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1. BUSINESS MATTERS How can I renew my. .. work-life balance? Ruth Walker 17 September 08 ruth.walker@scotent.co.uk

3. Work life balance How can I renew my work-life balance?

4. Work life balance

5. Time Oh, for an engine, to keep back all clocks; Or make the sun forget his motion! Ben Jonson (1572-1637) You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. Charles Buxton

6. Prioritising tasks URGENT IMPORTANT

7. Work life balance How can I renew my work-life balance? integration

8. Achieving work life integration • Value your self • Value your work • Manage your self • Manage the moments • Recognise the mistakes • Recognise the “seasons”

9. Value your self • Know your strengths • Someone else’s eyes • Set out what you want to achieve/ your own mission statement • High Q12 answers?

10. Achieving work life integration • Value your self • Value your work • Manage your self • Manage the moments • Recognise the mistakes • Recognise the “seasons”

11. Value your work the superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine and its greatest support comes from not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort to make work as near pleasure as it can be.” Lord Balfour

12. Achieving work life integration • Value your self • Value your work • Manage your self • Manage the moments • Recognise the mistakes • Recognise the “seasons”

13. Manage yourself • Diary reconciliation • Learn new things • Eureka notebook • Review and plan • Keep fit • Keep friendships

14. Achieving work life integration • Value your self • Value your work • Manage your self • Manage the moments • Recognise the mistakes • Recognise the “seasons”

15. Manage the moments • Create traditions • Meal times together • Phone free moments • Hobbies for all ages • Have fun - do the unexpected • Create sense of “I’d rather be with you” Quality Time

16. Achieving work life integration • Value your self • Value your work • Manage your self • Manage the moments • Recognise the mistakes • Recognise the “seasons”

17. Achieving work life integration • Value your self • Value your work • Manage your self • Manage the moments • Recognise the mistakes • Recognise the “seasons”

18. What helps me achieve work life balance? “So here is what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your every day, ordinary life - your sleeping, eating, going to work and walking around life- and place it before God as an offering.” The Bible: Romans 12:1-2,

19. May you renew your work-life balance To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking Goethe