Achieving Life Balance

Description:
The course was designed to cover critical business and professional development topics in the shortest time possible. With a wealth of hands-on exercises, the course keeps you engaged and help you retain critical skills.

Achieving life balance has become one of the hottest topics for self-improvement in today’s hectic, fast-paced world. With constant demands pulling us in every direction, more and more of us are recognizing the need to reevaluate, reorganize, and reprioritize to live the life we want. Perhaps you are currently in this position. If so, ACHIEVING LIFE BALANCE is for you. The tips in this course will show you how to take charge, set goals, and rewrite your life script in order to change the patterns that may be keeping you from living a better life. Each lesson will help you reassess each area of your life and find ways to achieve better balance by looking at how you manage your self, your time, and your relationships.

Duration: One Day

Table of Contents:

Part 1: What Is Balance for You?
Defining Life Balance
Identifying How You Spend Your Time
Charting Your Life Balance
Chart Your Ideal Life Balance
Assessing Your Values
Aligning Your Life with Your Values
Are You Living in Line with Your Values?
Scrutinizing Your Schedule

Part 2: Setting Goals and Action Plans
Understanding Goal Setting
Writing Goals Using the SMARTS Criteria
Setting Goals to Fulfill Your Values
Defining Action Steps for Achieving Your Goals
Brainstorming for Action Steps
Other Ideas for Developing Action Steps
Developing an Action Plan

Part 3: Managing Your Self
Understanding “Life Script”
Uncovering Your Own Life Script
Discovering Psychological Drivers
Defining the Five Drivers
Analyzing the Drivers’ Negative Impact
Observing How Drivers Affect Life Balance
Reprogramming Your Drivers
Rethinking Your Underlying Messages
Installing Your “Allower” Messages

Part 4: Managing Your Time
Setting Priorities According to Your Values
Making Effective Use of To-Do Lists
Handling Paperwork and E-Mail Efficiently
Keeping a Time Log

Part 5: Managing Your Relationships
Evaluating Your Relationships
Understanding the Skill of Assertiveness
Increasing Your Assertiveness
Communicating Assertively
Balancing Relationships Through Contracts
Maintaining Assertiveness While Negotiating
Responding to Others
Using Active Listening

Addendum
Following Through with What You Have Learned
Addendum to Part 2
Addendum to Part 3
Addendum to Part 5
Additional Reading