![]() How important is it for you to balance your work and family life? If it isn’t important, I can guarantee you will not be able to maintain the balance you want. Effectively balancing work and family life can seem like a see-saw, but like a see-saw, with some effort you can maintain balance successfully. It will come with some sacrifices, but you will reap more benefits in many areas of your life – health, relationships and happiness to name just a few key areas. Decide NOW! Start using these 10 effective goal achievement tips to balance your work and family life, TODAY! 1.) Make a ‘To Do’ List Then put these items in order, starting with the most critical. If you could only get one thing done today, what would be the most important? Cross the items off the list as you complete them, and don’t be distracted. Stay focused! Since we all have interruptions, be sure that, if you don’t accomplish the items toward the bottom of your list on that day, you add them to your list the next day so you don’t drop them. Use a daily planner if that makes things easier. 2.) Don’t Waste Time Use your spare minutes well. Take the train, bus, or carpool to work instead of driving and use that time to read critical reports you may have to review, or read your new equipment training manual on the way home. If you are going to take a break during the day and there is someone you have to see, stop by their office and grab them to go for coffee, then talk about the issue and resolve it while you are walking out in the sunshine and enjoying your java. You’ll feel like you took a break AND got something accomplished at the same time. 3.) Just Say ‘No’ Don’t be so quick to accept without probing to find out if there is another alternative to handle it. If a co-worker asks you to lunch and you MUST finish a report by 3:00, politely decline the invitation and suggest dinner or coffee later instead, and get the report done. That way you don’t have to give up the pleasurable experience, but you won’t be stressed out and working until 9:00 p.m. with your boss standing over your shoulder bemoaning the delay. If the project your boss dumps on your desk is a ‘rush’ but she already gave you something that must be completed today, ask for clarification on priorities and give your boss a reasonable projection of how long it will take to do both projects and whether you can do both. Don’t just take the project on and then not finish the other task she gave you, or you will both be unhappy. Speak up! 4.) Know Your Brain Do you know what the Circadian Clock is? It’s that little clock in your brain that controls when you feel the most wide awake and when you want to go to sleep. If you are a morning person, attack the most difficult problems in the morning when your brain is the sharpest. That way you won’t have to rework the problem the next day when you discover that the ‘afternoon you’ made the wrong decision about the budget. Your brain can operate on a short nap for a day, but if you are not sleeping enough, you will not think well or process information and you’ll make mistakes and end up staying late to fix them. 5.) Advertise Your Schedule/Preferences If you hate getting phone calls first thing in the morning, before you get your day organized and have your first cup of coffee, then let your calls go to voicemail. You will be more focused and get more accomplished, instead of having to say, “I’ll have to get back to you on that” after hearing a ten minute explanation of the latest crisis. Leaving a notice ‘Busy At Work’ or ‘Do Not Disturb’ with a fixed time when you will be available will be respected by most; whether it is a placard on your door, email, or post-it note. 6.) Take Control of Your Time Sit down with a pencil and paper or a calendar and figure out how much free time you have. Schedule and plan your activities at work and get your personal and family obligations on the calendar. Treat these personal obligations with the same respect you would treat a business meeting. Don’t cancel personal appointments unless it is a real work emergency and, in the case where you MUST cancel, reschedule immediately and apologize to your friend or family member. Explain what is happening so they don’t think they are unimportant to you. And be sure to keep the appointment you make with them the next time! 7.) Don’t Procrastinate Don’t spend time during a family dinner worrying about the presentation tomorrow. Put your mind back where it belongs. Worrying never helped anyone accomplish a goal. If you are prepared for the presentation, just do it. If you aren’t prepared, it is doubtful that you will be prepared by the morning. Don’t stress yourself worrying about it. Don’t procrastinate because you don’t like a particular activity. FIRST, do those things you dislike the most, and then reward yourself by doing the things you most like to do. Put things on the calendar and stick to the dates. Don’t talk yourself into waiting or you will just have more to do tomorrow! 8.) Train and Delegate Don’t tell yourself you don’t have the time to show someone else how to do that job that you REALLY don’t have to do. Take the time to teach them and soon you will have a well-oiled team machine going, with everyone doing what they are capable of doing. Don’t worry that the employee will take your job. If you create a functioning team with everyone performing well, your reputation as a manager, mentor and coach will give you a shot at that promotion you want. The other benefit to this time management technique is that, when you go on vacation or take that long-awaited three day weekend to go skiing, you will not have to call the office every hour to be sure there isn’t some problem you have to solve. Your family will greatly appreciate having your attention on a dedicated basis for a few days of much-needed bonding. 9.) Get Organized It is impossible to manage your schedule if you can’t find things or if you have to recreate work or reinvent something because you lost it. Take that Plan of Action List to heart and, starting today, put a task at the top of the list to organize files, or to rearrange the store or inventory so it is easier to stock or to find things. Once you have things organized, don’t let them get out of control again. The only way to justify the work involved in that reorganization is if you KNOW you will never have to go through it again! 10.) Keep a Realistic Perspective Setting unrealistic goals is a mistake, whether it is the completion date of a software project, or the time you think you can deliver that report to your manager. Don’t underestimate the time required to get the work done, you will end up working late and you’ll look bad to your boss. Be realistic about when you plan to complete tasks and do your homework to be sure that you can accomplish the task in this timeframe. Consider other ways to get the job done if you think these considerations will help you meet the deadline faster, but don’t promise what you can’t deliver. It is good to set goals that challenge you, but if you can never reach the goal, you will not do yourself any favors. Achieving goals successfully without stress, is done one step at a time. Achieving balance in your life is done one successful goal at a time.
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