| 13 December 2010
Our most common wish for others is for them to have a happy and healthy Christmas and New Year. Well here are some gift ideas to give to yourself or others that help make that wish a little easier to achieve...
| 11 November 2010
Corporate wellbeing expert, Dr Paul Lanthois suggests that its time to stop blaming long working hours for our poor work life balance...
| 08 October 2010
Sustainability seems to be a real buzz word at the moment. Businesses are seeing the benefits of wiser, more energy-efficient use of our resources combined with recycling and other greener initiatives. But business is yet to really apply this sustainability concept to its most valuable resource...its workforce...
| 21 December 2009
It just seems that companies have got the whole work life balance out of sync. For some reason you have designed it so that your career obligations (and time required at work) peak during the most important time of your young families life. Then when your children are grown up and have left the house you are then encouraged to reduce your workload and retire...
| 18 December 2009
Why is it that so many people in their thirties and forties are so stretched to the limit that their bodies and minds are stretched close to breaking point?
A truly healthy work life balance isn't just an allocation of time. A healthy work life balance also involves an allocation of your energy to devote to your work and to other interests outside of work. With the developments of laptops, Blackberrys and Iphones technology has given us additional options to be able to do a bit of work while enjoying time with your family or while on vacation.
Unfortunately technology has made us less physically active and as a result, has weakened our capacity to produce our own energy. To make up for our technologically driven physical deficiencies, it is important to spend some of the time saved by technology exercising to boost your physical capacity to produce enough energy to sustain you...
| 23 July 2009
We’ve all heard different work-life balance experts and commentators regurgitate the same old clichéd advice, “You should work to live and not live to work.” But when you think about it, it would have to be one of the more ridiculous statements bandied about the public arena.
Do these supposed work-life balance experts that parrot this idealistic mantra belief that the occupation that you choose should be a sidelight in your life? Is your work really some evil dastardly villain that steals all your time and the possibility of any joy or fulfillment outside its walls?
