Top 10 Life-Work Balance Blogs
If your job feels like a monkey on your back, your loved ones don't see you and you're considering changing your middle name to BlackBerry, maybe it's time to slow down and consider a little life-work balance. As a first step, see these blogs, which offer tips and philosophy on the delicate art of blending your career more smoothly into your life.
Jonathan Fields: awake@thewheel
Fields, the author of Career Renegade and someone who said "no" to continuing a well-paid but pressure-filled law career, holds forth on the importance of doing what's important to you. (Humorously, each entry contains a word count and estimated reading time in case you really want to micromanage your schedule.)
Longtime work-life expert Rose Tevis Trower relates stories on the importance of keeping things in perspective. Her inspirations range from watching wheelchair racers get ready for a marathon to an accidental death on an otherwise party-filled night to ways to break out of day-to-day drudgery at the office.
Personal coach Elias Scultori gives advice, reviews books and throws in
A Danish perspective on balance (also available in Spanish), http://www.felizentutrabajo.com/ with the message that happiness and having a sense of humor at work are critical. Advice and interaction with readers mixed with a lighthearted philosophy of creativity and play on the job.
Thoughts about how happy environments are more productive environments--and how to make yours happier, whether you're a wage slave or a supervisor. Features cartoons, contests, theme weeks and advice for pulling it off.
Broadcast journalist Judy Martin covers work-life balance in the new economy, with special attention to gender and pay equity as drivers of improving the "work" side of the equation. Also covers topics such as social entrepreneurship, resilient careers, and Twitter's effects on work-life balance.
Sloan Work and Family Research Network
The Boston College work-life think tank comments on news about employer flexibility, health issues, diversity, workloads, and other topics that affect workers. Also issues its own papers on these and related topics.
The power of slowing the velocity of your life to enjoy it more--which means potentially reconsidering how important productivity, connectivity and creativity are to both work and living. Thoughtful short articles with reference to others' books and blogs.
Getting ahead while making sure your life remains good, oriented to a Gen Y audience. Brazen Careerist co-founder Ryan Healy covers professional etiquette, building a lifestyle rather than a career, and making sure your boss won't suck.
Miami Herald columnist Cindy Krischer Goodman helps reconcile work with your family and personal life, particularly as moms' and dads' different roles and responsibilities affect that balance. She covers fitting exercise in with your job, workplace do's and don'ts, side jobs, and doing business at social functions.
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