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Overworked? Take Back Your Down Time

October 26, 2015 By Twila Van Leer

overworkingThe old adage that “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” is still true. Especially in today’s work format that often keeps an employee on the job long after the clock says, “Go home.”

Work can tend to overwhelm those who continue working when the have left the office. Keeping the technology at bay for a break now and then may have to become a conscious effort to avoid being drowned in the process.

Working a 40-hour per week traditional schedule is becoming more and more an anachronism. Data from the 2013 and 2014 Gallup Work and Education surveys showed that American workers put in an average 47 hours in a typical week. That’s almost an extra work day in the standard period. A lot of the activity takes place outside the usual work site.

Employees find themselves checking work emails at home or taking business calls after they have left the office. There are some ways to minimize the extra-office work time, including these:

baseball-recreationSchedule off-work activities for times when you are not expected to be at the office. Exercise classes or free gym time, for instance, can be set at early morning times. Paying a trainer to help you stay in trim may be incentive to adhere to a schedule. Make arrangements with a family member or friend to enhance the chances you will take the time. Set up activities one or two nights a week. Make it an objective to leave the office on time no less than 20 percent of the time.

Involve your co-workers in off-site activities. Set up a company softball or bowling team or other inclusive activity, for instance. That will strengthen bonds and offset the tendency to go on working when the workday ends. Talking shop is inevitable, but keep it at a minimum.

Turn off the devices. Smartphones and Tablets. They’re wonderful for keeping tabs on work-related things, but take a break! They keep you connected to the office and can impinge on family and relaxation time. In 2013, Opinion Matters conducted a study that showed 39 percent of workers checked their work emails outside of their regular work hours, and 81 percent said they do it on weekends. If you are serious about cutting the cord and giving yourself that respite from work that you really need, turn them off.

The job is important. We all know that. But the job will go better if you mix in some non-work activity. Try it. You’ll like it.

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    Filed Under: Self Improvement, Work, Work Habits Tagged With: Employment, stress, Work, Work Balance

    10 Easy Steps to Conquer Stress

    November 17, 2008 By Sherry Tingley

    Christine McFadden, a veterinarian from Merced, California went for her morning walk on March 26, 2002, leaving her four children, ages 17, 15, 14 and 5 sleeping peacefully. She had no reason to suspect something was wrong that day, but she would soon come back to her home to discover that her husband had experienced so much stress that he had taken a gun and killed all four of her children and himself.

    Christine McFadden was miraculously able to recuperate from that tragic experience and move on with her life, eventually remarrying and having a set of twin girls.

    Stress can ruin lives depending on how we deal with it. There are some easy ways that you can manage the stress in your life constructively and make good progress towards the goals you have set for yourself.

    Tim Ferris, author of The 4-hour Work Week”, a New York Times best seller, a Wall Street Journal best seller and a Business Week best seller, has some basic advice for people about time management and dealing with stress.

    In a nutshell, Tim Ferris has laid out a plan for people who are working from 9-5 and feeling like they can’t get everything done that they wished for during that time. His golden nugget of time management is to create a business working plan that is automated, where the you in the picture is completely replaceable and the money comes in regardless of the way you spend your time in any one day.

    Tim Ferris recommends cutting out any time wasters and to look at your list of things you have to get done and make some cutbacks.  If you had to eliminate one of your daily activities because you need an extra kidney, what would that activity be? His book is full of brilliant ideas about dealing with life.

    I have compiled a list of 10 ways for you to effectively deal with stress in your life.

    1. Write down or keep a mental list of the environmental stressors that make you feel like pulling out your hair.
    2. During the day, rate each situation that is causing your stress on a scale of 1 – 10 with a 10 being you are ready to jump off a cliff.
    3. When you have rated your stress a 10, ask yourself what you can do about it in the present, right now.
    4. If you can’t do anything about it right now, decide when you can do something about it and make a plan to accomplish it.
    5. The world is programmed to solve problems between 9 and 5 whether you have a job that requires your presence or not. Can you take care of this level outside of the normal 9 to 5 time slot?
    6. Use the alcoholics’ anonymous concept – Grant me the wisdom to know when I can do nothing about this situation.
    7. Pick one person that you can calmly and frankly discuss this stressor with.
    8. Ask yourself how a three year old would handle this situation and then compliment yourself for not doing that.
    9. For every stressful situation that causes you a level 10 experience, find 3 things that you are extremely grateful for.
    10. Remember that people who have no stress are dead.

    How do you deal with stress?

    Filed Under: Life Tagged With: effectively deal with stress, stress, time managment

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