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Balanced Life

Jul 8, 2011 Balanced Life

How to Achieve Great Work-Life Balance

by Leah Gibbs

There is a lot of talk these days about work-life balance. Now, more than ever, people are not satisfied with working long hours and sacrificing their home life for their work. At the same time, we want to find work that engages us and that we enjoy. So how do we find a balance?

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Jun 2, 2011 Balanced Life

The Future of Work – Workstyle

by Leah Gibbs

Recently I have noticed a few articles discussing the predicted trends for the workplace and how we will work in the future and was interested to note that some of these trends already apply here at White Now!

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May 16, 2011 Balanced Life

5 Steps to Creating a Balanced Life

by Leah Gibbs

In today’s “hustle and bustle”world, it is getting more difficult to separate our professional lives from our personal time. People in this era (more than in any other time before) find themselves taking work home and spending late hours on their laptops. Most of these hard workers justify their misplaced time with their large salaries. [...]

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May 11, 2011 Balanced Life

Boundaries, boundaries, boundaries

by Leah Gibbs

Recently, my work has been seeping into the rest of my life.  It’s bleeding into family time, sleep time, and rest time.  Nothing is sacred.  It has a life of its own.

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Apr 26, 2011 Balanced Life

9 Tips in Life that Lead to Happiness

by Leah Gibbs

Are you truly happy? Do you even know what it means to be happy and what it takes to achieve happiness? These are important questions for anyone who is seeking happiness to ask themselves. I live my life to maintain my own happiness while trying my best to not cause unhappiness to anyone else. If [...]

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Apr 25, 2011 Balanced Life

Self-Assessment: Work-Life Balance

by Leah Gibbs

Work-life balance is a broad concept evoking a prioritizing between “work” (career or ambition) on one hand and “life” (pleasure, leisure, family or spiritual development) on the other. The term itself may set up false ideas about there being an “ideal” balancing point when in fact the goal may be less about true balance and [...]

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Apr 18, 2011 Balanced Life

Sleep in or work from home: minister’s plans to ease rush hour

by Leah Gibbs

Transport minister says ‘it is crazy these days for people to go to work when work can come to people’

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Mar 16, 2011 Balanced Life

The Lifestyle of an Internet Entrepreneur

by Leah Gibbs

Ask successful internet entrepreneurs what it takes to create a successful business online, and the majority will say that it takes a great deal of hard work and perseverance to succeed.

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Mar 4, 2011 Balanced Life

Returning to Work As a Mum and Trying To Balance It All

by Leah Gibbs

The higher cost of living and the increasing divorce rate has meant that stay-at-home Mums are becoming a rarity.  While it does feel a bit like this has been the case forever, it is still a relatively new phenomena and one that requires some ironing out.

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Jan 26, 2011 Balanced Life

Employers, staff blame you for bad work-life balance

by Leah Gibbs

Almost half of all Australians believe flexible employers hold the golden key to a quality work-life balance and that that balance begins and ends with them.

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Aug 26, 2010 Balanced Life

Leisure Matters

by Leah Gibbs

Have you been stressed out lately and find yourself with no free time? When was the last time you did something that you really enjoyed? With work taking over the major part of our lives, it might be extremely difficult even to remember the last vacation with family or friends. If you haven’t realised the [...]

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