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Achieving Work-Life Balance: Strategies for Success

Learn how to prioritize, manage expectations, and set achievable goals to find balance in your life. Discover strategies for time management, setting limits, establishing support systems, and nurturing personal time. Take control and achieve greater balance in your life.

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Achieving Work-Life Balance: Strategies for Success

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  1. Work/Life Balance: What’s That?! APPA March 19-20, 2015

  2. AGENDA • What does having a balanced life mean? • Identify priorities • Recognize what you can and cannot control • Learn how to manage expectations

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  4. WORKLIFE BALANCE Choosing how you spend your time and energy Does not mean you have to allot equal hours to every aspect of your life Changes over time Balance is different for each person Different priorities Achievement and Enjoyment/fulfillment

  5. STRATEGIES FOR ACHIEVING BALANCE 1. Planning by . . . . • Identifying Priorities from the wheel • Ask “What’s Missing?” • Setting Goals

  6. PICK A GOAL Take a blank sheet of paper and describe your goal in 250 words or less.

  7. EXAMPLES OF GOALS

  8. Spouse: “Say ‘I love you’ each day.”

  9. EXAMPLE OF GOALS Kids: Attend one soccer game per week.

  10. Work: “Volunteer for peer mentoring

  11. Health: “Start cycling 5 miles per week.”

  12. ACHIEVEMENT AND FULFILLMENT

  13. CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE

  14. 2. MANAGE YOUR TIME Chunking time • Periods of dedicated time - recurring • Breaking down projects in blocks • You control this time • Be firm and disciplined Additional Strategies: • Be aware of your time wasters • Diminish your time wasters • Establish daily, weekly routines • Have a family calendar • Make a back-up plan for the unexpected • Develop a system - ease transition times between work & home • Use time management skills at home

  15. 3. SETTING LIMITS The most effective way to set limits? “Just say No!” NO is a complete sentence.

  16. Your Golden Delegating Tip: Sometimes it’s worth finding the money… and paying someone to do something for you! Many of us think that we can’t afford to pay someone else for services we can do ourselves quite well, thank you very much! But here’s a question to ask yourself: is the price you are paying in your relationships, your stress levels, and your peace of mind too heavy? If your answer is that ‘yes, the price is getting too heavy’, find the dollars and make it happen!

  17. 4. ESTABLISHING SUPPORT SYSTEMS • Friends and Family • Resources in your community • Others in same situation • Your neighbours • Teachers, Doctors, etc. • Activities for the kids • Coworkers, Bosses • Mentors

  18. 5. Me time Nurture activities that will boost energy and increase balance: • Hobbies • Music • Humour • Exercise • Breaks • Relaxation

  19. WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE ME TIME?

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  22. IN SUMMARY… Recap Recognize what balance means to you Clarify what you can and cannot control Identify your priorities Learn specific strategies to achieve greater balance in your life!

  23. What is your take away

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