Life Matters: Creating A Dynamic Balance of Work, Family, Time, & Money Presented By: Charles Hunter EG40422 Debartolo Hall 5/24/2012
Why This Topic?
Overview • • • • • •
Work Matters Family Matters Time Matters Money Matters Wisdom Matters Presentation Analysis
Work Matters • How Do You See Work? – “It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.” – Benjamin Franklin
• How Do You See Your Work? – Reasons: • Economic • Personal Fulfillment • Self-Worth
• Career Development • Recognition • “Stuff” money can buy
Work Optimizers • Be Proactive
• Build on Your Strengths
• Focus on Job One • Continually Improve
• Think “Teams” • Create Partnership Agreements
• Just…Work!
Work and Life Balance • See work as principle it can be • Leverage work for maximum effectiveness. • Share the positive aspects • “workaholics” create significant problems
Family Matters
Family Is Top Priority
Family Optimizers • Create a Personal Mission Statement • Have a weekly “Family Time”
• Date Your Mate • Have “Sneak-ins” and “Sneak-outs”
• Hold Regular Parent Chats • Have a Daily Family Wisdom Time
• Establish Clear Stewardships • Bring Heroes Home
Family and Life Balance • Always growing • Constantly find ways for greater effectiveness and interdependence • See home as the foundation
Time Matters • Ability to translate what matters most into the decision moments of our lives. • How Do You See Time? – Limited Resource – Busyness = self-worth
Urgent
Not Urgent
Time Management Matrix Quadrant II
Important
Quadrant I Work
Home
Work
Home
Handling an irate client
Taking an injured child to the emergency room.
Doing long-range planning
Truly recreating.
Creating preventative maintenance systems.
Nurturing relationships.
Meeting a deadline Solving a production line breakdown
Resolving a “credit card declined� problem. Picking up a child from school.
Developing professional skills.
Handling a cash flow crisis Responding to a window of opportunity
Having a regular family time. Helping a late-for-work spouse find lost car keys.
Building networks. Going on sneak-outs. Anticipating client needs.
Taking advantage of a teaching moment.
Quadrant III
Not Important
Creating a family mission statement.
Improving family health.
Quadrant IV
Work
Home
Work
Home
Handling junk e-mail (spam).
Being on time for unimportant television shows.
Gossip at the water fountain.
Watching mindless TV.
Doing some errands.
Unnecessary internet surfing.
Writing unnecessary reports. Responding to some drop-in visitors, phone calls, and voice mail. Attending unnecessary meetings. Organizational politicking.
Responding to some telemarketing and junk mail. Rushing between scheduled, but not highly meaningful activities and events.
Doing non-aligned hobbyhorse activities.
Playing excessive and addictive computer games or reading addictive light novels. Mindlessly surfing the web. Nervous eating.
Time Optimizers • Plan Weekly
• Track Your Time
• Use Time Zones
• Build Relationships of Trust
• T-Plan Daily
• Utilize Technology
Time and Life Balance • Communicator of Value • Gift of Time
• People & Relationships are most important
Money Matters • How Do You See Money? – Money ≠ happiness
• Expectations for Money – Importance & Investing vs. Urgency & Consuming
Important
Urgent
Not Urgent
Quadrant I
Quadrant II
Bills
Savings
Payments
Investments
Immediate needs
Insurance
Tax penalties
Capital investments (e.g., education, training)
Legal judgments
Business investments and improvements
Emergency medical expenses for self, family members, or friends
Investments in preventive health
Not Important
Investments in more effective personal systems or tools
Quadrant III
Quadrant IV
Impulse spending
Waste
Interest or borrowed money
Loss from bad judgment
Excessive entertainment
Self-destructive habits
More clothes than you could ever wear Shopping sprees
Guilt gifts Excessive tools or gadgets Urgency costs (e.g., overnight shipping charges because you want something now)
Gambling Excess purchases (e.g., a third car) Tools with features you never use
Anything that is a waste when compared to values and principles
Money Optimizers • Know Where Your Money Is Going
• Increase Your Financial Intelligence
• Know Where You Want Your Money To Go
• Build Margin
• Plan Weekly
Money and Life Balance • Communicator of Value
• Reflects what’s important • Reflects our character • Affects every aspect of our lives
Wisdom Matters • What is Wisdom? – Ability to make the choices that create the positive consequences we want to have in our lives.
• “Wisdom Literature” – Spend a few minutes a day – Relieve stress
Wisdom Literature Examples • “To be elated at success and disappointed at failure is to be the child of circumstances; how can such a one be called master of himself?” – Chinese Proverb
• “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” – Kahlil Gibran
Wisdom Matters cont… • Evaluating Experiences – Reflect – Journal – Learn – Share
Key Takeaways • See, Do, Get • Optimizers are key • Work, Family, Time, and Money balance are all necessary to sustain a genuine quality of life
Presentation Analysis • Focused on WIIFY – What the audience can get out of it.
• Tell’em, show’em, tell’em • Graphics and Animations • Consistent Format and style of slides