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Manage Your Work,
Manage Your Life
Top choices to succeed at work and in life.
by Gina Mostert, Business Strategist
with Inovizion
Feeling stretched in all directions? Overwhelmed by all the demands
on your time and energy at work and at home? Over-worked and
unappreciated? Yes? You might want to read on about achieving the
elusive notion of work-life balance…
Let me share my story…
I
’m a business woman, mother, wife and many
Let me share nine significant choices you can
other roles that do not have official titles. I’m
make to shift your balance:
also a corporate refugee… Just over 10 years
ago I stepped out of a high-end corporate job
to become an independent consultant, coach
and my own boss. Why? Primarily for a better worklife balance (I thought). I still wanted an exciting
career, but I wanted to slow down – enjoy my family.
Experience better quality of life. Live a life of
significance.
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying you need
to dump your job and become an entrepreneur to get
1. Get Back to Basics – Your health is your wealth.
You need to take care of your greatest asset – YOU.
If you want energy to sustain yourself and get more
things done, you need to get proper nutrition, physical
activity and adequate sleep – that is, more than 7 ½
hours continuous sleep per night!
2. Build a Support Network. You cannot do it all on
your own. Ask for help and allow others to help you.
If you want to
succeed in both
actually think it is more challenging
to enter the entrepreneurial or
your professional
self-employed world. No, what
I’m saying is that in this world of and personal life,
ever-increasing demands and timeyou need to take
pressures, you need to take charge
deliberate steps
of your choices.
and make explicit
There is no single choices to create
formula…
your own bliss.
As the strategic thinking partner of
a great work-life balance and live a
happy life – as a matter of fact, I
A good network of friends, family,
colleagues and your community is
invaluable!
3. Get Off the Guilt-trip. Guilt can
“Sleeping is for
people who are
lazy”, THINK AGAIN!
The book “Sleep for
Success” by Dr. James
Maas and Rebecca
Robbins presents decades
of research at top ranking
universities all over the
world, as well as extensive
i