A recent story by Kiplinger’s reports that work-life balance problems are worsening for many Americans due to the recession:

According to StrategyOne, a consulting firm with offices around the U.S., Americans’ work-life balance is increasingly out of whack. Nearly a third of workers say their work-life balance is off; the rate is even higher among middle-aged male workers. Forty-four percent of that group say they are spending too much time on the job and too little time with family.

It  comes as little surprise that the recession has exacerbated people’s  work-life balance issues. Fully 38 percent of the 1,043 Americans  StrategyOne surveyed say their work-life problems have gotten worse  since the recession began; just 10 percent say they’ve gotten better.

I can see a few reasons why work-life balance problems are on the rise: [Read more…]

Don't Let This Happen to You!

For many of us, stress is a major enemy of work-life balance.  If we want to achieve and maintain balance in all areas of our lives, we need to learn effective ways to reduce stress – and even eliminate it.

Executive mentor Bobb Biehl says that as high as 85% of the stress we feel in life is caused by:

1. Indecision
2. Lack of control

I absolutely have found this to be true in my own life. What about you?

Stress from Indecision

I can point to several instances where indecision on my part has created a lot of stress in my life and the lives of others, and where indecision on the part of others has created stress in my life. [Read more…]