Posted on October 14, 2008 by LJ
Two weeks ago, when I came home from work, I found our Roomba had committed suicide. It had flung itself down the stairs and was laying, face down on the stair landing, one wheel laying a few feet away. I’m not sure what caused the machine to go to such [...]
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Posted on October 3, 2008 by LJ
I was wondering one afternoon why work-life balance has become such an issue in our modern lives. The answer is actually very simple: changes in the way work is done now blurs the lines between work and non-work time. Back In the Day Starting with the industrial revolution, work began [...]
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Posted on September 19, 2008 by LJ
Within 24 hours last week, two comments floored me. The first was from a good friend, who looked at me and said I was exhausted, but how could I not be, after all I had been through in the last year? And was it any wonder I was irritable and [...]
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Posted on August 8, 2008 by LJ
I spend a lot of time at the computer. My job is all computer, and I find myself writing and doing other things on the computer at night. This isn’t necessarily healthy, though. I realized a couple of weeks ago that I needed to make sure my down-time activities were [...]
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Posted on January 28, 2008 by LJ
Photo by Bethany L KingI have often been challenged by the concept of work-life balance. It seemed to me that this should be implemented like a pie chart, applied daily. So much time for work, so much time for relaxation. I realized that this is not always possible on a [...]
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Posted on January 8, 2008 by LJ
Originally published on 21 April 2007. Before I found Flylady, I functioned as I had been taught. I would give, give, give, and end up overworked, stressed out, and worst of all, a martyr. I put everyone’s needs before myself, and it showed. One of the first emails I read [...]
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