Get a Life: sort out your work-life balance
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Dont forget to refer to the resources in the right hand column which may help you.
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Pages: 20 sides of A4 (or less)
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Overall aim of this chapter: all TPDs and trainers experience some difficulty at some time in their lives with achieving a healthy work life balance. This section is to give some practical tips they may wish to employ. Ways of being more efficient. Avoid all the theoretical nonsense found in books which are stimulating but hardly ever get put into action.
- Currently under development
- Why I am writing this section when I am no Time Guru.
- add a delay to sending and recieiving in Outlook email - why
- answer emails ONCE a day
- email folders for email/task management
- email yourself a task
- the 25 minute timer; then move on. come back to it in a cycle of rotation. 25 mins per task then back to task 1.
- Don't delete tasks completed - cross them off (sense of achievement rather than the feeling you haven't done much all day)
- make a list for the week (every week). Review at end of week and before starting next week's list on the Sunday/Monday.
- make a list for the day (every day)
- make sure there is time for you - your hobbies, sport etc; recharges the batteries
- PDAs and iphones and blackberry's - worth it or not? might handle stuff more efficiently but makes you feel like you are working all the time
- listen to your referrers
- finish by 7pm every day? switch off?
- add something else, yes! I mean add - eg Spanish. recharges the batteries again.
- Put all your files on an external mini harddrive or USB stick.... carry it with you; be opportunistic.
Avoiding the flatline - how to add spice to your life - section to be written by Mary Selby.