Balancing Work and Home

• Ask for help on how to better manage your workload. Your coworkers might have excellent suggestions.
• Take a lunch break away from your desk with someone and talk about anything but work.
• Do something fun today that is not on your schedule.
• List the five most important things in your life. Rate their importance to you on a scale of 1-10. Now rate how much time you give to each of the things you listed as well. Are there major differences between how important things are and how much time you give them? What can you change to bring them into alignment with one another?
• Schedule your time with the things that are priorities for you.

Strategies to Cope

• Remember these words - "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." ~ Hermann Hesse
• Take a 30 second break at least every 60 minutes to increase your productivity and give your mind a rest. Simply closing your eyes for 30 seconds counts!
• Look around you and notice the beauty right before you that might be missed when you are not paying attention.
• Reach out to someone you respect or admire and spend time with this person. Being around positive people is contagious!
• Read a book on a topic that you are interested in that has nothing to do with work.

Encouragement

• Take each day as you find it. If things go wrong, don't mind it. For each day leaves behind it a chance to start anew. ~Gertrude Ellgas
• "We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." ~ Epictetus
• "Be not the slave of your own past  - plunge into the sublime seas. Dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advance experience, that shall explain and overlook the old. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise." ~ Anonymous
• "Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."
  ~ Anthony J. D'Angelo