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Cutting Out the Bull: Information Overload and Productivity

As a business coach and consultant I have to be a resource to my clients and I am. I have my TV and radio turned

May 25, 2007

WORKPLACE SURVIVAL Dialog – New Contributions

There are two new contributions to the Workplace Survival Dialog: Jonathan-C. Phillips at SmartWealthyRich weighs in with Recharge Your Batteries. Natalie at LogoTree brings us

May 24, 2007

WORKPLACE SURVIVAL Dialog – First Contributions

I’d like to thank the following people for contributing to the Workplace Survival Dialog: Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends Dina Giolitto of Wordfeeder.com Carl

May 22, 2007

Stress, Burnout, and Life Balance

We all know about the physical risks associated with having unhealthy habits, including living with too much stress in our lives. But there are also mental and emotional risks associated with it.

May 22, 2007

Do You Have a Strategic Lifestyle Plan?

Every business has, or should have, a strategic plan. It endows the business with the fundamentals from which to exist and grow.

In its simplest form, a strategic plan means realizing an organization’s ultimate goals.

Shouldn’t you have a strategic plan for yourself?

May 18, 2007

Shaping a Partnership

My post, The Test of a Good Partner, from May 7th sparked several responses, all of them inquisitive and the majority of them positive. I

May 17, 2007

TIM FERRISS INTERVIEW: 7 Reflections with Tim Ferriss, Author of The 4 – Hour Workweek

I find Tim Ferriss to be a fascinating guy. He speaks six languages and runs a multinational firm as he travels the globe. He’s a

May 16, 2007

Does Life Balance Include Working Evenings and Weekends?

You can’t let others tell you what they perceive as the ‘right way’ to achieve life balance. Some might say that working evenings and weekends

May 15, 2007

Remotely Controlling Life’s Little Distractions

How much time away from work do you take? Probably not enough as most of us don’t! If you aren’t sure Tim Ferriss, author of

May 11, 2007

I Can’t Get No … Satisfaction

Are you one of the many people walking around singing the Rolling Stones song Satisfaction? You know the one – I can’t get no satisfaction,

May 10, 2007

The WORKPLACE SURVIVAL Dialog

Today’s workplace is weighed down by jerks, bullies, tyrants, and despots is what Robert Sutton author of The No Assholes Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace

May 8, 2007

The Test of a Good Partner

What makes a good partner? I’m referring to partner in a business sense here. When I refer to “partner” here I’m referring to how I

May 7, 2007

Outsource Your Life Balance? – Revisited

I needed to revisit the topic of outsource your life balance because I don’t think I was clear in my first post, Outsource Your Life

May 2, 2007

I wrote a couple of weeks ago back about personal concierge services and how some have billed themselves as an answer to work-life balance. They’re pitching busy people – business owners, executives, working parents, and stay-at-home mothers – on their services.

Their premise isn’t difficult to relate to. We’re all struggling to maintain a balance between our work, family time, personal time, and hours spent with friends and in the community.

The latest pitch I read really got me thinking, however. The promotional copy suggested that we outsource our time. Apparently this would suggest farming out tasks or projects to others to make time for what we like to do, instead of what we have to do. In our instant-gratification society, this may make sense, but it may prove detrimental in the long run.

April 27, 2007

Work-Life Balance and Productivity

Rebel Dad drew my attention to a recent study conducted by researchers at three Ontario universities that found that people whose family commitments impact on their work life are given fewer career-advancing opportunities and have poorer relationships with their superiors.

Unfortunately, in making their assumptions, the authors have misused the term “work-family balance.”

April 26, 2007

Virginia Tech – In Our Thoughts

My PDA phone cashed it in the other day and I had to purchase a new one. I’ve spent several hours over the past 3 days getting up to speed and ensuring that all my data has transfered to the new one. I also played around a bit, much to my wife’s amusement, importing some pictures so that when my wife and kids called, I’d see their smiling faces on my phone’s display.

My daughter is a bit finicky about her photos and didn’t like the one that I chose, so I went to her MySpace page to download one that she had posted, reasoning that she’d obviously given it the thumbs up, and here’s what I found instead:

April 17, 2007

My Life Balance

Well, it’s snowing here. I find it extremely ironic that the Cleveland Indians are in town playing ball at Miller Park due to the snow storm in Ohio and because our stadium offers the protection from the elements in the form of its retractable – and close-able – roof.

I’m taking advantage of a canceled appointment or two and some snow closings to share with you some photos I snapped a few moments ago, as well as to let you all know that my life balance/ work-life balance/ work family balance doesn’t consist only of work!

April 11, 2007

UPDATE: Wireless Devices Blur Lines Between Personal Life and Work Life

According to a survey of office professionals by Yahoo! Hotjobs, the line between our personal time and professional time is being all but erased as more of us use laptops, mobile phones, and smart phones to stay connected.

This observation comes as no surprise to us.

The survey’s data reveal that “75 percent of respondents say that they use their wireless device equally for both work and personal purposes. In fact, only 8 percent report that they are completely offline when away from the office and 27 percent admit to being so attached to their wireless device, they only leave it alone when they’re sleeping.”

While we can all agree that technology is a wonderful thing, our never-ending tightrope walk is to make use of this technology without becoming a slave to it.

April 6, 2007

DAVID B. BOHL

Author, Speaker and Addiction & Relinquishment Consultant