Work/life Balance Articles

1). Not Enough Time in the Day? By : Liane Bate
If your life feels somewhat chaotic, have no fear, because there is hope for those who understand time, manage time, and take the appropriate actions to free up time!
Article Related to: time management, personal effectiveness, work-life balance, priorities

2). Why Work/Life Balance Doesn't Work By : Steve Holloway
I can’t help feeling that using the phrase ‘work/life balance’ reinforces the problem it seeks to address. To describe a need to balance work and life implies that work is not part of ‘life’. If that’s the case then approx 50% of the average persons hours on earth are devoted to non-life – surely that’s dead. People are not asking ‘how can I balance.
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3). Simple Stress-Busting Secrets to Creating a First Class Support Team In Any Business By : Christiane Holbrook
Stress and an occasional sense of overwhelm is a normal by-product of a successful business. Yes, we are lucky to have all the opportunities that the business world presents to us. And yes, at times, it is impossible to make wise use of our time and resources. So, the result is inevitably: Stress! We differentiate between primary, situational, short-lived stress and long-term, accumulated levels of stress.
Article Related to: work/life balance, career success, business success, entrepreneurship, stress management, productivity, overwhelm, employee retention

4). The Interim Management Lifestyle By : JHadley
Interim management isn’t the career for you if you don’t like challenge and change. But for those of us who love both, it brings a rich variety of enhancing and intensive experiences: exposure to different industries, products and processes, and a variety of organisational structures, and cultural styles and the opportunity to establish an outstanding “track record for delivery”, added to which interim managers love not having to go through rounds of appraisals only to be told that: “unfortunately budgets for salary increases are limited”.
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5). How to Eliminate Stress Instantly, Effortlessly In 10 Seconds! By : Christiane Holbrook
No matter where you find yourself on your career journey, you know by now that overwhelm is a natural by-product of success. Whether you are employed, you are in transition to your own business, you just started off on your entrepreneurial journey, you have been in it for a while and you have an established business, you deal with stress every day (sometimes every minute) Yes, sometimes, especially at the beginning of your business journey, stress is good.
Article Related to: work/life balance, career success, business success, entrepreneurship, stress management, productivity, overwhelm

6). Why Working Mums (and Dads) sometimes have to be Selfish By : Annett Tate
Is your creativity drying up as you come under more and more pressure from work and the family? Sometimes, you just have to put yourself first.
Article Related to: parenting, creativity, work-life balance

7). Work Life Balance: The Gift Of Too Much To Do By : Molly Gordon
On any given day I generally have more than enough to do. Sometimes I have so much to do that I hardly know where to begin. Yet the fact is that most weeks I work less than 40 hours. People are always asking me how I get everything done. How do I find the time to read so much? How can I travel and attend trainings while keeping up with my practice?.
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8). How To Get Your Complementary Therapy Business Off To A Flying Start By : Joy Healey
All too often newly qualified complementary therapists discover that passing their therapy exams was the easiest part of their new career. Learn about the two common traps most fall into - and how YOU can avoid them.
Article Related to: coaching, new business, startup, start-up, work-life balance, complementary therapy, therapist

9). 10 Hot Tips On How To Cope With The Prospect Of Redundancy. By : mary lennox
It used to be the case that people could get a job and expect to stay there for as long as they wished. That is no longer the case and we should realistically anticipate 3 or 4 job changes in our working lives. When we are faced with redundancy, we often feel as though we are out of control. Something is happening to us that we don’t want and we feel hurt, sad, anxious and resistant to that change.
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10). Top Ten Tips to Beat Stress By : Joy Healey
We have access to time- and labour-saving devices beyond the dreams of any previous generation. Yet poor time-management skills and resultant stress seem a more common problem than ever before. Try these top ten tips to beat stress.
Article Related to: stress, time management, time-management, coaching, work-life balance, relax

11). Juggling Your Online Business With Your Offline Career By : Liane Bate
I'm going to give you a sneak peek of my life as an online business-person so far, tell you how I have been juggling this with my regular 9-5 offline career, and how you can do this too if you want to!
Article Related to: work-life balance, make money online, career, work from home, multi-tasking, home business

