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What is work-life balance?
Maintaining a harmonious relationship between your work and personal related activities, while maintaining physical, emotional and mental well-being.
What is time management?
Time management is the process of planning and organizing how much time is spent on different activities to achieve specific goals.
This silly thing humans do can improve immunity, help regulate blood sugar levels, and improve sleep.
Extra 200 points: _______ can increase blood flow by what percent?
Laughing
20%
Why is organization (in time, space, thoughts etc) important? (Provide 2 reasons)
it helps to reduce stress levels, increase productivity, and save time by creating a clear and efficient workflow.
What is work-life integration?
It's the process of allowing space for both work and your personal life so that you can feel fulfilled in both aspects. With work-life integration, you efficiently coordinate your workday schedules and personal responsibilities, ensuring personal and professional productivity and higher satisfaction.
Why are benefits of having work-life balance? (provide 3)
Reduce stress levels, prevent burnout, improve relationships, increase productivity, and foster overall well-being/happiness.
What are some benefits of time management? (provide 2)
Improves productivity as more is done in less time, efficiency, reduces stress levels, as it helps to prioritize tasks and allocate time accordingly, greater clarity
What is goal setting? (100 points)
Why is it important? (100 points)
The process of defining specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals, and creating a plan to achieve them.
It helps to provide focus, motivation, clear direction, and a target to achieve. Also to prioritize tasks and measure progress.
How can you improve your organizational skills?
prioritizing tasks, establish goals, using organizational tools, minimizing clutter, delegate tasks, and keeping important documents and items easily accessible.
How do you prioritize tasks effectively? (provide three ways)
By evaluating tasks based on their goals, deadlines, categorizing tasks based on their importance and urgency, and then creating a plan of action.
What are challenges/factors that interfere with having a work-life balance? (provide 3)
excessive workloads, long commutes or working hours, lack of support, poor communication, unrealistic expectations, lack of boundaries, lack of self-care, inadequate coping strategies
What are some common time wasters? (provide 3)
Procrastination, social media, working without a plan, and unexpected interruptions, disorganization
True or False: People are proven to have better work/life balance by having improved health and better nutrition? (100%)
Extra 200 points: Name 3 of the top/most nutritious foods
True
Salmon, Kale (Leafy green vegetables), Potatoes, Berries, Eggs, Apples, Nuts, Cocoa/Dark Chocolate
What are some common organizational tools?
calendars, to-do lists, project management software, file cabinets, and labels, journals
What are some strategies to avoid procrastination?
Breaking down tasks into smaller pieces, setting reasonable deadlines, rewarding oneself for finishing a task, minimizing distractions...
Name 3 strategies to achieve work-life balance.
By setting boundaries, learning to say no when appropriate, prioritizing self-care, organization, time management skills (example: creating a schedule that accommodates personal and professional commitments), being involved in healthy habits, utilizing coping skills.
How can you work on OR improve your time management skills? (provide 3)
Extra 100 points: What is delegating and outsourcing?
Setting goals, creating to-do lists, prioritizing tasks, scheduling breaks, minimizing distractions, delegating and outsourcing
(assigning/sharing tasks with others: helps to free up time to focus on other priority tasks aspects)....
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How can you stay motivated to achieve your goals?(Provide 4 ways)
Surround yourself with similar mindsets, finding creative ways to stay inspired, setting realistic deadlines, visualizing success, creating accountability measures, rewarding oneself with progress/achievements, and practicing self-care, continue to set new goals
How can you maintain an organized space?
Extra 200 points: operating in a generally clutter-free environment increases productivity and general performance by ___%
regular cleaning and decluttering, avoiding excessive accumulation of items and unnecessary paperwork, and developing habits that promote orderliness, delegate a short time to maintain it.
15%
What is digital/technology overload (personal or at work)?
Extra 200 points: how may it affect your work-life balance?
Technology overload is described as “techno-stress” or “techno-invasion.” Digital and information overload occurs when your technology use becomes so frequent that you can no longer process or benefit from it.
Technology interferes between the work and life domain of workers and negatively affects the employees’ productivity because of stress, dissatisfaction, job strain, and interruptions
What are some signs that your work-life balance is off-balance? (provide 5)
Feeling tired all the time, neglecting personal relationships, unable to perform at work/school, experiencing undue stress levels, having difficulty concentrating, temper, forgetfulness, falling behind, lack of sleep