...How To Find That Elusive Balance Between Work and Life “Balance is beautiful.” - Miyoko Ohno, Japanese bridge designer Article by Leo Babauta I have a close friend named Norm who is a great photographer and a great person in general … recently he was telling me that all he does is work. That might sound familiar to some of you — I’ve certainly been there at different points in my life, although these days I have to say that I’ve found a pretty good balance between all the important things in my life, including work, family, and other things I’m interested in. Norm asked me to write a post about work-life balance, because although I think Norm is pretty happy with his life, he’s interested in expanding his life beyond work. I think it’s an interesting question that most of us have to address at some point or other. Work *Is* Life, To Some Extent The first thing to point out is that work isn’t separate from life — it’s a part of it. For some people, it’s not a fun part of life, but for others, it’s a passion. Either way, it’s a part of our lives, good or bad. Of course, when people talk about a work-life balance, they mean that we should find a balance between work and our personal lives, which is definitely true. But it’s important to realize that if work is really something you love, you don’t need to cut it short in order to spend more time at home in front of the television. So the key is to remember that what we’re looking for is a balance between the things we love...
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...Effects of Each Style Preference in Work Situations EXTRAVERTS | INTROVERTS | Like variety and action | Like quiet for concentration | Are often good at greeting people | Have trouble remembering names and faces | Are sometimes impatient with long slow jobs | Can work on one project for a long time without interruption | Are interested in how others do their jobs | Are interested in the idea behind the job | Often enjoy talking on the phone | Dislike telephone interruptions | Often act quickly, sometimes without thinking | Think before they act, sometimes without acting | Like to have people around in the working environment | Work alone contentedly | May prefer to communicate by talking rather than writing | May prefer communications to be in writing | Like to learn a new task by talking it through with someone | May prefer to learn by reading rather than talking or experiencing | | | SENSING Types | INTUITIVE Types | Are aware of the uniqueness of each event | Are aware of new challenges and possibilities | Focus on what works now | Focus on how things could be improved | Like an established way of doing things | Dislike doing the same thing repeatedly | Enjoy applying what they have already learned | Enjoy learning new skills | Work steadily with a realistic idea of how long it will take | Work in bursts of energy powered by enthusiasm with slack periods in between | Usually reach a conclusion step...
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...conflict, and an assessment of the conflict. Description of my conflict My conflict story took place in my place of work. To protect the identity of the individuals I have changed the name of my place of work, as well as the names of the individuals involved. However, my name...
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...Nation Well in the movie “Fast Food Nation” you are given multiple views points of the different things that are part of the process of big companies and their food production. One of the view points given is from someone that is working at the directors board and at the top of the companies chain level and how they part take in the business of the company. The second point of view comes from someone that works the floor and production part of a food industry and you see what it is like to work inside these meat processing companies and how they actually do all their jobs within the walls of these meat processing buildings. And then the last view you are also given is what it's like to work at one the low level of a food chain restaurants and how they work and serve the customers. In the movie it follows one character by the name of Don Anderson who is the leader in the marketing division of a company called Mickey's and after discussing things about their famous burger the boss calls in Don and tells him about how some kids did research on the patties used in their burgers and the burgers had a huge amount of fecal-coliform inside the meat and we all know who is consuming that meat the customer on the other end which is happing everyday. So when Don is sent to go inspect the main company that is making the burger patties he is given a tour that shows a spotless and pristine work area and efficient procedures, but of course Don is not giving a tour of what is known as the killing...
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...so they just decided to work instead. This makes everyone look at child labor in a different view. Child Labor has been an issue for many years. No one really has done research before they speaked on it. Child labor and child slavery are two diffrent things. Child Slavery are where children are forced to work against their own will....
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...vastly changing the way we do things and how jobs are run. Computers up grade things that at times make things more efficiently ran, and at times cut down on the time it takes to do a project. It changes the way we do things and makes things easier to understand with some work fields that people are in today. With some fields of work computers would not really help out that much but in my field it helps out a lot. Just from the tools that we use it is mostly a computer base thing. My major is Recreation Management. So it is basically and outdoor type of major that deals with things like forest, agriculture, animals, and the land in general. So from the classes I have this year I am learning that computers are vastly becoming a part of my major. We use things like Geo II Explorer, and the Garmin E-Trex. Those to are computer-based object that you need to up load and transfer your data to and from the computer. The Geo II Explorer with creates maps and plots the points of where you have been and how to get to one point to another. It is all ran off satellite information that you get signaled back to your receiver. Then the Garmin E-Trex with give you directions to and from places let you plot points of where you have been and store them right on it in a little hard drive that is installed in it. These two tools are what are mostly used for the field that I am going into. I will be outside most of the time for mine so I defiantly need to know how to use these and the computer...
