1. Work/Life Harmony Looking after No. One Ruth Handy
IPPN Conference 2008
Work/Life Harmony
Looking after No. One
Ruth Handy

4. What are your Values? What is most important to you?
Family
Health
Achievement
Helping others
Affection
Challenge
How much time do you give to them?

5. Time Management Sins Procrastination (Manana Syndrome)
Allowing the tyranny of the urgent
Taking on/promising too much/saying ‘Yes’
Not making lists/doing what comes to hand
Not setting targets
Untidy desk/pc
Allowing others to steal your time

6. Good time managers
Organise and execute around balanced priorities

7. Questions to ask myself
Where should the bulk of my time be going?
Where is it going?
Do I ‘waste’ time?
Are there techniques that I should be using to help me?
Does my ’efficiency’ sometimes get in the way of my ‘effectiveness’?

8. Some calls, some mails, popular activitiesN
Urgent 1.
Crises
Pressing problems
Deadlines
Not Urgent 2.
Planning, Thinking, Preventive maintenance, Relationships 3.
Interruptions
Some calls, some mails, popular activities
Some meetings 4.
Trivia, ‘busy’ work’, some mail,
Time wasters,
Pleasant activities U N I M P O R T A
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9. Ways to ‘make’ time Say ‘No’ Delegate Work with your secretary
Plan, prioritise and organise with targets
Don’t dither, be polite but firm
Don’t be a perfectionist
Get a clock
Be firm with ‘droppers in’.

10. Use the saved time for you
Spend 30 minutes doing something you really like
Eat lunch
Find something to laugh at
Pamper yourself occasionally
Spend more time with your family
Take up a hobby – unrelated to school
Meet up with non-school friends
Get a dog!

11. Other Tips Try to have 30 minutes between school & home
When you reach home, shower and change into relaxing clothes
Keep the school/home boundary relatively impermeable (separate mobiles)
Educate parents & staff about your
availability
Build up your stress resilience

12. Enjoy the present
First I was dying to finish school and start college.
And then I was dying to finish college and start working.
And then I was dying to marry and have children.
And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school so I could return to work.
And then I was dying to retire .
And now I am dying …..And I suddenly realise I forgot to live.

13. READ to avoid Stress
R = relaxation
E = exercise
A = attitude
D = diet

14. Have a GLAD attitude G = Get rid of guilt
L = Laugh & Look to your friends
A = Accept limitations/adjust goals
D = Develop a hobby

15. Give me the strength to change
what I can,
The patience to accept what I
cannot change,
And the wisdom to know
the difference.