Creating Work-Life Balance 
Imagine a game of golf before work, a lunch break at the beach, or visiting your child's school on a Friday afternoon. The work-life balance movement is gathering momentum and is changing the way we work. We know the buzzwords, but what is work-life balance really? What does it mean for your career and how can it benefit a business?
Dealing With Change
For most people, particularly those of us in the fast-paced business world, change is about the only thing you can count on. To get ahead in business you must learn how to deal with, and make the most of change.
How To Get More Done In Your Day
If there's one problem shared by all in business, from solo accountants to international corporations, it's the problem of how to manage time. Alas, we all know we can't really control time. We can only control the duration of our own events. Time management is really about giving you more time to spend it where you value it most.
Developing Emotional Intelligence: Self Regulation
One of the main points of emotional intelligence as set out by Daniel Goleman in his book Emotional Intelligence is self management. He describes ‘self regulation' as the first of six components of self management.
Have You Got Your Priorities Right? A Life Reality Check
Have you got your life in order? Are you sure? From coaching thousands of business leaders, most lose sight of what is important to them. And the consequences are often severe! To ensure you have your priorities right, complete the following:
Understanding And Addressing Stress, Exhaustion And Burnout At Work
Workplace managers are reporting alarming levels of stress, mental exhaustion, and burnout at work. Recent scientific research reveals some interesting and innovative findings about workplace stress, and proffers some helpful and surprising recommendations for managers to alleviate stress amongst their staff in the workplace.
Developing Your Workload Management Skills
Few people are trained in workload management. Yet every job in the world entails balancing a series of "to-dos" with the clock. Here's the skills you need to develop that will help you stay balanced and in control of your agenda.
Avoiding Burnout
Your skills, knowledge, mind, body, relationships, motivation, commitment, capacity for enjoyment, emotions - are all of these still sharp? Regularly engaging in appropriate activities to sharpen up can help you avoid burning-out.
Do Less - Achieve More
Find your balance between Directional and Reactional activity to get more done in your day - and still have time and energy for a life.
5 Things You Need To Know About Work-Life Balance
Work-life balance is not something you achieve and then never have to worry about again. It is something you need to constantly monitor and work at over time.
Getting Time Effective
How time efficient and productive you are isn't due to the number of emails you get, the amount of calls you have to return, or the overly-ambitious 'to do' list you have waiting. Rather, it is a function of how your Pressure Pattern responds to and packages tasks and projects.
Understanding And Overcoming Workplace Burnout
Burnout associated with the workplace is a common issue. In this article, you will gain an understanding of the causes and symptoms of burnout in the workplace.
Getting Started; Keeping Going; Giving Up - What To Keep In Mind!
Getting started on our endeavors is easy when we are motivated and enthused. However what about when we have started and things aren't going as we dreamed?
A New Level Of Workplace Flexibility Is Needed
There are two magic words in the flexibility workout: respect and trust. With these two you can get stretching, and discover how a little creative flexibility can deliver greater commitment and productivity from your staff.
The Top 10 Steps To De-Stressing
Do you feel tense and anxious at work? Do your co-workers and/or boss make you crazy? Is your personal life less than blissful? If so, you've got stress.
Discover Brand You
Conduct a personal audit to determine your values and vision, your future goals and strengths for you and your company.
Top 10 Reasons You Don't Exercise
Are you too busy to exercise? If so, you're not alone. Studies show that 60% of adults don't get the recommended amount of physical activity, and over 25% of adults are not active at all. These statistics reflect the fact that many of us simply don't exercise. What's your excuse?
Creating A Healthly Workplace
As well as recognising how important our health is to our own well-being, we also need to recognise how important health is in our workplace. Staff productivity, retention and building team dynamics are just some of the benefits that can be enjoyed from encouraging a healthy workplace.
Coping With Stress
Even though the causes of too much stress are often beyond our control, you can learn to contain stress so that it works for, and not against you. Here are some strategies for keeping yourself on an even keel:
Do Long Hours Really Work Better?
Increases in heart disease, psychological disorders, decreases in fertility and the rate of healthy newborns; we're not talking about the risks of drug-taking or poor diet. These are some of the issues that have been associated with working long hours.
