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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 Balance Living- Part 5

Kevin Bushey — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:26:13 +0000

Family and Community – Government and university studies support the idea that the ‘all work and no play’ lifestyle contributes to divorce, dysfunction in the family, and lack of involvement and investment in the community and neighborhood. As the community grows apart and neighbors become strangers, emotional and family support for things like childcare, help with aging parents and [...]

Living Well Through Balanced Living-Part 1

Kevin Bushey — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:11:43 +0000

“The trouble with the rat race is that, even if you win, you’re still a rat” ~ Lily Tomlin ~

There was a time, in the not-so-distant past, when families were expected to give up everything in order to achieve the financial security they craved. Perhaps you remember those decades, perhaps you are too young to recall those [...]