A few hacks to help balance your life/work

2008-10-19T08:21:00.000-07:00

Dustin the project manager at Stepcase Lifehack, wrote a post on for balancing your life/work
The top three on his list were the following:

"Attitude is everything.

No matter how much you love your job, no matter how big a part of your life it is, ultimately you need to be able to "turn it off" and spend some time not working. This is hard for a lot of people, because their work is an important part of who they are as people. This can be admirable, especially when you accomplish great things in your work, but an always-on-the-job attitude can be harmful in the long run. At the least, the peope around you will get tired of coming in second to your work, causing damage to your relationships and eventually leaving you without them. What's more, it might even reduce your effectiveness in your work — both the mind and body need a break from thinking about and doing the same things all the time to recharge and keep coming up with fresh ideas.

2. Keep a rational schedule.

The more you're trying to juggle, the more important it is to make a good schedule and keep to it. Block out all your work and non-work commitments and make sure to allow plenty of downtime and non-work time. Treat non-work commitments as seriously as you treat working commitments — the time you've assigned to family, housework, and your own activities needs to be just as inviolable as the time you spend in the office, going to meetings, or meeting deadlines. This is especially true if you're so busy that you can't reschedule that off-work time.

3. Learn to say "No."

If you're having trouble keeping on top of everything going on in your life, it may be that you've committed more time than you have. If you're like me (and just about everyone else), you don't like to refuse favors, new responsibilities, or even casual requests, for fear of a) looking undependable, b) upsetting someone, or c) missing out on something. Make a point of seriously considering any request that comes your way, and double-check your schedule before taking anything else on. When it's too much, don't be afraid to refuse — you won't be doing anyone any good by taking on tasks that you won't be able to do well because you're too overwhelmed to handle them, or by accepting social invitations that you're too stressed out to enjoy..."

For the rest of the list.click here

I take personal time for 15 minutes twice a day and listen to music and close my eyes and relax. This helps me my busy day of work, family and church.

Humbly Presented by:

Devin Willis

Resources

10 Keys to Work/Life Balance by Dustin M. Wax-Stepcase

Award winner balances life a year at a time -Joe Pyrah - Daily Herald

Balancing Your Work, Family and Social Life By Gene Griessman, Ph.D.

Having It All: Work-Life Balance - CNN.com

Useful Hacks=Productive day

2008-10-06T08:46:00.000-07:00

Here are some resources I've found very useful from Doug Hennig for the past few months;0)

Reinventing the Clipboard: discusses why the Windows clipboard needs to be rethought and even better, links to a cool tool (Clipx) that provides a multi-entry clipboard.

TIP: Compressing Virtual PC images: Craig's tips are always great and this one saves lots of disk space.

Why Your Business Must Be on the First Page of Google: yes, it's marketing, but since we're all involved in marketing one way or another, you might as well figure out how to do it better. Mike's blog has lots of useful tips and I found this article really interesting.

Evolve Your User Interface To Educate Your Users: the Smashing Magazine blog is mostly web-oriented but is almost always interesting. However, the ideas in this post are also applicable to making desktop apps easier to use.

I also think many people will find Eric Hebert's "The 50 Most Popular Web Design Blog Posts, Resources & Cheat Sheets of 2007" very helpful

Devin Willis

Useful Resources:

Some Interesting Posts----Wednesday, January 30, 2008--Doug Hennig

A Useful Hack for Storing Text or Editable Pictures You Need to Reuse, in OpenOffice Impress Presentations----July 02, 2007-- OpenOffice.org Training, Tips, and Ideas

Yahoo! News: Internet News--Yahoo

Devin Willis's "Hacks" to Prospering In Life!

A few hacks to help balance your life/work

Useful Hacks=Productive day