Tips And Techniques To Improve Your Memory
Memory isn't like a muscle, something specific you can exercise. It's a way of organising information in your brain. So to improve your memory, you need to change and re-organise the way you think and this will help to support how your memory works.
The 4 Day Attitude Diet
Building positive attitudes in and out of the office.
The Power Of Affirmations
Your belief system, like your computer, doesn't judge or even question what you input; it merely accepts your thoughts as the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Health Promotion At Work
Many employers are now taking the whole area of health promotion much more seriously. And in an era where staff retention is so important, many employers are regarding health promotion as an opportunity and as a point of differentiation.
Becoming Mentally Tough
Mental toughness is an essential skill required for becoming resilient to the pressures and stresses in work and life.
Take The Holistic Quiz
Being "holistic" or "in balance" is something that you need to work at.
Stress - Finding The Right Balance
Some of us thrive on a bit of pressure - it can improve our performance because that's the way we're designed. However, too much over an extended period of time can take its toll.
Taming The Terrible Trio
Time, technology and terror.
Getting The Work-Life Balance Right
Work-life balance has been talked about so much over the last five years, yet there are still people who are bothered by it.
Move It Or Lose It
People today are spending longer hours at work, in front of their computers, to meet pressing deadlines and KPIs. As a result, there are more incidents of debilitating back pain, neck ache, headaches, repetitive strain injury (RSI) and burnout that are reducing productivity and increasing stress leave.
How To Be A Dynamo When Others Are Dead On Their Feet
This article is written to inspire you to increase the amount of physical activity in your life so that you enjoy greater health, energy and stamina.
How To Be Really Relaxed
... and keep your mind active and refreshed so that you add joy, fun and health to your 100 years.
Losing Momentum - Why Things Don’t Get Done
Review progress – or lack of it – over the last six months. Come on – be honest! I bet you haven’t achieved half the things you intended to and I also bet you feel that it’s not your fault but that of others in your company.
Reducing The Impact Of Interruptions
Interruptions are among the most insidious enemies of workplace productivity.
Half Throttle
We work way too hard, at least most of us do.
Build A Resilient Workforce
In today's business world, CEOs, managers and staff are under great stress to deliver more in less time. They face conflicting demands, long working hours, and constant change in an unforgiving business environment that keeps getting tougher, busier and faster.
Beyond The Stress Response – Manage Your Thinking To Reduce Stress
There is a common myth today that you can almost alleviate stress by adjusting your work/life balance.
Work/Life Balance - What Is It?
Balance. Some people feel that this term is inappropriate, as it gives the impression of a weighing scale with work on one side and life on the other.
How Much For Your Discretionary Energy?
We can all lift the quality and quantity of our work in certain circumstances but can’t keep this up indefinitely unless we know there will be a time to recover.
Less Business Can Mean A Better Quality Of Life
The traditional paradigm for the life cycle of a business calls for the business owner to constantly strive to grow the business. Bigger (and busier) is supposed to equate to more profits, therefore being "better".
Work-Life Balance: Pipedream Or Possibility?
Is it possible to combine a high-level management role with a balanced life? Are there actually opportunities for part-time or job-sharing? Are employers missing out on great talent by overlooking the impact that flexible work conditions can have when job seekers are making employment decisions?
Working With Family And Friends
Is the solution to the work/life balance challenge working with family and friends? Work/life balance is one of the most talked about topics in recent years. Everyone is getting involved in the discussion ... staff want to know how to achieve it and management debate its effect on productivity and profitability. Perhaps we are looking at it the wrong way. Instead of learning to balance two competing forces, maybe we need to find a way to combine them.
Real Time Management
Time management training is awful. Focus on the wider time management issues to help you take control of your entire life, not just your work life.
Work Life A Balancing Act
Creating a good work life balance is essential for overall health and happiness.
Time-Wasters At Work - How To Recognise And Avoid Them
You can take two important and easy steps that will ensure you are in control of your work time. Simply identify and then eliminate those things which rob you of time on a daily basis.
How To Be Less Busy, Get More Done And Make More Money
So you’re flat out like a lizard drinking... You haven’t got time to scratch yourself... Your family is screaming they haven’t seen you since Christmas dinner... You’re working 70 hours a week (and that’s on a quiet week.)
