Regain Your Balance: At Work, with Family, in Life
Identifying Your Goals and Ordering Your Priorities
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In summary, you can adjust and tweak your plan along the way, as you need to make changes, but getting the plan in place is the first and most critical step. The important thing is to get started:
*Sit down with a pencil and paper, or at your computer, and gather your thoughts and expectations.*Talk to your family, your boss, your co-workers and your friends and get their thoughts. *Then set your goals!
*Make the plan and move forward. *Adjust the plan along the way if you need to do so and be realistic about what you can accomplish and how long it will take.
*Keep the lines of communication open and keep people informed about your goals and your progress and about what is important to you. *Learn to manage your time better so you can leverage the free time you have to use it as you wish.
*Schedule and keep commitments with your family and friends. *Find ways to improve your productivity and learn to transition from work to home and back again so that you are truly ‘present’ in every situation and not spinning your wheels thinking about other things.
*Don’t get distracted! *Use self-discipline and stay committed. Pay attention and listen to others and do it right the first time so you don’t have to do it over again!
*Learn to handle and diffuse stress and eliminate it from your life wherever you can. *Be optimistic and positive.
*Exercise your mind and body by finding a practice that’s right for you. *Understand that work/life balance is key to your health and happiness and it can actually make you more productive at work and give you a better quality of time with your family and friends.
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Regain Your Balance: At Work, with Family, in Life— Identifying Your Goals and Ordering Your Priorities answers the challenge of finding, preserving, and enhancing a healthy and sustainable balance between one’s work and one’s personal life with the field-tested insights of a consulting psychologist and executive coach. Mark Sirkin, PhD, distilling the results of three decades of interactions with people in diverse circumstances and stages in their careers, presents them in this guide.
Regain Your Balance: At Work, with Family, in Life makes approachable the task of connecting this guide to one’s own particular circumstances. The work’s conversational presentation encourages the goal of balance, discusses the nature of a healthy work-family equilibrium, outlines the steps for creating a plan, encourages putting the plan to work, and suggests methods for assuring that one’s efforts are sustainable and bear fruit.
Are you looking at yourself in the mirror and wondering how you came to be where you are? Do you sense that the dynamic balance between your labor and your leisure is out of whack? Would you find yourself in Dr. Sirkin’s observation, “Today, all generations, in all types of jobs are looking for balance, less stress, and more time with family and friends. Like you, these people are willing to give it their all when they are at work. They expect to work hard, but in exchange, they want a life”? If you do, then Regain Your Balance: At Work, with Family, in Life is the book for you.
About the Author
Mark Sirkin, Ph.D., a psychologist, psychotherapist, and executive coach, is the director of Mental Health Counseling at Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York. A respected lecturer, he has published numerous articles and The Secret Life of Corporations. He and Meri, his wife, have three children and live in White Plains, NY.