10 ways to a balanced Family life

10 ways to a balanced Family life

  1. Accept your life stage

There will be times in your life when you have even less time than normal. For example, when you have very small children, have just started a business or are caring for an elderly relative. There may be very little that you can do to change your circumstances in times like these. But simply learning to accept where you are in life and knowing that this is a phase can help you to feel less stressed and to look forward to the future.

  1. Speak up

If you’re feeling stressed at work, talk to your manager about your workload. Sometimes it can help to review priorities together to help you schedule your work. Employers need to be aware of where pressures lie in order to address them.

  1. Look after yourself

Take proper breaks when you’re at work, regularly skipping lunch or not drinking enough water during the day will only make you feel worse. Exercise helps to reduce stress levels so join a gym or go for a long walk after work. Taking time out to have a long bath or watch a film can also help you relax and disconnect from work pressures.

  1. Switch off

Smart phones and tablets are great for staying in touch but they also mean we can be online 24/7 – even when we’re not at work. Try to set a deadline each day to switch off your work phone and stop checking emails. When you’re on holidays try to avoid taking work calls or picking up emails. Before you go on leave, make time with your manager or line reports to plan cover for work while you’re away. If there’s something really urgent you need to deal with, try to agree a short window of time when you can respond and stick to that.

  1. Expand your timetable

If it’s simply not possible to fit everything into one week, consider expanding your timetable. Rather than stressing and ultimately failing to manage that meal with your partner or a meet up with friends, consider scheduling on a fortnightly or even monthly basis. It may not be ideal, but it may be more realistic and less likely to fail.

  1. Get help

If you’re going through a particularly demanding time in your life, get as much help as you can. There are a host of technological miracles from online shopping to the dishwasher. Ask a friend to help with errands or ask a sibling or grandparent to babysit. You’d do the same for them if the situation was reversed.

  1. Don’t be a perfectionist

Remember that when you’re very busy it’s better to let your standards slip than your relationships. Any meal tastes better when it’s eaten together and you can’t see the clutter by candlelight.

  1. Schedule time together

Lots of people feel it’s far too formal to schedule time together as a couple or as a family. But sometimes setting aside regular time to see each other is the only way to make it happen. Agree a regular date night when you have a meal together or go to the cinema, knowing that you have to be somewhere by a certain time also helps you leave work on time. Similarly, planning to meet friends after work helps you stay in touch and a good chat can help you de-stress if you’ve had a tough day.

  1. Think quality, not quantity

If you only have a short period of time to play with, then make every second count. Book times when you can talk as well as times when you can crash out together on the sofa and watch a film. And remember that nowadays it can be easy to keep in touch during the day. Get into the habit of exchanging texts, making a phone call, or meeting for lunch if you work near each other. Do whatever you can to keep in touch.

  1. Consider your priorities

If you’ve tried everything above and you still don’t feel you have enough time as a couple, then you may have to have a long hard look at your priorities

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10 ways to a balanced Family life

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What Do You Want Most From Your Life?

What Do You Want Most From Your Life?

What Do You Want Most From Your Life?

 

Wealth?

Power?

Success?

Confidence?

 

Its your life, its  in your hands

Emma Gathergood, author of ‘Overcoming Anxiety and Depression Naturally’, uses a this analogy when introducing the idea of “wholism” to her clients.

She describes a beach ball with its body made of 4 different colours. From the side view you only see one colour, but from the top you can see a little of all of them.

As we go about our lives we often get stuck with one perspective on a situation.   We may be so fully engrossed that we don’t notice anything at all and blindly go on.

Working with you we can review of all aspects of your life.  This is because for a healthy lifestyle we need to be focussing on all aspects not just one or two.

For example if we focus so much on fun and leisure, and ignore careers and money, I don’t need to point out the future problem there.

There are always overlaps between each section.  Exploring these and working though the barriers brings balance to your life and happiness.

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10 Tips To Get Unstuck in your Career

10 Tips To Get Unstuck in your Career

What Value Do You Bring To Your Clients, Your Company, Your Community, Your Friends? Understanding your value is very important for moving your career forward.

Many of us associate our value with our jobs. You are so much more than your job! Your value is based on how you deliver the work, not the work itself.

Give some thought to what you do and how your work contributes to the organization.

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10 Tips To Get Unstuck in your Career 5

10 Tips To Get Unstuck in your Career 5

Identify your goal.

What do you need to do to reach that goal?

What skills do you need to develop?

What experience would be helpful?

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10 Tips To Get Unstuck in your Career 4

Yogi Berra said, “If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere else.” No matter where you are in your career, it’s important to keep in mind where you want to go and what you need to do to get there.

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10 Tips To Get Unstuck in your Career 3

10 Tips To Get Unstuck in your Career 3

Get out of your office! Be social schedule at least one lunch or coffee per week with a colleague to start. If you don’t put it on your calendar, chances are it won’t happen.

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10 Tips To Get Unstuck in your Career

Number 2

Move beyond your to-do list and become more visible in the workplace. Remember: Talent and hard work alone won’t get you ahead. You need to be known across the organization. Build relationships and let people know what you’re doing and what you’re accomplishing.

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10 Tips To Get Unstuck in your Career 

10 Tips To Get Unstuck in your Career

  1.  Manage your career
Tips To Get Unstuck in your Career
Tips To Get Unstuck in your Career

Are you to busy managing your job ignoring your career?  It’s time to get over your limiting belief that working hard and performance alone lead to promotions.

Research shows that men are much better managing their careers. They spend 80% of their time doing their jobs and 20% of their time letting others know what a good job they are doing. Women are more likely to spend 100% of their time on the tasks associated with their jobs. When you have this mindset, attention becomes laser focused on the work itself, and the management of your career gets lost.

More tomorrow

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Struggling with your relationship

Struggling with your relationship

RELATIONSHIP ISSUES?

Struggling with your relationship
Struggling with your relationship

Without trust, a relationship misses two of the key anchors to a strong bond: safety and security.

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”

― Mark Twain

Your partner has different priorities and expectations regarding the relationship?

Does your partner see you as “Mister/Miss Right”, or “Mister/Miss Right Now”

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Struggling with your relationship