LEADING OFF: Balancing Time [Video]

Effective time management is crucial for achieving work-life balance. We often feel like there are not enough hours in the day to get everything done and end up sacrificing personal time. Time poverty is when you have too many things and insufficient time to do them. The one equalizer we all share is that everyone has 24 hours a day — 1,440 minutes. How we use those minutes determines our work-life balance. Time poverty affects our physical, mental, and emotional health. When we fall into time traps, we are less happy, less productive, and stressed.

Time Traps

1. Constant Connection to Technology

Technology has been an incredible blessing but has also added to the workload by not allowing people to unplug from work. We are too accessible. Cell phones, laptops, email, and other technologies constantly interrupt us at home and in the office. A few seconds or minutes to respond to messages add up. Become a time …