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The Work/Life Balancing Act (6 unread)

• When your workplace replacement is younger, what's that like? Let's ask Leno.

  
  
  

   

  By the time you hit 40, you think every gray hair or new wrinkle is a BIG deal.  But nothing would make me feel older that losing my job to a younger person.

  In the case of NBC’s Tonight show, the decision to have [...]

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• "Don't leave college without a husband": Mom's advice causes a stir

  What the heck is going on? The women's movement is in turmoil.

  The newest controversial figure to get women's panties in a tightwad is Susan Patton who wrote an open letter published in the school newspaper to the Ivy League school's female students.In the letter, Patton tells female students that they should [...]

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• Network, exercise and have work life balance? Start Running.

  A few years ago, a friend at work asked me if I wanted to join her on our newspaper's team for the local Corporate Run. At the time, it had been a decade since I ran. But she asked me enough in advance that I figured I could train -- [...]

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• Teens plan to rely on parents: Fitting money lessons into your work life balance

   

  Have you ever been so busy and distracted that your teen asks you for money and you hand over a few bucks just to get them out of your hair?

  I'm 100 percent guilty of this.

  But that's about to change. I just saw a statistic that startled me: [...]

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• Would you wear a tracking sensor in the workplace?

  Imagine if all of a sudden, your company was able to track your every move during the work day by sticking a sensor in your ID badge. How much would you hate that? I sure would.

  Well, it's happening in a big way and many employees are going along with it. [...]

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• Pearls of Wisdom from Successful Women

  As I strive for work life balance, I've come to accept I can't be everywhere I want to be. Last week, I had to miss an event I was looking forward to attending for a family funeral. But fortunately, I have a wonderful community of people who I can rely [...]

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• Spring Break is a state of mind

  
  
  

   

  It's been more than three decades and I can't remember the way I was crushed by reality the first year I joined the working world and had to give up spring break. While my younger, college aged friends were enjoying their days loafing on the beach and [...]

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• Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg: Work life balance guru or marketing genius?

  Don't get me wrong, I  love to discuss women in business and work life balance. But I'm absolutely floored by the amount of attention Sheryl Sandberg has received on her new book: of Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead. 

  She could give all of us lessons in self-promotion on a grand [...]

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• Work life balance is like a visit to the cafeteria

  
  
  

   

   

  Not long ago, someone in one of the many work life groups I belong to posed this question:

  What's your #1 work life tip?

  There have been great responses, but today, someone posted a response that I absolutely LOVE and had to share with you. 

  Sheryl Nicholson writes:

   

   Recognize Life is [...]

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• Women feel unappreciated at work. Here's how to change that.

                                              

  I can't tell you how many times my husband has wanted or expected to be thanked for doing a chore I do on a regular basis. I am [...]

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