Life in Balance Leadership? CEO Sets Example So Listen up! Mike Torto has been CEO of rPath, a start up enterprise software company since May 2009. He loves his life and is conscious of the life/work balance he has created for himself. Mike commutes from Boston, Mass to Raleigh, North Carolina where he works! When I read those words in…
Sometimes in order to be inclusive, you have to include self-care. I’ve been under a lot of stress lately. I’m a single mother, raising my teenage son alone, for the last seven years. He has had a sleep disorder called Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder. His internal clock is opposite most everyone else. He’s under the care of a sleep specialist,…
Technology + Workaholism = No Life A journalist called me today to ask whether technology helped or hindered life/work balance. She said that she had spoken to several people who told her that “smart phones,” “Skype,” smaller laptops etc. just furthered their workaholic behavior, and that they had even less of a personal life because they were always connected. Is…
“Staycations” are a myth and waste of time for entrepreneurs and business leaders. In case you’re wondering what a staycation is, here is a definition from Wikipedia. “A staycation (or stay-cation, or stacation, or staykation) is a neologism for a period of time in which an individual or family stays at home and relaxes at home or takes day trips…
I write about life work balance. I meditate, exercise, listen to music and work on letting go of things i can’t control. But sometimes there are those days when I wish I had a do over day. I’m working on an article that’s due tomorrow. I waited too long to get started because I had other deadlines. The pressure is…
Stop Stress Related Bankruptcy 300 Billion Dollars a Year! According to the American Psychological Association that is what stress is costing businesses in the USA Be it loss of productivity, absenteeism, turnover or increased medical costs, stress is clearly expensive to organizations. What’s more, stress is costly to individuals. This same study by the APA shows that 80% of Americans…
Change, Control, or Let Go!My view on life changed when I turned 50; I no longer cared what other people thought about me. I became more internally focused. Seven years later at the age of 57, I realized that although I have let go of the stress of other people’s opinions, I have had to deal with other stressors.When I…
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