It’s vacation time! Hopefully you are taking one and feeling reinvigorated when you return. What else can you do to keep yourself and your company refreshed, rejuvenated and invigorated? Here are our keys:
It’s vacation time! Hopefully you are taking one and feeling reinvigorated when you return. What else can you do to keep yourself and your company refreshed, rejuvenated and invigorated? Here are our keys:
Our many thanks to Steve Wittry, Director, Human Resources, Carter’s | OshKosh B’gosh, for this very insightful guest blog post.
Last year, Scott Eblin wrote Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative. Of course, who wouldn’t resonate with that title?! It targets business people and, specifically, business leaders. He states: “One of my favorite definitions of leadership is that it’s a two part job—the first is to define reality; the second is to offer hope.” And what gets in the way of clearly understanding and dealing with reality are distractions and limiting patterns of belief and behavior that lead us to overwork and land us in a state of feeling overwhelmed: grouchiness, insomnia, poor decisions, lack of follow through, you name it.
I don't know about you, but some days I wake up and think, is this it? Am I doing this thing called life right? And, if I am how come I feel so stressed and tired all the time? Why do things feel so hard? When did it all get so complicated and why is it so hard to find the right work life balance? I am always running from project to project, yet I feel like I never have what I need to show for it.