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5 Quick Tips for Balancing your Work and Family Life 1. Think about your life as separate spheres of activity: Work, Family, and Self. You can't give 100% to each and every sphere so work on dividing it up equally or moving your time and energy from one sphere to the other. Try to keep you focus on one sphere at a time, if possible. For example, keep work out of your family time and vice versa as much as possible. 2. Deposit time and energy into your own emotional banking account. If you were to write a check to someone and you checking account is empty you would bounce your check and pay extra penalties. Don't write emotional checks of time and energy when you don't have it! Put some time into yourself so you can give more to others. Make time everyday for devotion and plan weekly exercise and social activities. Your work and your family will thank you in the long run. 3. Plan and organize. Sounds simple but how many really do it? This isn't your on-going to do list. Set down and put in your weekly, monthly, yearly calendar for work and family. Knowing what is ahead will help you steer your daily activities in the right direction. Otherwise you'll end up in some dead-end place and wonder how in the world you got here. 4. Prioritize. Another simply truth that gets neglected too often. Listing out your priorities for work and family life will ensure you get the big, hairy tasks in life done. The small ones frequently resolve themselves or can be delegated to someone else. Prioritizing your work and family will also help you set limits in both areas of your life. 5. Have a back up plan. This might be Plan "B", "C" or farther down the alphabet. If that is what it takes, do it. Who will watch the kids if the regular baby sitter is sick? How will that report get send out, from the office, if the fax machine breaks down? Who will you call if your car gets a flat? Take an afternoon and come up with a list, with family or co-workers, and generate some contingency plans.
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