3 Team-building Lessons I Learned Through Wrestling School
“Daddy, I want to join a wrestling class!” One of the joys of being a parent is watching your child develop interests and habits. When my son Alessio told me…
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WHAT MANAGERS, SPORKS, AND WORK-LIFE BALANCE HAVE IN COMMON
s a child of the 80s one of the commercials I remember most are for Campbell’s Chunky Soup. The commercials were centered around a heated debate over whether Chunky Soup…
3 STRATEGIES TO FIND A BETTER FIT BETWEEN YOURSELF AND YOUR JOB
*Originally published in NASPA New Professionals and Graduate Students Newsletter Student affairs work is great. I have always found it interesting, challenging, and rewarding. There are a multitude of job types within…
FLAG ON THE PLAY! 4 QUICK TIPS TO ESTABLISHING WORK-LIFE BOUNDARIES
Have you ever felt like your professional and personal life overlapped in a way that bothered you? Do your job duties interfere with your ability to have a balanced life…
6 Lessons My Car Accident Reminded Me About Work-Life Balance
All I heard was deafening silence. For a moment my podcast cut out. I felt an impact on my left side. Out of the corner of my eye I saw…
3 Work-Life Tips For Student Affairs Professionals to Start the Academic Year
Hooray! It’s August/September and the students are coming back to campus and that means for those of us in student affairs, we are as the French would say, “le busy.”…
STOP COMPLAINING! The 1 Action Step You Must Take to Improve Work-Life Balance
I was recently at a conference when I overheard someone say “There is no work-life balance in this profession. People need to accept it.” I took a few deep breaths…
It’s Time to Declare YOUR Work-Life Independence
As someone with ties to both Canada and the United States the July 1st – July 4th date range which marks the independence of both North American nations is an awesome…