kwan facilitated by: doug mckinley, psy.d. september, 2012 finding your work-life tempo
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Facilitated by: Facilitated by: Doug McKinley, Psy.D.Doug McKinley, Psy.D.
September, 2012September, 2012
Finding Your Work-Life Tempo
Finding Your Work-Life Tempo
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Do you ever feel like you are barely
keeping your head above water?
Finding Your Work-Life Tempo
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“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
Albert Einstein
Going shopping instead of parenting
…Average American spends 6 hours a week shopping and less than 40 minutes playing with their children
…Time spent with kids diminished 40% this generation
…34% of Americans say their favorite activity is shopping while only 17% say they enjoy communing with nature
…The number one “scenic-drive” is now considered the Las Vegas Strip
The Pathology of the Norm
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…Every sixty minutes, 46 acres of prime farm land is lost to malls and larger homes. 2/3rds of the land area of Los Angeles is now paved.
…Americans spend more on jewelry and watches (80 billion) than on education (65 billion).
…Saving: Americans spend to save.
…Credit: The average American has $8,000 in C/C debt and only pay the minimum each month.
Paving Paradise
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Afluenza
A painful contagious socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.
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“The sleep of a laborer is sweet,
whether he eats little or much,
But the abundance of a rich man
permits him no sleep.”
Ecclesiastes
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(have)
(do)
(be)
Time
Priority
Attention
Having
Doing
Being
The Have-Do-Be Tree
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Know
Do you know yourself?
Want
What ind of life-work relationship do you want?
Attention
What are you focusing on?
Needs
Are your five basic life-work needs being met?
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“Love the life your living,rather than long for the life you want to live.”
Finding Your Work-Life Tempo
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Life Leadership Dashboard
SelfLove WorkSocial Spirit
The five basic life-work needs
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“If you let loose of what you do not need, then what is left will be enough, because what you appreciate, appreciates.”
Finding Your Work-Life Tempo
“It's not about working less,
it's simply about embracing life.
The work will wait while
you watch that rainbow…
but the rainbow
ain't going to wait
while you do the work."
–Paul Pearsall