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Claim Your-SELF! ( Administrating Self-Care). 2014 Administrative Professional’s Conference Keynote Address Chaplain Wendy J. Wyche April 24, 2014. CONFERENCE TOPICS. Technology Organization Compassion. WHO is taking care of YOU?. Sound Familiar?.
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Claim Your-SELF! (Administrating Self-Care) 2014 Administrative Professional’s Conference Keynote Address Chaplain Wendy J. Wyche April 24, 2014
CONFERENCE TOPICS • Technology • Organization • Compassion
WHO is taking care of YOU?
Sound Familiar? • Working too much, without enough time for relaxing and socializing • Being expected to be too many things to too many people • Taking on too many responsibilities, without enough help from others • Not getting enough sleep • Lack of close, supportive relationships
How about this? • Feeling like you have little or no control over your work • Lack of recognition or rewards for good work • Unclear or overly demanding job expectations • Doing work that’s monotonous or unchallenging • Working in a chaotic or high-pressure environment
Symptoms/Signs of Burnout • Feeling tired and drained most of the time • Lowered immunity, feeling sick a lot • Frequent headaches, back pain, muscle aches • Change in appetite or sleep habits • Sense of failure and self-doubt • Feeling helpless, trapped, and defeated • Detachment, feeling alone in the world • Loss of motivation
Symptoms/Signs of Burnout • Increasingly cynical and negative outlook • Decreased satisfaction and sense of accomplishment • Withdrawing from responsibilities • Isolating yourself from others • Procrastinating, taking longer to get things done • Using food, drugs, or alcohol to cope • Taking out your frustrations on others • Skipping work or coming in late and leaving early
Potential/Eventual Outcome • Every day is a bad day. • Caring about your work or home life seems like a total waste of energy. • You’re exhausted all the time. • The majority of your day is spent on tasks you find either mind-numbingly dull or overwhelming. • You feel like nothing you do makes a difference or is appreciated.
WHO is taking care of YOU?
In what ways are you starving yourself of what you need to live a rich and fulfilling life?
Vocational Physical Emotional WELLNESS Spiritual Environmental Intellectual Social Cultural
Trade Occupation for Vocation • Seek new ways of understanding purpose • Nourish your professional affiliations and connections • Continue to educate your interests and your passions. Be creative about your duties and responsibilities!
A NOTE ABOUT TECHNOLOGY How Are You Using Technology for Professional Wellness?
WELLNESS EMOTIONAL
What Kind of Messages Do You Tell Yourself? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ldAQ6Rh5ZI&sns=em
Organize • SPATIAL • TIME
Do You Like Your Space??? • Where you live and work needs to reflect what is important and comforting to you • Space has an impact on emotional and physical health • Your external is a reflection of your internal • Put the TIME IN ON THE FRONT END: Start a room/space at a time • Make the investment
Space • 1. Eradicate Clutter!! • 2. Make Functional • 3. Make Beautiful
MANAGE TIME
TECHNOLOGY How Are You Using Technology for Environmental Wellness?
The Mind Stays Sharp with Use Self Care of our minds requires that “we use them or indeed, we will lose them.” Practice using your memory skills. Practice using your speaking skills. Practice using your problem solving skills. Practice using your conversation skills. Practice your organization skills.
TECHNOLOGY How Are You Using Technology for Intellectual Wellness?
TECHNOLOGY How Are You Using Technology for Social and Cultural Wellness?
DEFINITIONS Spirituality: concerns about the ultimate meaning and values in life Religion: practices, beliefs and texts about the transcendent shared by a particular community
Spiritual Questions Has my life mattered? How will I be remembered? What are my regrets? Who do I need to forgive? From whom do I need forgiveness? What matters to me? How do I feel in relation to the values, beliefs, and things that give my life meaning? How am I honoring and nurturing the spiritual aspects of my life?
TECHNOLOGY How Are You Using Technology for Spiritual Wellness?
Treat Your Body With Respect,EVEN LOVE… Get It Moving Every Day Practice the Rhythm of Life Rest Reflection Rest Engagement Rest
Just Do It Rest Daily Exercise Daily Hire a personal trainer Get physical therapy Eat Healthy food Take your meds 45
Do What Your Physician Tells You Schedule check-ups Write down the information you get about your health. KEEP GOOD RECORDS EVERYWHERE!! 46
TECHNOLOGY How Are You Using Technology for Physical Wellness?
Vocational Physical Emotional WELLNESS Spiritual Environmental Intellectual Social Cultural