Work-Life Balance
Accepting Help
Maintaining a living space should not be a one person job if more than one person lives there. But for many of us working moms, we have fallen into the habit of not asking for help. Asking for help is difficult, and accepting it is difficult too. Here are some ground rules to get you [...]
Why You Should Take Your Lunch Break
I have gotten in a nasty habit of eating lunch at my desk. I spend the time eating, reading blogs, or catching up on email. What I have found is that when I eat in front of the computer, I eat more, and I am hungry about an hour later. It got me thinking [...]
Drawing the Line Between Work and Home
We all have heard the stories of people who routinely take work home from the office every night. You may be one of them. On the flip side of the coin are the people who bring home items to work.
Back in the days when working outside the home generally meant cranking widgets in a factory, [...]
Get Rid of Unnecessary Commitments Once and For All
“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.” –Richard Bach
Overview
Our lives are packed with commitments. We have commitments to ourselves, family members, outside organizations all crowding our schedules. From time to time [...]
The Secrets of Eliminating Daily Stress: Dealing with Pace
Stress doesn’t always come from huge events in our lives. It can be caused in little amounts by small events, and build up to the point where it has the same impact as a major catastrophe. Over the next few Fridays, I’m going to examine some of the causes of daily stress and give some [...]
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