Five Day Weekends an Answer to Work Life Balance
Are the Friends of the Five Day Weekend carrying this work-life balance thing a bit too far? The stated goal of The Five Day Weekend
May 4, 2007
Loving What You Do
Lifehack has a post from The Ririan Project titled “10 Golden Lessons From Steve Jobs” and his lessons on being successful. Here’s one of my
May 2, 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
First Life Balance Poll Results Are In
Here are the results from the first poll:
As the results are far from conclusive, what, if any, assumptions can be drawn from these results?
April 27, 2007
Outsource Your Life Balance?
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
There IS Work-Life Balance
“I suppose the greatest lesson I learned is how right Socrates was when he said all those years ago that ‘ the unexamined life is not worth living.’ Making the time and taking the effort to think, truly think, about your life is the main battle.
April 20, 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
Is Blogging on the Beach a Violation of Work-Life Balance?
That’s what Susie Wee asks over at her HP Research, Technology, & Teamwork blog.
You see, Susie is conflicted – she’s laying on a beach in sunny Hawaii, blogging away, and feeling a little bit guilty that she’s not able to “sit back, relax, and reflect.”
Susie feels that she may be rationalizing things
April 13, 2007
Engaging in ‘Retail Therapy’ to Achieve Work-Life Balance
Check out this post from A.J. Donnison, “the grumpy developer in the corner: Retail Therapy or Low Self Esteem?
‘Retail Therapy’ refers to something many of us indulge in: the act of buying something to make ourselves feel better after working many long hours. It may seem innocent enough, but, as Adam points out, it might serve us well to examine out motives:
April 12, 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
Blogging for Change
Looking to land that new job or brand your company? Get blogging.
That’s Debbie Weil’s advice. You’ll find her over at BlogWrite for CEOs She was quoted in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal in an article titled “How Blogging Can Help You Get a New Job.”
April 11, 2007
Work-Life Considerations for Job Seekers
Work-life balance ranks high on our lists of deciding factors when looking for companies to work for.
What should you look for in a company when Work-Life Balance is at or near the top of your list?
Determine if work-life balance is supported by attitudes and corporate culture at all levels of the organization or is simply a Human Resources department directive.
April 11, 2007
Work-Life Synergy?
I came across an interesting report written recently by Lori Herz and Arnie Herz over at Legal Sanity titled “BEYOND BALANCE: How to Cultivate Work-Life Synergy in the Law.”
The report is written about the legal profession, but please feel free to insert your chosen profession where you read the words ‘law’, lawyer’, and/or ‘legal.’ I believe their observations ring true for many of us.
April 10, 2007
What Is Balance, Anyway?
Leslie Morgan Steiner’s Washingtonpost.com On Balance blog post of March 29Th asks the following:
“So what is balance, anyway? Do you have to have children in order to struggle with balance issues? How do you find your own balancing point in life? What makes you think you are balanced — and others are not — or vice versa? What happens when you tip over — how do you right yourself and your life?”
Good questions!
April 5, 2007
Discovering Your Passion and Calling
Evan Carmichael wrote in a recent Youngentrepreneur blog post titled “How To Find Your Calling” and posed the following question: “So how do you find your calling and get into something you stick with?”
Evan referenced a Fast Company article that suggested three steps:
April 2, 2007
What do you want to do?
I came across a post today that I had read a few months ago on Michelle Medley’s blog at Motto Magazine.
In her post, Ms. Medley shares her thoughts on the classic 1938 Oscar-winning film “You Can’t Take it With You” staring Lionel Barrymore.
There’s a scene in the movie where Barrymore walks into a bustling office, and, intrigued by a worker repeatedly pulling the arm of an adding machine, asks him what he’s doing.
The worker replies that he’s doing his job.
Barrymore asks if he likes what he’s doing.
The worker simply replies “no.”
March 13, 2007
“Volunteer Vacations”
Does your definition of life balance include taking a vacation that allows you to give of yourself? If you’re interested in spending your vacation volunteering,
March 8, 2007
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