The Weekly Tutorial: Work/Life Blance

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Some practical tips for improving work-life balance:
Draw it and put the picture somewhere where you see it on a daily basis.
Zone: create 'zones' which are sacrosanct and not to be disturbed. Try (1) your zone; your own time (2) You+partner zone. No Kids, no admin: just your time. (3) Family zone: time with all the family.
Batch activities: don't mix them. Eg do your evening e-mail, then forget about it: don't keep checking it. Play Lego with your daughter and do it fully.
Keep talking. If things get difficult in relationships, then talk and talk until it is resolved. Remember: it is possibly the deepest human desire: to be understood.
Allow: give yourself permisssion to not work all the time, to not have to be perfect, to do some of your stuff. too.....

See you at 0700 tomorrow.

The Weekly Tutorial: each week, Monday to Thursday at 0700. Coming up in March & April 2007.
5 March: How to become an entrepreneur (inside an organisation, too).
12 March: How to overcome the only barrier to what you want to do: fear
19 March: How to become a great leader.
26 March: Cooking quickly, easily and healthily. And often for one person.
2 April: How to get fit v2.
Don’t forget to check the archives.