The 11 Laws Of Life / Work Harmony
“I spend a third of my life sleeping, an almost two thirds working. There is no time for anything else” said a burnt out executive to me recently. His reflection is sadly that of many. A fundamental change of heart and mind is essential or this guy and many of his mates will die on the job!
Work And Family Life Balance - An Employer's Guide
Does your business employ a mix of staff which includes one or both working parents and single parent families? If so you are part of a growing trend of employers who manage a staff mix which has the need to balance both work and family responsibilities.
The Top 5 Structures To Have In Place Before Escaping On Holiday
For many entrepreneurs and small business owners, the lead-up to a holiday can be a period of heightened pressure and stress.
How To Get Fit To Live
How important are you to yourself? Do you take time out to look after the no. 1 person in the whole world? Or, does your health and wellbeing come last on the list of priorities in your life?
Taking Time To Manage Time Is Definitely Time Well Spent
Time is an absolute constant - but what you choose to do with it is an absolute variable. You can’t really manage, convert or change time. But contrary to what is most often felt, you can be master of it.
Executives Want To Get A Life
Up to 75 percent of Australia’s executives say they would like to be able to trade some of their income for more time flexibility to improve their family and personal lives.
They Don't Call It Posture For Nothing
If you suffer from sore neck and shoulders by day’s end, the solution may be close at hand and have some unexpected benefits. Mark McKeon has the answers.
How To Create Time
Creating time is altogether different to saving time or managing time. When we focus on time management we usually lose whatever we gain by completing another project or fulfilling another obligation. It’s the original merry-go-round.
Managing Out Of Bounds Telecommuting
In the world of telecommuting, employees operate more like independent contractors who have access to the same facts and information that their superiors do. In an attempt to take advantage of the increased productivity and commitment that can follow, more organizations are turning to employee involvement as a basic part of a telecommuting program.
Value And Telecommuting
The change from a machine age to an information age changes the boundaries between physical labour and intellectual prowess. In the information economy and age, value is increased, not by labour but by knowledge.
Telecommuting
This series of four articles describe some of the new developments in information technology that have the potential to enable individuals and work teams to use telecommuting to meet organizational and business goals more effectively and efficiently.
How To Successfully Work From Home
Working from home can be a most effective way to be more productive!
How To Have A Healthy Workplace
Many office-based workers do not realise that the environment they spend a majority of their working week in, may not be good for their health.
How Exercise Boosts Your Energy
Do you feel tired all the time? Australia's Human Energiser, Heidi Di Santo, discusses three important points about increasing your energy levels so that you can feel great, enhance your productivity, and ultimately enjoy more success in life.
Top Travelling Tips For The Mobile Executive
If you are a regular business traveller then the following excerpt from my brand new book “Get Organised – Get a Life” will help you.
Are You Looking After Your Greatest Asset?
It was Sunday afternoon and I was exhausted. I stared at my empty suitcases, dreading having to pack again for the week ahead...
Optimists Have A Better Chance Of A Long Life
Every time a close friend pushed himself while exercising during the last couple of months, chest pains forced a halt. Aged 47, he's a little heavier than he'd like to be, but basically in good shape. And he's conscientious about what he eats and drinks. Yesterday...
Positive Expectations Get Results
Elite sport is a unique testing ground for optimism. Unlike many life and business activities, athletes' performance is measured to the finest practical level of detail. If something is not working, the outcome is readily apparent.
Do You Work To Live Or Live To Work?
Do you ever stop and wonder, why am I doing what I'm doing?
Can We Change The Way We Are?
Optimistic people have more fun. There's heaps of evidence that most things in life go better when you have an optimistic world view.
Ready ... Set ... Go
Our health expert, Mark McKeon, believes that mornings are the best time to exercise. What are you having for breakfast tomorrow? Why not give this workout a try.
Balanced Living In The Real World
Mark McKeon has developed a simple daily program that will fit into any hectic life style.
Enjoying Your Success
According to our lifestyle contributor, Mark McKeon, success means 'not being tired all the time!' Read Mark's '3 Steps to Enjoying Success".
Up And At 'Em
Morning is the best time to exercise according to our health expert, Mark McKeon. Here's why.
Destressing
You've had a hard day, and despite your best efforts you are stressed. No point denying it, let's just do something about it.