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The Work/Life Balancing Act (3 unread)

• 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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• Do collaboration and flexibility go together?

  Think about the last Pixar film you watched. Pretty creative, wasn't it?

  Such creativity usually comes from collaboration and that usually comes from face to face interaction.That's collaboration is kind of hard to do if you work from a home office.

  At the same time, workers like me want work [...]

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• Do you need an electronic curfew?

  
  
  

  As someone who has personally fought the battle of electronic devices, I am absolutely convinced that powering down an hour before tucking in leads to a better night's rest. 

  But as much as I'm an advocate for electronic curfews, I'm also wondering if it's realistic to give ourselves [...]

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• Groupon CEO Tweets Firing. Is this the new direction of departures?

  
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  If you got fired, would you tweet about it? 

  Yesterday afternoon, Andrew Mason, founder and CEO of Groupon, tweeted a letter to his employees that he was fired as the head of the company. Groupon has been under scrutiny lately due to falling stock prices and meager results, and [...]

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