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Busyness or Business�It�s a Matter of Balance

You are commuting on freeways that are getting more congested and now, icy. Your cell phone continues to ring and interprets your day and maybe, your night. You work through lunch as a time saver. You were gone for two days and have numerous emails waiting for you. You have a dinner meeting, but it means you will miss your daughter�s basketball game. Can you relate? These auxiliary ...

New Middle Aged Group Wants To Work From Home In Their Fifties And Sixties

People in there fifties and sixties are giving up the corporate rat race to work at home. Many of them are opting to start their own work at home businesses. A lot of senior executives looking for an alternative to what they consider to be early retirement are starting their own home businesses on the Internet. Similarly, but for different reasons, many former so called blue collar workers ...

Developing Your Personal Best

The idea of your PB is the idea of meeting and exceeding your own best performance and standards. Athletes tend to judge their own performances by how close to their PB it is. And, it can be a huge source of disappointment to fall below this in a major championship. Your PB can be used as a tool to navigate your own performances and expectations. What is your PB? It�s an acknowledgment that in ...

When is Retirement not Retirement?

My Father considered retirement to be the time when he stopped working and started to enjoy life. Unfortunately, he did not live to see that happy time. So, as I ran past my half century mark and my fatigue and frustration with three hours a day in traffic grew, I decided to "retire". I was not looking to completely stop working and I certainly needed some income, but I decided to slow down my ...

Work At Home Dads: Are You Getting Rich?

Are you getting rich on the Internet? The Chances are that if you are reading this article, you are not quite there yet, but would like to be. The good news is that you can make a substantial income working from home. Here is a list of tips that can help you find true wealth working from home. Never forget that part of finding true wealth is to be found in the not so simple act of ...

Work At Home Dads: Are You Getting Respect?

Okay, so you�re the one elected to stay home and watch the kids, but does that mean you can�t earn a good living working from home at the same time? You can if you know what to do. Don�t you want to feel more productive? You are entitled to be a whole person and live your own life. Are you ready to make a great part time income working from home? Today, many men are staying home and doing ...

Work At Home Moms: So You�re Having A Baby

I know it isn�t easy. Here you are expecting and needing to be pampered and appreciated, and you have to start thinking about how you are going to earn a good income working from home and taking care of a new baby at the same time. As if having a baby wasn�t enough of a life-changing event, you are going to have to change the way you work, and when you work, and where you work. You are ...

Death by Overwork: Motivation for Work/Life Balance

The Japanese have a word for death by overwork: Karoshi. A recent survey said 40 percent of all Japanese workers fear that they will actually work themselves to death. Karoshi is not my idea of success. Sure, I talk about �Never Settling for Success,� but that�s not a prescription for becoming an obsessive or a workaholic. That type of single-mindedness is more likely to lead to burnout ...

You Need a Vacation!

Our friends overseas know something that all of us have yet to embrace: vacation works. A Boston College study found that employees who take a higher number of vacation days to just relax and enjoy themselves feel rejuvenated and less overwhelmed when they return to work. Yet, according to Expedia.com, an astounding 51.2 million Americans will leave some of their vacation � an average of ...

Getting Back on the Career Track

Would you like to return to the work world but are concerned about how to find an opportunity that will allow you to fulfill your family or other non-work obligations, nervous about how to �market yourself� to potential employers, or unsure about what type of work you want to do? We know how you feel. We took time out to be home with our children, and then relaunched our careers years later. ...

Life Should Be Enjoyed

Life is short. It may not always seem that way to people who feel stuck in situations they dislike. There are almost assuredly going to be times when life can be difficult, undesired events take place, and unexpected issues surface that need to be addressed. Finding effective ways to cope with the hardships of life enable people to appreciate the positive moments of life more deeply. Those ...

Balance

The process of achieving balance over various needs and wants lasts a lifetime. It is important to meet needs so one can begin to fulfill desires according to priorities. People have unique desires and make choices about how to best spend their time. Areas of desire that frequently have a large amount of significance for individuals include relationships, leisure activities, entertainment, ...

Reality Check: What You Should Know About Working from Home

If you think telecommuting just means rising late, shuffling to your home office in slippers, and figuring out your schedule over coffee and a box of doughnuts, you might have the wrong idea about working from home. True, such personal freedom is one of the perks of working from home, but it is a benefit appreciated only by those who understand the realities of working from home.

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Setting Professional and Personal Goals

Creating a balance between work and home is a tall order. Late nights on the job don't mix with your child's soccer season. Extra work over the holidays doesn't bode well for family traditions. It's a tough, but popular, ambition to have--reaching equilibrium between your professional and personal identities. And it can be done with some planning and forward thinking.

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Family Matters

Working parents are a common occurrence in today's labor force. Many moms and dads are working hard to balance their personal and professional responsibilities, juggling overtime hours and big reports with soccer games and babysitters to find the best game plan. How can you make it work for you? Consider these three basic questions when working on a strategy with your family.

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Devising Effective Work/Life Programs

It's ironic, but to hear Sandra Burud tell it, having an early and fervent advocate may be one of the worst beginnings for a company's work/life program.

The fan - usually from HR - sells top management on one or more initiatives, and they're implemented. But then he or she moves on to another job or, worse still, another company. The orphan programs, which management never really ...

Balancing Work and Life

The Internet has transformed the way we do business, and accountants are witnessing the evolution of the financial world every day. The accounting world is also experiencing other dramatic changes; the XYZ credential is being developed, the AICPA is working on a national web portal and the SEC is developing new standards for auditor independence.

There has been another significant ...