STRIKING A BALANCE. Take Time Off To Be More Effective

Written by Monica Ricci


STRIKING A BALANCE Take Time Off To Be More Effective

What do an entrepreneur, a healthy checking account, your diet and a tightrope walker have in common? They all need balance to be most effective! Balance is a word that you hear a lot about, but you may not know how to achieve it in your own life.

Entrepreneurs, by their very nature, tend to focus on creating business, which means being immersed in work, sometimes torepparttar detriment of health, family, and other aspects of life. It's easy to get out of balance and takes some effort to maintain it, once you've got it, but it's effort worth expending. Having a balanced life pays off in terms of profitability, professional effectiveness, physical health, and personal fulfillment.

If you're not sure how to tell, here are six clues that your life may be out of balance:

* You rarely eat meals with your spouse/family.

* You regularly work late intorepparttar 105174 night.

* You don't get as much accomplished as you'd like to at work.

* You wake up tired.

* You can't remember your last two days off in a row.

* You feel out of shape and/or sluggish much ofrepparttar 105175 time.

* You feel burned out or depressed.

If this sounds like you, it's time to sharpen that saw. Stephen Covey's 7th and last Habit of Highly Effective PeopleŽ is "Sharpen The Saw". He says it isrepparttar 105176 last habit because it isrepparttar 105177 one habit that when we practice it, allows us to continue to practicerepparttar 105178 other six. It's a circle. Sharpeningrepparttar 105179 saw entails identifyingrepparttar 105180 areas of your life that you are neglecting and regularly giving them time and energy, so you can recharge your batteries and can be more effective in allrepparttar 105181 areas of your life.

GETTING IT ON THE BOOKS. Don't Just Plan It, Schedule It!

Written by Monica Ricci


GETTING IT ON THE BOOKS Don?t Just Plan It, Schedule It!

Do you knowrepparttar difference between planning and scheduling? Planning is deciding WHAT needs to be done and scheduling is deciding WHEN to do it. Planning without scheduling is nothing more than listing a lot of things that never get accomplished, and you can?t schedule tasks that you haven?t decided to do, sorepparttar 105173 two go hand in hand.

Planning is done with a master list. The master list contains tasks, large and small, short range and long range, in no particular order. Your master list is merely a place to write down allrepparttar 105174 things you want to do ?sometime?. It?s a general place to keep an inventory of allrepparttar 105175 things you?d like to complete so you don?t have to store them all in your head.

Trying to keep your master list in your head is counterproductive, and uses valuable mental energy needlessly. Write it down to get it out of your head, so you can free your mind to focus on more important things.

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