Posts Tagged ‘quality of life’
How Working Through Your Breaks Can Affect Your Health
Have you ever considered how working through your breaks can affect your health in very bad ways? Let’s look at a sample scenario. Have you ever worked at your desk or workstation for the entire day? You meant to get up for breaks, but kept working. You weren’t that hungry, so you just snacked…
Read MoreMastering Time Management: Essential Tips and Strategies for Freelancers
This week, guest author Ezgi Aydın of BeforeSunset shares time management tips and strategies for freelancers: Importance of Time Management for Freelancers Time management is essential to the success of freelancers. Freelancers must successfully manage their time to fulfill deadlines, finish several jobs, and keep their clients’ trust. Without effective time management, freelancers…
Read MoreWhat do groundhogs, candles and patterns have in common with time management?
In one of the workshops that I present on my foundational framework for time management, I discuss the importance of patterns. Quite often we see or hear or experience the same things over and over and over again, yet we don’t do anything to change it or possibly even prevent it. Why is…
Read MoreHoliday Cheer: Practice Work-Life Balance
Defining your own personal vision of work-life balance is a recommendation I make to my clients during my time management coaching, consulting, and workshop facilitation. To begin shaping your definition of work-life balance, here are four questions to ask yourself: How many hours per day do you want to work? How many…
Read MoreHoliday Movies
The other day I was asked about my favorite holiday movies to watch. That question made me realize that other than some of my childhood favorites (A Charlie Brown Christmas, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, etc.), I don’t watch the same ones each year. So, I decided to compile a list of holiday movies we’ve enjoyed…
Read MoreThanksgiving 2022 – Gratitude, Work-Life Balance and Rest
As a part of my time management consulting, coaching and workshop facilitation, I recommend defining your own personal version of work-life balance. Here are four questions to ask yourself to begin shaping your definition: How many hours each day do you want to work? How many of those hours do you want to work at…
Read MoreNational Leave the Office Early Day 2022 – Texas Hill Country Beer Trail Style!
National Leave the Office Early Day is TODAY! If you’re not sure about the background of National Leave the Office Early Day, you can read my blog post here. In honor of this holiday, my husband and I decided to take an entire day off from work. We told a good friend about it,…
Read MoreNational Leave the Office Early Day 2022
National Leave the Office Early Day was created several years ago by Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, CPAE. This special day is observed on June 2 each year. If June 2 will fall on a Saturday or Sunday, it’s celebrated on the closest weekday. A fellow productivity specialist, Laura’s goal was to bring attention to…
Read MoreHow Does Exercise Increase Productivity? The Secret Productivity Tool of Walking
If you’ve been wondering how exercise increases productivity, you’re in luck! Last week, a homework assignment I gave to a client included walking while creating her project management maps. She seemed surprised about this assignment – not the project planning, but the walking. This might sound like an odd set of instructions to give during…
Read MoreProductivity Recharge – National Plan for Vacation Day 2020
Did you miss out on National Plan for Vacation Day back on January 28? If so, have no fear! It’s not too late to plan for vacation. This is a time management blog, so you might be wondering, “What does vacation have to do with productivity?” The answer is: EVERYTHING! Time Management and Vacation There…
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