Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Practical Hints on Work/Life Balance

1) The bottom line is that if you truly want to reach your highest potential as a leader, it is imperative that you continue an almost child-like zest for learning throughout your career. AND THIS MEANS MAKING TIME FOR YOUR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT (LIFE BALANCE: A Lifetime Journey, Not a Brief Trip, Oct. 2005)

2) Leadership in the family involves the exercise of some balance so that the needs of all members can be met as well and as creatively as possible at all times (Leadership in the Family, Dec. 2005)

3) How we spend our time and prioritize our life says a lot about how successful we will be personally and professionally. There are many things that compete for our time: finances, future plans, family, fun, friends, present goals, pressing projects and pushy people. There is a saying that if you don\'t control your time someone else will. (Living Life in a Time Starved World, March 2005).

4) “Instead of struggling to find our next meal, we are struggling to get our busy families together long enough to eat a meal. It is not the sparse simplicity of too little but the crowded complexity of too much that plagues our lives. And the answers lie not in the balance of our abilities, but in our ability to balance. Balance, like most other truly worthwhile things, is something we never fully perfect or completely attain. Rather it is something we can always be obtaining. The tightrope walker is never balanced in the sense of being still or stationary—he is always balancing, and gradually becoming better and more comfortable in his balance.” (Simplify and Bring Harmony to Everyday Life, April, 2004.

Taken from http://www.leadershipdevelopment.com/html/magazine2.php?page_id=5&sub_id=119

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