From the category archives:

Life Balance

How To Create More Choice In Your Life

08.18.2011

Stop and Cut the Gladiolas
 This week we are experiencing a week of steady 80 degree temperatures. My mind wanders to fantasizing about how to squeeze all the things I love about summer into the next 6-8 weeks. Mind you, I am not complaining – as I much prefer the slow arrival of summer in [...]

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How To Coach Yourself To Better Self-Care

08.03.2011

For weeks I have been extra-focused on delivering results – meeting client needs, publisher deadlines – all while recovering from several painless, yet invasive, medical procedures.  Yesterday, I hit a brick wall of fatigue that resulted in my feeling overwhelmed, inadequate and not capable of making a real difference to anyone.  All the evidence points [...]

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A Physician’s Prescription for Self-Care

04.15.2011

When you are so busy taking care of others, does self-care feel selfish? How often do we relegate self-care as something that we do after we’ve taken care of our other “duties”, “responsibilities” and “obligations”? Just for a moment, I invite you to think of self-care in a different way. I invite you to consider that [...]

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Resolutions You Can Keep

01.10.2011

Good things sometimes ”come to those who wait”, but more often good things come to those who know what they want and ask for it. Did you spend some time over the New Year exploring what is important to you? (see my last blog post) Warning: Getting What You Ask For Have you gone in [...]

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Don’t Make a New Year’s Resolution, Yet…

12.28.2010

Not until you know what you really want and why it is important to you. The biggest problem with New Year’s Resolutions is that too often we base them on guilt or what others think we should resolve to do. Resolutions based on what other people value are doomed to fail. Do you want to [...]

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How to Stay Energized This Christmas

12.10.2010

Leave Me Alone, please – even if only for a few hours! I just need a little time to read a book or hear myself think! That was how I felt after a house full of family and friends at Thanksgiving. I love these folks and look forward to the time we share -and after [...]

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Manage your Energy, Not just your Time

11.09.2010

Patients still waiting to see you? Still haven’t thought about tonight’s dinner? How many times have you said, “There just aren’t enough hours in the day”? It’s true: there may always be more than you can do in 24 hours. Life balance may be a myth. But there is hope. You can’t stop the clock [...]

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6 Ways to Relax, Rejuvenate, and Get Re-Inspired

09.06.2010

Worn out, run down, weary?  These are phrases many of us are using to describe our emotional state.  Even if you took a vacation this summer, a recent survey by Expedia.com reports that only 53% of working Americans say they come back from vacation feeling rested and rejuvenated. We know that things are tough out [...]

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Are You a Workaholic? 25 Questions

08.27.2010

Can’t slow down? Even on vacation? A recent Wall Street Journal had a timely article on the difficulty some/many have relaxing on vacation. As the article suggests, relaxing on vacation is hard work. Does this imply that you are a workaholic or just a hard worker? Bryan E. Robinson, author of “Chained to the Desk, [...]

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Are You The Sandwich Generation?

06.18.2010

As a professional in America today, the odds are you are experiencing the stress of the Sandwich Generation. The source of stress may be professional, physical, emotional, legal and financial. The Sandwich Generation is a term coined by Dorothy Miller in 1981 to describe those sandwiched between aging parents who need care and/or help and [...]

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