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Balance is Bunk: Realistic Work/Life Integration Strategies

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The unrealistic concept of work/life balance makes me cringe. Most women are time starved, sleep deprived and burning the candle at both ends to keep up with career demands and being the Chief Household Officer. Those with kids have an extra layer of beautiful chaos while trying to raise younglings to become well-adjusted adults. You […]

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How Do You Live the 80/20 Rule?

How Do You Live the 80/20 Rule?

Recently I featured a career reinvention story about Lisa Montanaro who is a solutions expert and Principal of her company LM Organizing Solutions, LLC. Lisa has found her true career passion as a professional organizer even though she taps her transferable skills as a former practicing lawyer on a regular basis. Her new book The […]

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Are You Busy or Productive?

Are You Busy or Productive?

With the New Year in full swing many people are feeling the strain of sticking to their resolution of keeping some semblance of work/life balance. All of us have felt the panic of the treadmill moments when life moves so fast with so many responsibilities that it seems impossible to get off the moving belt […]

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Business Sense and Sensibility

Business Sense and Sensibility

I just finished reading Mireille Guiliano’s book: Women, Work, & the Art of Savoir Faire and it is filled with fabulous advice about being a professional woman in the world of work. Mireille was the former CEO of Cliquot, Inc. known best for their luxury champagne. This French born business woman has savvy tips to […]

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Are You a Workaholic?

Are You a Workaholic?

I consider myself someone who is incredibly involved in my work, my life, and my additional activities which cover a multitude of areas from my book project, consulting practice, performing life, and the non-profit theatre company for which I serve as a Board member, to name just a few. My life is full, hectic, and […]

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Work/Life Balance Survival

Work/Life Balance Survival

I recently taught a work/life balance seminar called I Will Survive! and opened the workshop by admitting to my audience that I was a work-a-holic. I found myself in the same boat as my participants with a hectic work day followed by endless evening activities leaving precious little time for family and fun activities. When […]

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