1. A Life Plan for Effective Human Relations

2. Learn how to cope with the forces that influence work/life balance.
Define success by standards that are compatible with your needs and values.
Discuss the meaning of right livelihood.
Describe four nonfinancial resources that can enrich your life.
Provide guidelines for developing a healthy lifestyle.
Develop a plan for making needed changes in your life.
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3. Achieving Balance in a Chaotic World
Construct a life plan
Define success
Choose a lifestyle
Define relationships
Become mentally and physically fit
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4. Redefining Our Work Lives
Labor markets have become unstable
Changing work patterns have created new opportunities and new challenges
Career paths rarely follow a straight upward path anymore, but rather zig-zag paths that veer in all directions
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5. Toward a New Definition of Success
Experienced workers are finding that ambition and commitment are not enough to save their jobs
Others who gave up leisure time to spend with family and friends retained their jobs, but have discovered that they feel unfulfilled
Success must encompass an integrated life
How do you define an “integrated life”?
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6. The Need for a New Models of Success
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7. Developing Your Own Life Plan
Personal life can seldom be separated from work life
Develop your own definition of success with which to develop your own life plan
You have to take 100% responsibility for everything that you experience in your life in order to be successful
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8. Toward Right Livelihood
Right Livelihood Is Work That:
Is consciously chosen
Is done with full awareness and care
Leads to enlightenment or better understanding
Characteristics of Right Livelihood
Choice
Emphasis on more than money
Personal growth
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9. Choice and Personal Growth
Conscious Choice
Figure out what you like to do and what you are good at
Money is Secondary
Right livelihood has its own rewards–money is just “icing on the cake”
Personal Growth
Work should fulfill the need for personal growth
Are teens and children too young to know and understand the concept of “right livelihood”?
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10. Defining Your Relationship With Money
Competence in managing your finances is as important as managing your career
Quality of life is dependent upon how we earn, save, and spend our money
True Prosperity:
The internal experience of having plenty of what we truly want and need in life
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11. Mature Money Management
People who do not maturely manage their money often experience depression and personal problems
Consider financial compatibility between you and your partner
Suggestions for personal finances:
Develop a personal financial plan
Spend less than you earn
Get off the hedonic treadmill
Maintain a cash cushion
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12. Defining Your Nonfinancial Resources
The biggest contributors to a happy, fulfilling life are:
Good health - Healthy spirituality
Intellectual growth - Leisure time
The starting point is to realize that most of your resources are nonfinancial
Enrich your nonfinancial assets, enrich your life
What is spirituality?
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13. Put Balance in Your Life
FIGURE 9.1
Put Balance in Your Life
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14. Physical and Mental Health
Exercise Program Benefits
Physical fitness positively affects mental acuity, self-esteem, self-confidence, and personal appearance
Exercise increases energy levels, encourages weight loss, and reduces deaths from coronary artery disease and stroke
Wellness programs reduce work absences due to sickness and reduce health insurance claims
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15. Education and Training (Intellectual Growth)
Become a Career Activist:
Think of yourself as a unique brand
Be selective in what you learn
Take advantage of various learning pathways
Landing a Great Job
Use networking to find a rewarding position
Networking requires self-confidence
Do not cover up a gap in your work history
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16. Benefits of Leisure Time
Helps in maintaining social connections with family and friends
Allows you to return to work refreshed and reinvigorated
Fosters better long-term health outcomes
Nourishes the soul by bringing balance to life
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17. Healthy Spirituality Spirituality
Is an inner attitude that emphasizes energy, creative choice, and a powerful force for living
Frees us to become positive, caring human beings
In its many forms (e.g., integrity, trust, doing good, and giving back) can translate into high performance and healthy profits
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18. TABLE 9.1 Ways to Achieve Healthy Spirituality
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19. Developing a Healthy Lifestyle
Guidelines For a Healthy Diet
Maintain a diet that is balanced and varied
Reduce calorie intake
Cut down on fatty foods
Eat foods with adequate starch and fiber
Avoid too much sodium
If you drink alcohol, do so in moderation
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20. U.S. Department of Agriculture’s MyPyramid
FIGURE 9.2
U.S. Department of Agriculture’s MyPyramid
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21. TABLE 9.2 Low-Fat Snack Choices
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22. Improving Your Physical Fitness
Physical fitness is the ability to perform daily tasks vigorously and have energy left over to enjoy leisure activities
You do not need to become a fanatic to get the benefits of an exercise program
Develop a program that has a variety of fitness activities
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23. Planning For Changes in Your Life
You can control your behaviors, you can control your life
Identify the behaviors you want to adopt or modify to make an important change in your life
Once you have identified the behaviors, set goals, do what is necessary to reach them, and form good habits

24. The Power of Habits Strive to replace bad habits with good habits
Breaking a habit involves five steps:
Motivation
Knowledge
Practice
Feedback
Reinforcement
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25. The Goal-Setting Theory
The goal-setting process requires that you be clear about what you want to accomplish
Progress will be difficult to observe if goals are not well defined
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26. The Choice is Yours
You are a unique combination of talents, attitudes, values, goals, needs, and motivation, all in a state of development
The choice is yours to tap your potential to become a successful, productive human being, however you understand those terms
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27. nonfinancial resources spirituality physical fitness
right livelihood
nonfinancial resources
spirituality
physical fitness
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