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Maintaining Balance

Home, work, and personal life. How do you know where to set your priorities? What is the balance between a happy home life and earning an income to support that life? Maintaining a balance allows you to apply the right amount of energy to the correct pieces of your life. Figure out how to maintain this balance without a job change, or if you are willing, make a job/career change that better suits your lifestyle. Use the resources to the left to figure out where and how adjustments to your lifestyle can be made.

9 Resources found for
Category: Maintaining Balance

  1. Alliance of Work/Life Progress
    Succeeding in not only work but your home life as well.
    www.awlp.org
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  2. Counselor Richard Leider - Finding purpose in work and life
    Fast Company provides several tips and pieces of advice for landing a job.
    www.fastcompany.com/career
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  3. Home Fair
    Researching relocation? Salary calculator, school and city ratings.
    www.homefair.com
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  4. Mother Jones Interactive
    Mother Jones is a non-profit news organization that is comprised primarilly of investigative, political, and social justice reporting.
    www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/SO94/witt.html
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  5. Self Growth Online
    Self Growth Online is an online self improvement encyclopedia that provides self help articles, searches for expert motivators, and upcoming self improvement events around the country.
    www.selfgrowth.com
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  6. The Inventure Group
    The mission of the Inventure Group is to help people create purposeful work and lead purposeful lives.
    www.inventuregroup.com
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  7. Work & Family Connection
    Work-life is the practice of providing initiatives designed to create a more flexible, supportive work environment, enabling employees to focus on work tasks while at work.
    www.workfamily.com
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  8. Work Options: Flex Time Tools and Tactics
    Are You Feeling Stressed and Pressed for Time? Here's How to Get Flexible Work Approved at Your Current Job.
    www.workoptions.com
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  9. Working Mother
    Working Mother has resources devoted to career and work balance issues for women and mothers.
    www.workingmother.com
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