Jul 12, 2018 - A Mindful Moment Exercise. ⢠Assessing Your Whole Life: The Wheel of Life. ⢠Application. ⢠Making
7/12/18
Work Life Integration
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Marci Heerman Executive Coach & Leadership Development Consultant, Menttium Facilitator
“Your vision should be what you believe is most fundamental to your ability to be your best self, to be at peace with yourself, to be fully integrated as a person, to be whole.” - Jon Kabat-Zinn
Ingredients to Designing Work/Life Integration o o
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Healthy High Expectations High Level of Nurturance
A Mindful Moment Exercise Assessing Your Whole Life: The Wheel of Life Application Making it Real: Your Version of an integrated life The Daily Log Turning concepts into reality: Voices of Experience Next Steps
Means holding a high standard of excellence Not: Insatiable, unhealthy pressure to be perfect Helping to establish a high bar and challenging others to achieve their best.
5 Keys to Designing Work/Life Integration ü Focus your attention ü Be honest about your strengths and limitations ü Be compassionate with yourself ü Rally your resources ü Be creative
Next Steps • Do 10 minutes of mindfulness breathing every day for a week and see what happens to your ability to focus your attention; stick with it even if it feels uncomfortable at first. • Complete a Wheel of Life assessment and have a conversation with your mentor about where you want to create more integration and what steps you can take to achieve it. • Begin the daily log and challenge yourself to use it for 14 days.
HBR Article: How Are You Protecting Your High Performers from Burnout? by Matt Plummer, June 21, 2018 https://hbr.org/2018/06/how-are-you-protecting-your-high-performers-from-burnout
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HBR Article: Spending 10 Minutes a Day on Mindfulness Subtly Changes the Way you React to Everything https://hbr.org/2017/01/spending-10-minutes-a-day-on-mindfulness-subtly-changes-the-way-you-react-toeverything Huffington Post, THE BLOG: Bring Your Whole Self to Work http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mikerobbins/bring-your-whole-self-to_b_6993358.html?ncid=engmodushpmg00000006 Dr. Kristen Neff: Expert on Self-Compassion practices http://self-compassion.org/ Daily Work/Life Integration Log “Search Inside Yourself: The unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace),” ChadeMeng Tan, 2012. Apps to track digital use: Moment https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moment-screen-time-tracker/id771541926?mt=8 Forest https://www.forestapp.cc/en/ Freedom https://freedom.to/ SelfControl https://itunes.apple.com/us/app-bundle/self-control-block-facebook-and-cure-mobileaddiction/id1249482903?mt=8 StayFocused https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/forest-stay-focused/id866450515?mt=8