A Useful Guide to Work Life Balance

Description

What the Useful Guide includes:

• Tools to help you recognise the signs you’re out of balance and to identify what, specifically, is out of balance for you
• Distinction between choices and chores: how your chore/choice balance can affect your well-being
• Techniques for visualising where you want to be
• Exploration of different ways of being out of balance from too much ‘doing’ to too little focus on yourself and your own needs
• Analysis of ways we can sabotage our own balance and well-being from addiction to being online to a deep reluctance to say no
• Invitation to experiment in making beneficial changes

Upon completion you will be able to:

• have a balanced life
• be aware of key ways you can be out of balance and the impact on your work and home life
• recognise the signs of being out of balance
• understand the chores/choices distinction and the importance of achieving a good chore/choice balance
• develop strategies for improving chore/choice (and therefore work/life) balance
• appreciate some of the ways we contribute to our imbalance – through our fears and addictions
• develop strategies for overcoming/alleviating fears and addictions and for switching off in order to recuperate from times of stress
• be able to experiment with new ways of organising work and non-work time and evaluate these experiments