It’s Our Life! Time Management or Life Management What does it Mean to Have a Balanced Life?

Objectives

• Define Life Balance • Identify issues related to balance • Explore options for improving

effectiveness • Select one or more strategies to

experiment with • Implement and evaluate

Flip Charts Exercise

• For leisure, I need…. • My relationships thrive when…. • For my personal and professional growth, I

need….

Balance

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It’s Our Life! Time Management or Life Management What does it Mean to Have a Balanced Life?

Issues Related To Balance

• What are your Values? – What’s important to you? – What makes you happy ?

• What are the Barriers? – time, stress, dual career family, lack of

support from family, supervisor, peers… • Stategies

What does Life Balance mean to YOU?

Life Balance

Wheel of Life

WHEEL OF LIFE INSTRUCTIONS The 8 sections in the Wheel of Life represent balance. Please change, split or rename any category so that it’s meaningful and represents a balanced life for you. Next, taking the centre of the wheel as 0 and the outer edge as 10, rank your level of satisfaction with each area out of 10 by drawing a straight or curved line to create a new outer edge (see example) The new perimeter of the circle represents your ‘Wheel of Life’. Is it a bumpy ride?

Balance is…

… a process of "being in" your life -- whatever it looks like – and finding the support you need to enjoy each and every hectic day

Strategies

• Time manage (86,400) • Learn to say “NO!” (You CAN say, “I’ll get

back to you & buy yourself time to think) • You can also say “NO” by saying “Yes!” to

something else. (Keep positive!) • Appreciate

Strategies

• Personalize your workspace • Eat nutritiously • Try something new • Sleep – (8hrs/night) • Breathe deeply and often

More thoughts…

• Look at your expectations. Are they reasonable?

• Deal with problems as they appear. • Let it GO! • Make time for FUN! • Develop & maintain supportive

relationships • Stay healthy!

Serenity Prayer

Grant me the Serenity To accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can,

And the Wisdom to know the difference.

Strategies

Acceptance Things I cannot change… How can I accept the things I cannot change?

Courage Things I have control over… The steps I can take are…

Work Life Balance Video

Life is not…

…about waiting for the storms to pass… it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.