work-life-balance

You can escape completely, seeking an alternative life, or you can play the game and go absent without leave. How you do it is up to you.

Don't work for appraisal or appreciation, work for your personal growth

Thinking about work as a day job has made a big difference in the way I approach what I do. It also helped me not to confuse who I am with what I do.

Any decision can be easier if you think carefully about your goals; the dimensions of yourself that are most important to you; your needs and wants; the specific costs and benefits associated with your choices; the commensurability of those choices; and whether certain goals should be sequenced instead of pursued simultaneously to give you a better chance of success. Instead of striving for work__ife balance, or even worrying about juggling on the balance beam, use this framework to pursue your life__ work__olistically seeking both success and satisfaction.

One__ personal life and work are inseparable.

Those who feel satisfied with their personal lives are more satisfied with their careers and perform better.

Wherever you are, you have to work for your living.

Perhaps the answer is that it is necessary to slow down, finally giving up on economistic fanaticism and collectively rethink the true meaning of the word __ealth._ Wealth does not mean a person who owns a lot, but refers to someone who has enough time to enjoy what nature and human collaboration place within everyone__ reach. If the great majority of people could understand this basic notion, if they could be liberated from the competitive illusion that is impoverishing everyone__ life, the very foundations of capitalism, would start to crumble (p. 169).

You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life.

Seriously: Do you want to spend your working life simply being satisfied? When you look back on 50 years spent in business, do you want to be able to say, __ell, I was satisfied"?? No! Make happiness your goal. As in, __et__ make this a workplace where people are happy to work." As in, ____e been working for 50 years now, and it absolutely rocks! To me work is challenging, stimulating and just plain fun.

You can__ be happy at work every day. No matter how much you love your job, there are still going to be bad days. And that__ cool__t__ always OK to have a bad day at work.

The path to happiness at work starts with a simple decision: You must want to be happy. If you don__ commit to being happy at work, you won__ be. You won__ make the choices that make you happy. You won__ take the actions needed to get there. You won__ change the things that need to change.

Studies consistently show that happy companies are way more productive, creative and service-oriented than unhappy ones. Therefore, the happy companies will beat the pants off the unhappy ones in the market place. The future of business is happy! It__ inevitable.

See, happiness at work is an emotion. It comes from inside of you, and like all other emotions it is difficult to define, but inescapable once it__ present. Or not present. Can you define love? Poets have tried for thousands of years and aren__ getting much closer. But when you__e feeling love, you__e acutely aware of it, even though you have no formal definition.

Happiness at work is not about eliminating all the bad stuff from your job. It__ about being happy at work even though some of these bad things are present. It__ about building your skills and your energy to fix the problems, and to create more and more positive experiences at work.

Do we work for and pay for all this convenience in order to live our lives, or do we live our lives in order to work for and pay for all this convenience?

The only pride of her workday was not that it had been lived, but that it had been survived. It was wrong, she thought, it was viciously wrong that one should ever be forced to say that about any hour of one's life.

You can work to create a bright future.