1/28/2008 Office Face-Time in Jittery-Times
A gander at the news and you’d think the sky was falling. Talk of recession, a stimulus package, an additional anticipated interest rate cut, housing crunch woes – you get the idea? Underlying fear about the economy hits consumer confidence, but it also has economists and career counselors poised to eventually talk about the job market.
WorkLife Afterhours
WorkLife issues often follow us home at night. And as we all know, sometimes the stress accumulated throughout the day worms its way into the bedroom along with our beloved Blackberry. (I’ve taken to leaving it in my office at night in my elusive quest for worklife balance, but I do miss it).
In order to calm myself and let go of the day’s activities, I’ll engage in some deep breathing and a tune or two that will ease the monkeymind. I’ve found a new album entitled Night Wheel, that not only does the job well and warms my heart, but also brings me to a time – long, long ago.
WorkLife Culture on LiteMind’s Top Lists
Litemind is rocking with a load of creative ideas culled from bloggers who have a lot of fresh thoughts to share. I recently joined in Luciano Passuello’s project to make a list of what I deemed my readers would gain the most from. Click here to read: 100 Ways to Personally Conquer Chaos at Work. [...]
WorkLife Success: The ParentPreneur Edge
A quick examination of my upbringing doesn’t exactly put me in the business category of entrepreneurship. My childhood was sans business acumen. My mom was an opera singer turned psychotherapist and my dad – a former high school administrator – had a Ph.D. from Columbia in Education.
Raising Judy and my sis, Mary of AnimalPerson.net, was a mishmash of opera, 60 Minutes, and cartoons. Not necessarily in that order. My sister and I learned of the arts, music and the power of the written word as our home was lined with hundreds of books.
As for my adult life, I am a step-mom without the benefit of the typical parenting process, but a quick read of Julie Lenzer Kirk’s, The ParentPreneur Edge, never the less offers a fun and unusually humorous alternative to the typical business book.
Ignore Information Overload? Manage it Perhaps.
"It’s the dose that makes the poison," said Timothy Ferriss in Sunday’s New York Times article Too Much Information? Ignore it, about the pros and cons of e-mail and black berry use. The image of bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, donned a half-page on the front cover of the SundayStyles section (not an easy task) [...]
WorkLife Mayhem: It’s all Relative
It’s been a week of compu-hell. There I said it. And I know I’m not alone. And as much as I tried to breathe through one technical issue after the next, it was hard to get past the moment and onto other business concerns. Sometimes we get so caught up in one problem and our inability to “fix it” instead of just giving it – and ourselves – a break. And then we think our conundrum is worse than our workplace colleagues.
Obviously, it’s all relative. If someone tells you they are having a rough day you can’t really compare your worklife chaos to someone elses. Take for example an audio technician named Larry who I met this past weekend. I REALLY felt for this guy. Check out his daily worklife scenario.
WorkLife Serenity – Cold Turkey Style
Tell the truth, at least to yourself. You’ve got at least one pair of old shoes barely holding on lingering on the rack near your back door porch, in your closet, or hiding inconspicuously with maybe just a toe or heal poking through that bag of clothing meant for Good Will. You want to get [...]
Blog Action Day: The Environment and WorkLife Culture
Environmentally Conscious @ Work
Today, Monday, October 15th, I’m participating in Blog Action Day along with about 16,000 other blog writers to raise awareness about environmental concerns. In the realm of worklife cultureand worklife balance, it’s a no-brainer. Big and small, businesses are realizing that taking interest in the topic not only benefits a company’s reputation, but also has a resounding impact within the workplace among employees. It can be a boost for employee engagement not to mention shareholder opinion.
It’s one thing for businesses to become more environmentally conscious, but that top down approach can only go so far unless we as individuals examine our own behavior whether in the workplace – or if we work from home. With my mind on Blog Action Day, I took a hard look at my behavior and eeekkksss, I have some stuff to work on. Here’ s a brief anecdote and ten tips to be more environmentally conscious @ work.
