physically?
• Emotionally?

• What makes me happy?
• How do I feel
• Physically?
• Emotionally?

What is your dream list?
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Goal Setting

• Specific PERSONAL AND WORK
• Measurable
• Achievable
• Realistic
• Time line
• Short 0 -1 year
• Medium 1-3 years
• Long 3 years

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Will Power

• Will power is active only in 1/6th of your brain.
• 5/6th of your brain power is at the subconscious
  level. Thus you are unable to control it.
• However, scientific research has found that you
  are able to control all 6 parts of your brain.
• So, learn to control the subconscious thinking by
  putting your brain on autopilot.
• This will enable you to keep yourself motivated!

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Avoid Procrastination

• A 50 average in making good decisions is a good
  record.
• Many people are not good problem solvers, but
  they are good decision makers.
• Learn to analyze facts quickly, make a decision,
  and then learn to live with the results!

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Happiness at work and at home

• Intent
• Accountability
• Grass is greener
• Do what you like and do it more

• Tragedies
• Moving on and upward
• Example lottery winners one year later--many say
  they are less happy

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Happiness

• Options
• Creativity think outside the box
• Appreciation
• Mindful living
• Giving
• Ethics/honesty
• Character who you are when no one is looking

• Never give up
• Dont dwell on the past
• Embrace change
• Embrace fear
• What are you afraid of?
• What would help you cope better?

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Health

• Eating
• 5 fruits veggies
• 20 minutes after eating
• Weigh yourself at least once a week
• DRINK WATER

• Sleep
• 8.3 hours
• 7 nights a week
• REM sleep

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Finances

• Goal setting
• Nickel and dime spending
• Retirement planning
• Start now
• Meat vs. gravy

• Debt management
• Family values
• Inheriting spending habits

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Prioritizing Your Life Work

• Write your eulogy / RETIREMENT SPEECH
• Re-evaluate your choices
• Examine other peoples priorities
• Role-model your priorities
• Wear them openly
• Shout them from a rooftop

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Stress Management

• 20 minutes every day
• Fight or flight responses
• Relax your body 6 -3 -6 exercise
• Baths/walk
• Pet/plant therapy
• DEEP BREATHS

• Laughter therapy
• Cry
• Touch
• Crossword puzzles
• Learn a new language/musical instrument

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Relieving Stress at work and home

• Stay ahead of your work.
• Do the hard tasks first.
• Do the difficult tasks in phases.
• Getting enough sleep is a must.

• Have planned recreation and hobbies.
• Admit and verbalize the causes of your own
  irritations.
• Face up to the fact you really cant do all the
  things you scheduled.

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Communication

• Start with I
• 3 minute rule
• Family meetings
• Needs vs. wants
• Men are from Venus ..
• Self-talk

• At work
• Be flexible
• Develop a network
• Be Genuine
• Become a good listener

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Assertiveness

• Ask for what you want
• 9 times!
• Practice makes perfect
• Passive vs. aggressive
• Personal vs. business

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Quotes

• Take your life in your own hands and what
  happens? A terrible thing no one to blame.
• Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to
  it, we can never do anything wise in the world.
• Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
• 
  

Erica Jong
Helen Keller
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quotes

• Motivation is when your dreams put on work
  clothes.
• One worthwhile task carried to a successful
  conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished
  tasks.
  

Ben Franklin
Malcolm S. Forbes