What would you like to do more of or less of?
More?
- Time with my family
- Leisure pursuits
- Holidays, travel
- Community activities
- Strategic thinking
- See more customers
- Develop my team
- Have fun
- Take things in stride
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- Work at a more even pace
- Improve my fitness
- Help others, share my experience
- Learn new skills
- Be more innovative
- Time to myself
- Get to know people better
- Prioritize, focus on the important
- Other?
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Less?
- Detail - doing so much myself
- Fighting fires, reaction mode
- Being driven by other's agenda
- Being disorganized
- Business travel
- Doing without resources
- Blaming myself, feeling guilty
- Being so competitive
- Undermining colleagues
- Being so critica
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- Working long hours
- Taking work home
- Running to stand still
- Losing my temper
- Meetings
- Taking on too much
- Striving to get ahead
- Having to win
- Verbally abusing others
- Other?
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How can you address your specific issues to improve your work-life balance? What is within your control? Will these adjustments satisfy your need for a better balance or do you need a more total career change? Take stock of your values.
See pages on time management, delegation, pressure at work and the section on self management for suggestions on addressing some of the above specific issues. Examine also what strengths and other personal resources you have at your disposal that might help.
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