Career Management > Balancing Work and Family |
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- Getting Through the First Day
There's no getting around the anxiety involved with the first day of childcare but you can minimize the apprehension by getting prepared - and we are here to help! We have put together a plan on what you need to do to ensure that you and your child are fully prepared. Although this article focuses on three groups of children - infants, toddlers, and preschoolers - the principles can be used as a guide for any age group.
- 5 Minute Yoga Stretches for the Office
You've just gotten off the telephone with an irate customer, and now you're tense. Your neck aches and your back is getting stiff. What do you do to relieve the pressure? One natural remedy, that doesn't have any calories, is yoga.
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Heath and Fitness |
- Avoid Common Fitness Pitfalls
While exercising isn't complicated, it's very easy to make mistakes. Often times the mistakes are made because of lack of proper technique training or simply due to rushing to get the workout completed. Regardless of the reason for the mistakes, they can lead to injuries or at the very least be counter-productive to your fitness goals.
- Staying Active During Winter
With the temperatures plummeting this time of year, many of us tend to hibernate inside our homes. But, hibernating is for bears. As humans it's important to stay active through all four seasons.
- Massage in the Office
We have all read that going to a massage therapist can relieve the stress in our bodies, it can help us to rehabilitate faster after an illness or accident, but what happens if your appointment isn't for a week and your neck hurts? You are in the office and you need some relief NOW! What can you do?
- The After Dinner Craze - Controlling your cravings
QUESTION: I eat so well during the day, egg whites for breakfast, salads for lunch with fat-free dressings, and a sensible dinner. Why do I have these out of control cravings every night? I've eaten the right things, I exercise regularly and still, I can't budge the last ten pounds. I don't want to go out or put on my attractive clothing, because I just don't feel great about myself.
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Stress |
- Return to Normalcy - Coping with Trauma
It's been several years since the September 11th terrorist attacks. Still, for many of us, getting back to work hasn't been easy. Across the nation people are reeling from the emotional aftershocks. So, if you're feeling sad, distracted, sleepless and even depressed, you should know that you are not alone.
- Manage Your Holiday Stress
Each year, the holiday season seems to begin earlier and wiz by faster. When I was a kid the appearance of Santa in the Macy'sŪ Thanksgiving Day Parade marked the official start of the holiday season.
- Got Stress? How to know what to do
Do you wake up tired? Does your stomach scream without provocation? Find yourself snapping at people for no good reason? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you've probably got stress. Well, you're not alone.
- Culture Shock - Relocating
Whether moving across the world or across the country, culture shock presents one of the most unique and complex transitions we can face in our lives. As well as relocating, sojourners are also faced with career, family, social and even language transitions.
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Organization / Time Management |
- Eliminate Your Excuses
"I always seem to have some good excuses for the clutter in my life. I'm too tired, too busy, the kids are doing a project for school. I guess I'll always have clutter and I'll always have excuses." This is what one person reported when we worked together to eliminate the clutter in her home.
- The Love It Or Lose It Principle
You've tried a hundred times to get rid of clutter and prevent the boomerang effect of clutter comeback. It wasn't long ago that you spent an entire weekend "decluttering" - and now you are expecting guests in two days, and the guestroom is full of "stuff" again!
- Opportunity Will Knock, If It Can Find the Door
Is your home office a spare room full of whatever doesn't fit anywhere else? Does your daily commute end with winding your way through a corporate maze to your own crowded cubicle? Do you sit down at your desk and push piles of papers aside to create a little workspace?
- Turn Off the TV If You Want More Time
Looking for more time? Glance no further than the TV. The latest research on television viewing demonstrates that the average American watches 1,669 hours of the tube each year. That is about 70 days per year according to the Statistical Abstract of the United States.
- Enjoying Spring Declutering
On the heels of my most recent Lunch & Learn Seminar entitled, "Enough Is Enough. How To Clear Your Clutter and Take Back Your Life!" let's talk about decluttering for spring. It's the perfect time to do fling open the windows, roll up your sleeves and clear the stuff out!
- Make Your Workspace More Workable
Ever wonder where the day went? Wish you felt more energized at the office? Afraid the piles of paper on your desk have taken on a life of their own? Well, whether your office is across town or across creating a workable environment will help.
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Work / Life |
- The Shifting Sands of Life and Work
While our culture thrives on mountain-climbing metaphors, it's the desert that gets real about life and the workplace. We live and work in a mountain-climbing culture. We want to see the peak, map out a route, and follow it to the top-our metaphors for goal-setting and goal-getting our way through our lives and careers.
- How's Your Balance?
Trying to strike a balance between our work and personal/family lives is a struggle. Even for those of us who don't have kids (at least not the two-legged kind). Sometimes, work can become all-consuming. And, if we let it, it can take a toll on more than just our time.
- Keep Yourself in the Equation
Tired? Stressed? Feel like you need next years' vacation tomorrow? Stress-management consultant Frances Lylan Wolff offers some tips and techniques for reducing the effects of daily stressors.
- Flex Your Schedule - Making Work Work For You
Over the last decade, alternative work arrangements have become part of the American workplace. The percentage of workers with flexible schedules jumped from 15.1 percent in 1991 to 27.6 percent in 1997, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Department of Labor. And the increase was seen across all occupations and industries.
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