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Tips for Maintaining Balance When Setting Goals

Whether you are looking to start a career or are looking to switch careers, maintaining balance is an important topic.

I thought these tips may be useful to those who are setting career goals while trying to maintain work-life balance:

1. Your "To Do" list is never ending

Not to sound ominous, but your list is never going to end. You might as well enjoy the journey. Notice if you’re living each day like it’s your purpose to get everything done on your list. Do you tell yourself that if you can only get things done, you’ll feel relaxed and happy? There will always be unfinished items on your list, so enjoy the process instead of being run by your desire to get everything accomplished. Be happy and at peace now, don’t wait until you’ve checked everything off.

2. Be honest with yourself

If a goal doesn’t really fit or is something you think you should do but aren’t really energized about, ask yourself…Do I really need to be doing this? Get rid of the goal, change it, or put it on the backburner for a later date when you feel more energized about it. Similarly, if a goal is too big and makes you feel overwhelmed or frozen into inaction, change it or change its deadline.

3. Cut yourself some slack

Give yourself a break. Goals are a tool to help you plan and motivate you, not something to beat yourself up with if you don’t achieve them or achieve them in the time frame you expected. Cut yourself some slack and acknowledge that you’re headed in the right direction. Instead of getting frustrated over small setbacks, learn from them and move on.

lexa10881 · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:04 am Post subject:

Hallie, these are all very good pointers for making things more manageable. Goals should be attainable and able to be met [though not too easy!]

If a goal seems to be too much, the simple act of dividing it into smaller goals can make all of the difference in the world and keep you motivated instead of discouraging you.

Thanks for the wise input!

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careersearchhub · Newbie Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 1 Career Advice: +0/-0

Hey good tips regarding a jobs, thanks a tonne, keep up the good work.

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