College Success = Career Success
BALANCING WORK AND YOUR PERSONAL LIFE
As you read in this chapter, you can use organization and time-management skills to balance your work and nonwork life so that you can honor your priorities in both.
Do you know someone who has a healthy work/life balance? If so, ask that person for his or her thoughts on these questions:
How do you balance your work and nonwork priorities? What strategies seem most effective?
What do you do to stay organized and manage your time in your work and nonwork life?
What’s an example of how being organized and managing your time in your work life helps you manage your nonwork life — and vice versa?
What are some barriers to juggling multiple responsibilities? How do you deal with those barriers?
Write down what you learned from talking with this person about work/life balance. What strategies could you use now, or in the future if you’re not currently working, to balance all of your responsibilities? Do you already use any of the strategies this person has suggested? If so, what are they? And what outcomes have they produced?