LiveWorkBalance

This week I’ve come across a few articles that struck a chord with me and thought I’d share them.

A key component to a balanced workday, and a balanced life, is pace. Now, whether you work at a consistent pace, interspersing periods of work with periods of relaxtion, or you’re a member of the burst productivity school, working to a pace that suits your preferences and abilities allows you to remove stress and assists in maintaining balance. For a few tips on how to do this, take a look at LifeDev’s article, Pacing Your Work Day: Are You Stopping to Smell the Roses?

A major challenge in maintaining your ideal pace can be the amount of work you have on your plate. While we objectively know that taking breaks allows us to recharge and provide a net increase in productivity, if we’ve always got inboxes with 10 cm stacks of paper, we’re going to have a hard time taking those breaths.

FreelanceSwitch has a great article on Learning When to Say No. While I and approximately 18.7 million other people have written on this topic, one of the things that FreelanceSwitch’s article does to really set itself apart is to give you three basic criteria to judge opportunities by. While they take the view of evaluating potential freelance gigs, I think it’s easily adaptable to just about any situation.

Some of you might be wondering what everyone’s favourite constant is, especially since most people aren’t a big fan of death and taxes. Well, that leaves us with change. Change can be challenging, but one of the things I’ve found is that it’s going to happen whether you do anything or not, so taking a proactive stance towards it gives you an advantage that many won’t have.

Personal change can be the most challenging of all, but also the most effective at changing directions to get what you want. With that in mind, take a look at Life Optimizer’s post Top 10 Things You Should Change in Your Life to Get What You Want. It takes you things like changing your priorities, your motivations, and even your spending.

Enjoy!

Adam

Posted on June 26th, 2008 under Quick and Dirty • Tags: change, choice, pace, saying no, stress. •  Print This Post •  Email This Post • RSS 2.0 feed • Leave a response, or trackback