It’s 8 AM. Do you know where your mind is as your body heads to work? What’s consuming your thoughts? Here’s my Sanctum Sunday Contemplative post on starting your workday in the wake of the work-life merge. What if your life, or the life of someone else depended on you being completely focused, present and…
The work-life balance conversation might be old, but it’s relevant. No one seems to have any, and there doesn’t seem to be a magic bullet as workers are saddled with more and more stress. The resulting burnout could be rendering some workers “out-of-order.” The statistics are galvanizing: Job stress is estimated to cost American companies…
On a warm windy spring night in Chicago, a bunch of men and women who attended the social media conference known as #SobCon, waited impatiently for a cab. One of them, Lou Imbriano, whistled and broke the silence of frustration. Within seconds I was taxiing with this rebel rouser and the queen of entrepreneurship Carol…
We are scattered across the globe. Souls impacted so intensely by the events of 9/11 that our career paths took a right turn. By “right” I mean in the direction of more meaningful work or vocation.And it wasn’t just New Yorkers. For some it was a matter of survival because they lost their jobs and…
A surge of inspiration was running through me on Saturday at the Book Breakthrough NYC (#BBNYC) workshop. I was fortunate enough to have the gift of attending. There were many takeaways, for THIS (moi) aspiring trade book author, but the biggest ah-ha was that producing a book is not just an inside job. As Hillary…
Do you feel zapped of every time you open an e-mail? News gotcha down? How does your brain feel after a normal day of information overload and attention crash in an era of distraction? Seems our work life balance is colliding with the demands of the new economy. Being tethered to technology in a 24/7…
Work-life balance is not just a women’s issue in the legal profession, it’s a bottom-line issue. Just ask Deborah Epstein Henry, author of Law & Reorder: Legal Industry Solutions for Restructure, Retention, Promotion & Work-Life Balance. In this weeks episode of Work Life Nation with Judy Martin you’ll hear how Henry launched her research, designed…
And on the seventh day… God took a chill. Ok, not exactly any particular version of Genesis 2:2, but you get the idea. In what I refer to as the Work Life Merge, we often don’t take the time to just stop. But somehow Sundays has this sacredness attached to it, even in theory. Even…
Our uncertain times cast a spotlight on the concept of work life balance. The economic recovery has many questioning the intersection of our working and family lives. When the fire is the hottest, by default we do one of two things; we spiral into burnout or we take a deeper look at how we are…
My Google alerts for stress, meditation and work-life balance have been on the rise lately and I think the tenuous state of the economy is at the core. Although Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke was cautiously optimistic about the GDP in the second half of the year, many are stressing about personal finances and their…
