1. Finding Your Healthy Work/Life Balance
By:
Lorinda Lewis

2. How do you know when you have achieved work/life balance?
What are the indicators that you are “out of balance?”
What are your 3 biggest obstacles to achieving work/life balance?

3. The Formula (Want – Have) x (Importance to You)
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Stress Potential

4. What is Balance?
Living Life to it’s fullest while staying true to your Priorities and Expectations!
- Personal
Influential
Joyful
Impactful

6. Fun Facts! 94% professionals work more than 50 hours a week.
More than half of that 94% work more than 65 hours a week.
Psychological and physical problems cost $125 to $190 billion a year in healthcare.
47% of American employees did not use all their vacation days last year.
Nearly 60% of first time mothers go back to work within 12 weeks after giving birth.

9. Live Out Your Boundaries!
1. Time is precious!
Urgent
Not so urgent
Not for today
Not necessary for a while
Stick to a long-term timetable
Find and enjoy your margin
Know what to say “no” to

10. 2. Make decisions – don’t let them make you!
Vacation
What is urgent
What is important
Know who’s in your center circle
Become comfortable with “No”
Know who to consult

11. Give a short explanation behind the message.
Use empathy – “I really wish…”
Offer 2 alternatives.
Ask confirming question – yes/no.
Push back?
Given the resources, schedule, budget, other parameters what would they suggest.
Summarize.
Follow up.

12. 3. Law of the focus. Begin every day with the end in mind
Re-evaluate the 4 outcomes every 6 months
P’s and E’s
Manage your thoughts
Don’t give into distractions

13. P’s & E’s Security Wealth Good Health Relationships Fame Job / Career
Power
Happiness
Friendship
Retirement
Long Life
Travel
Respect
Spiritual Fulfillment
Charity
Education

15. 4. Start and stay small Focus on 3 – then the next 3 What’s working
What’s not working
What are you learning
Realize it won’t always be 50-50

17. Stress Imbalance

18. Manage Burnout! Quadrant 1
( We are able to change and choose to take action)
Quadrant 2
(The area that we can’t change, but we keep trying to no avail)
Quadrant 3
(We are able to change, but don’t)
Quadrant 4
(The area that we cannot change, and we choose to “let go” of it)

19. To Reduce!

20. The Three Column Secret
C.O.C.I.
S.C.O.I.
C.C.O.I.