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Living Well Through Balanced Living- Part 12

Kevin Bushey — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:00:30 +0000

Job Changing? Focus on Good Habits.

Get Enough Sleep – Your brain can operate on a short nap for a day, but if you are not sleeping enough, you will not think well or process information and you’ll make mistakes and end up staying late to fix them.

Advertise Your Schedule – If you hate getting phone calls first [...]

Living Well Through Balanced Living- Part 11

Kevin Bushey — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:00:01 +0000

Time to change jobs?

Companies supporting balance are much easier to find than they used to be and it is more acceptable today to say that you want this balance – whether you are male or female, young or experienced, or working as an executive or a retail clerk. The last area we need to discuss in the work [...]

Living Well Through Balanced Living- Part 10

Kevin Bushey — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:00:52 +0000

Job Concerns:

Be sure that you aren’t contributing to the problem and that you have honestly tried to improve your relationship with the boss. Be sure that you don’t make things worse by offering to work longer hours or take someone else’s shift because you feel guilty.

If your attitude and feelings of obligation about work are [...]

Living Well Through Balanced Living- Part 9

Kevin Bushey — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:00:03 +0000

Work Options

Perhaps, on other days when things are quiet and slow, you can ask your boss to let you leave early and/or get compensatory time to reward you for the crazy hours you are expected to work during an emergency.

Don’t despair if you are a trauma nurse, or you work in the operating room or [...]

Living Well Through Balanced Living

Kevin Bushey — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:00:23 +0000

‘The Career’ Versus ‘The Job’

“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion” ~ C. Northcote Parkinson ~

Before you decide to tell your boss that you simply must have more time off to spend with the family, you’ll need to consider a few things.

First, most large companies now support balanced life plans – [...]