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...Are you sick of work? Do you dread going into your job? Do you hate what you do? Is it taking everything you have not to quit your job? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are not alone. According to a recent Gallup finding, only 13% of workers worldwide are engaged. It's safe to assume that those people are somewhat passionate about their work while the other 87% would rather be doing something else. There are so many reasons to be more passionate at work. Obviously, happiness is one reason. When you feel bad at work, you live in a lower state of energy, such as boredom or resentment. Staying in that state for too long is going to impact your happiness both in and out of work in a big way. However, being passionate at work...
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...strengths and weaknesses. Once we were divided in our teams, we asked questions that could affect our team. Questions included things like, what color should the casing be? What material should the panels be made out of? Approximately how big do you want this whole thing to be? Brainstorm We met with Johnny and the problem was laid out for us, it was time for us to brainstorm some ideas and changes we might think will be better for the WWV. The group and I brainstormed any ideas we had and wrote them on a white board we had in class. After we had thrown out everything we thought could be a potential option, we went back through the list and canceled out any obvious outliers that are near impossible to put or that don’t make sense. Then, we divided each idea into each team that made sense for the idea. Plan One of the biggest organizers we had was our Gantt chart. It helped keep work organized along with keeping people accountable for their work. It also helps separate work to specific group members in each team. You were required yourself to update the Gantt chart after working on something to let the group know how much further we have. Every day in class, we would refer to Gantt chart to determine what we were working on for the day. Other things besides the Gantt chart were daily updates, not only were they good tools for documenting our work, but also we were required to put what we were doing the next day so we didn’t come into class wondering what we were working...
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...impact on the quality of how work is done. Rosen expresses many reasons why multitasking has a negative impact on today’s individual. When it comes to a 21st century average adult, being busy is just how it works, which is why we feel so pressured to multitask all the time. Though in this day and age, deadlines are always around, it doesn’t give us an excuse to allow ourselves to do inefficient, low quality work. Even without the pressures of society, multitasking still is not the way things should be done. Rosen expresses many reasons why multitasking has a negative impact on today’s individual. From her many sources about multitasking, to how she approached...
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...Everyone has their own way of learning new things, just like I do myself. One may find it easier to have things explained to them in great detail, while another may learn best from visual aspects like diagrams and pictures. Each style is unique and works for others that best suits them in how they tend to acquire information. Forms like active, reflective, sensing, intuitive, visual, verbal, sequential and global are the different terms that describe how one may learn. Each one of these terms have very informative information about what they are and how they contribute to someone’s learning style. I myself lean more toward active, sensing, visual, and sequential...
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...solution there is a lot of work involved. There are 5 major variables in managing the hardware replacement, scope, time, quality, cost and risk. All of these things need to be evaluated. Being the project manger it requires a lot of change and work to get the new CRM working properly. Project manger duties include planning the work, assessing risk, estimating resources required to accomplish the work, organizing the work, acquiring human and material resources, assigning tasks, directing activities, controlling project execution, reporting progress, and analyzing the results so that the project manger can make a good decision on how to go about the work for this project. There are very important tasks that people have to do like, managing the time that was allowed to complete the project, the cost of the project, and getting the results that you should be getting from this new system. These five major variables during implementing of this system scope, time, quality, cost and risk. All of these variables must be balanced when you are in the planning stage. You must consider the results of what you want out of this project and have realistic estimated of what can be done to reduce the risk to this project. The time and the scope must be adjusted to stay in line with the cost of the project. If you can meet the scope, time quality, cost and the risk you should be able to meet the project needs on time and on budget. The scope defines things that are not included in the...
