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Achieving Balance in Professional and Personal Life
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To introduce the reader or the learner to improving his or her personal and professional development process, with an emphasis on achieving balance in the work environment.
Achieving Balance in Professional and Personal Life – Summary.☺ Because a successful personal life balancing
act is an on-going process, we would need to recognize the warning signs of imbalance.
☺ Once that is established, we ought to define boundaries and begin to establish balance in our life.
☺ Next, one must first overcome what is holding one back before one can set a new direction.
☺ Making every moment count is the surest path to living a good life, therefore reducing the everyday activities, interruptions, and attitudes that waste our time is vital.
After developing the KeyPoints outlined in this publication, you should mainly be able to:☺ take an interest in improving your personal and professional
development process.☺ recognize what constitutes everyday balance, and assess your
own life in terms of these key elements.☺ discover ways to manage self-induced stress.☺ learn to recognize opportunities in changing circumstances.☺ identify how self-esteem works.☺ …
☺ …☺ specify behaviours that avoid wasting time.☺ distinguish characteristics of how stress from overwork operates.☺ select various methods of tempering personal stress.☺ identify strategies that help overcome setbacks.☺ discover strategies and statements that reinforce the ability to
(Section 2) Setting a Course – Summary.☺ Discovering the biases and emotional traps
that may be preventing us from getting what we want out of our career and personal life.
☺ Recognizing our personal baggage frees us to begin the process of discovering choices that would bring greater satisfaction and positive in our life.
☺ In doing so, we will begin to create a new path for ourselves that is in alignment with our own skills, interests, and passions.
(Section 2) HighPoints: Shifting Our Thinking.☺ recognize the value of using methods to
facilitate change.☺ identify outlooks that facilitate change.☺ differentiate transition from change.☺ identify methods that facilitate change.☺ specify the steps necessary to carry out
(Section 3) Managing Time – Summary.☺ Recognizing many of the everyday
activities, interruptions, and attitudes that waste our time and, in turn, eat away at the very thing we should value most, time.
☺ With the time savings account therefore enriched, we will need to learn to hone our time-management skills and achieve much greater results for the same effort.
(Section 5) Committing to Self – Summary.☺ As business and family and other pressures
of modern life gang up on us, we tend to get caught up with life in the fast lane.
☺ There we often find ourselves eating on the run, foregoing exercise, not making the time to relax and catch our breath.
☺ That is the case, discover some keys to a lifestyle that will make us more efficient, better directed, and successful in our professional life, and bring a complementary improvement in our personal life.
☺ This’s achieve by analyzing our present dietary habits and exploring tips from expert nutritionists, assessing the best form of exercise for ourselves, and recognizing how to recharge our batteries in the short and long term.
(Section 5) HighPoints: Getting Away.☺ recognize the value of activities that allow
everyday pressures to be put aside.☺ identify the factors in traveling.☺ specify the elements of hobbies.☺ list the components of humour.☺ choose the factors of work and play..
(Section 6) Keeping The Balance – Summary.☺ There ought to be flexibility and
adaptability in business and personal strategies.
☺ In accepting and understanding transitions, we put ourselves in the position to take advantage of the changes they offer.
☺ In learning to recognize opportunities in changing circumstances, we will become accustomed to transitions and discovering ways of improvising as change occurs, including the invaluable role of partners.
☺ Above all, these skills will allow us to maintain our balance in rough seas.
Achieving Balance in Professional and Personal Life – Conclusion.At this point you should be familiar with the following:
o practicing an effective level of assertiveness.o scheduling to reflect values and balance.o developing positive rather than negative perfectionism.o recognizing and managing stress.o focusing on well-defined goals.o applying techniques to change negative thinking.o avoiding procrastinating behaviour.o setting boundaries and saying "No".o delegating responsibility.o practicing behaviours that avoid wasting time.o utilizing techniques for effective scheduling of tasks.