12). Work Life Balance: 9 Quick Tips for Managing Overwhelm By : Molly Gordon
If you feel that your work life balance is teetering on the edge; isn't it time to make changes before the problems overwhelm you? Here are my secrets for dealing with overwhelm. 1. Everything is perfect, and there is room for improvement and regaining work life balance. It takes time and energy to resist reality. The foundation managing overwhelm is to accept what is and take it from there.
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13). Women Entrepreneurs Prove It’s Not Just A Man’s World By : Tim Knox
I had the honor of speaking this week at a women's business association luncheon on the topic of entrepreneurship. When I mentioned to my wife the day before that I was speaking to group of women entrepreneurs she asked, "Why on earth would they ask you to speak?" In her defense, my dear wife has no idea what I do for a living. She's never read a single one of the several hundred columns I've written.
Article Related to: womentrepreneurs, women business, employment, intuition, work-life balance, lifestyle

14). Three Budget Essentials for Your Growing Business By : Paul Sutherland
If you are expecting only information regarding your business assets and liabilities, guess again. Running a successful business takes much more than excellent money management. Although one of the three...
Article Related to: work/life balance, small business, medium sized business

15). Balance your home based business By : Adrienne Davis
Millions of people long to work from home, and the lucky few manage to achieve their ambition. Once you have realized the dream, it’s important to maintain the work-life balance or you could find your effectiveness declines. Working at home still has its own pitfalls: you’ve left the day job and you’re no longer shackled to the desk by your evil boss.
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16). How You Can Really Work At Home Even With Distractions By : Leon Edward
At times, when a work at home person sets his or her schedule, they get side tracked. Tips on how to still focus on maximizing your home business effectivity...
Article Related to: home business, worklife balance, work at home, family, women in home business

17). Your Business Or Your Life By : Laurie Weiss
There are always more things to do than you have the time or money to manage. How you are able to cope with this situation determines whether you have a chance of becoming a successful business owner.
Article Related to: work-life balance, prioritizing, goals, home business, burnout

18). The Power of Positive Psychology By : Paul Sutherland
Allow yourself enjoyment, engagement and meaning with the power of positive psychology. Any small business endeavor requires a lot of work, countless hours, lack of sleep, and a myriad of other sacrifices...
Article Related to: business, small business, medium sized business, work/life balance

19). Work Life Balance Tips For Busy People By : Bill Lee-Emery
This article offers compelling reasons why work-life balance is crucial for busy people and the dangers faced if this issue is ignored. The article will serve as a starting point and contains a real life story (perhaps similar to yours), statistics from the USA to Australia and finishes with a relevant and personal question
Article Related to: work-life balance, life balance, stress, life-work balance, executive health

20). Instant Work Life Balance Recovery Strategies for Busy People By : Bill Lee-Emery
Have you ever experienced making silly mistakes when you are tired and lack concentration? That can put you even more behind schedule and add even more pressure. The tendency is to then work even harder with less physical, mental and emotional resources. It is a recipe for disaster and can wreak havoc with any plan for a healthy work life balance. Here is what to do
Article Related to: work-life balance, health, recovery strategies, time management, productivity

21). Balance Or Burnout: It Is Your Choice! By : Nina Cherry
Inspiring women to redesign their lives with the priority of self-care: taking time out to rest, rejuvenate and have fun for better balance in life and longevity.
Article Related to: self care, stress relief, life coaching for women, balance, work-life balance

22). How NLP and Metaphysics Can Improve the Emotional Wellbeing of Employees By : Piercarla Garusi
I am sure you would agree that the most important resource of a business is not really the product or service, nor in the customers; it is actually in the employees, without whom the business would not exist. And if the employees are not well then the performance decreases, and with it the productivity. Is there something we can do that is really effective and lasting?
Article Related to: corporate wellbeing, stress, wellbeing, work/life balance, wellbeing at work