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...to learn new things and improve my knowledge and grades. By improving my knowledge I will be able to go onto the next stage of my development. I believe that if I did not have such a desire to be a midwife, it would affect my learning by creating a mental blockage which would stop my ability to take things in and learn as I would become lazy and not interested from the lack of direction in my life. As soon as I realised what I wanted to do as a career, it really highlighted my priorities and I found that I have started to focus a lot more on my assignments. I have started paying more attention in classes and producing better quality assignments which obtain me the grades I desire. This is important since it has influenced the way I work as it is positive and made my work become better and my behaviour. A key influence on my learning is my friends which can influence my learning by distracting me during lessons which is a negative thing, however they also by helping me to catch up on work. In some ways, friends can motivate me since they encourage me to do my work and to get my assignments done on time so I am able to achieve what I want. Furthermore they also motivate me as they help me with my work when I need it instead of waiting to ask a teacher which cannot be done as easily.. Friends have a positive influence on my learning since they are aware of the things that I am doing so that they know what I should be working on as they are doing the same thing as me. A negative...
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...Invidious comparison and vicarious traumatization are two things that most people will experience in their lifetime. I know for I personally have experienced both during my 28 years of life. Invidious comparison and vicarious traumatization can both be damaging to yourself and other people involved. That is why I'd like to take the time to explain a few important topics on invidious comparison and vicarious traumatization, such as; how to stop invidious comparison, identify strategies that I currently use to avoid vicarious traumatization in my personal life, how those strategies will help me avoid vicarious traumatization as a human service worker and what strategies I could develop to avoid it as well. I myself have compared myself to others at such a level that it did damage to my own self-esteem. I had a baby at a young age, I gained a lot of weight and my self-esteem instantly dropped. Always comparing myself to other moms who had babies. I would be so hard on myself about why I didn't look like them and why it was taking me so long to drop the baby weight. It even got to the point where I stopped eating because I thought that was the answer to losing weight and looking like these other moms that had babies just like I did. I was so busy focusing on my weakness and faults that I didn't stop to embrace my strengths and to embrace the difference of those other moms. Instead of allowing those other moms to inspire me, it brought me down because of envy and jealousy. ...
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...Weaknesses | How Satisfied Am I With My Job? | Eric scored a 46, which is quite a bit below the range of 74-76. | Some of his strengths include being able to work alone and ability to do different things at times, as well as the freedom to use his own judgment. | Weaknesses include keeping busy, how a boss handles the employees and the company practices and policies. Lack of pay and working conditions also negative. | What’s My Affect Intensity? | Eric scored a 24, which is average between the ranges of 10-50. | Eric tends to understand himself and seldom gets emotional. He does not suffer from emotional intensity. | He does not seem to be passionate about causes. He also lacks emotional intensity. | How Are You Feeling Right Now? | Eric scored a 42, which is higher in the range of 10-50. | Eric is a happy person. He tends to keep a positive attitude toward life, and is not sad or fearful. | While he is happy, he did not seem to be cheerful or excited about anything. | Am I Engaged? | Eric scored a 31, which is higher in the range of 9-45. | Eric is engaged and looks forward to class/work. He is enthusiastic and finds meaning and purpose in his studies. | He cannot continue to study for long periods of time. He also gets frustrated if the results are not the best. | What’s My Emotional Intelligence Score? | Eric scored a 22. | He excelled in bouncing back from setbacks, as well as handling himself well in social situations. He is good at putting things in perspective...
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...Writing 101 Live Life to the Extreme Everyday in life, one passes by those people that just seem unhappy. It seems like they are just having a bad day every day. Normally one sees them juggling a lot of things, like a briefcase, coffee, purse, bags, and other articles. They are almost running from the office to their car, to home and then back out to do other things. They have their phone constantly up to their ear talking, talking, talking and most have even upgraded now to a hands-free Bluetooth so they can juggle even more things. Doesn't one feel like just giving them a vacation or just a few minutes to sit down and relax? Do they even know how to relax after working so hard for so long? Everyone deserves that "me" time. This is why overworking creates an unhappy life to those that do not slow down and take breaks. Overworking will affect the person eventually and almost always it is in the negative aspect. If a person is constantly on the go and thinking about only work, that means that they may not be resting their brain or getting sleep. No sleep makes almost everyone grouchy, disconnected or both. When someone is too preoccupied with work or working in general, whether on a presentation or a sport or in a big corporation, this may make them forget about simple tasks like eating, sleeping, exercising or taking breaks to rest. This all leads to health problems! Think about this, if a person is too busy to eat, rest, or do simple tasks, does one really think they are...
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