Achieving Life Balance: Taking Action for a Better:

What Is Balance for You?
Defining Life Balance
Identifying How You Spend Your Time
Charting Your Life Balance
Chart Your Ideal Life Balance
Assessing Your Values
Aligning Your Life with Your Values
Are You Living in Line with Your Values?
Scrutinizing Your Schedule

Setting Goals and Action Plans
Understanding Goal Setting
Writing Goals Using the SMARTS Criteria
Setting Goals to Fulfill Your Values
Defining Action Steps for Achieving Your Goals
Brainstorming for Action Steps
Other Ideas for Developing Action Steps
Developing an Action Plan

Managing Your Self
Understanding ?Life Script?
Uncovering Your Own Life Script
Discovering Psychological Drivers
Defining the Five Drivers
Analyzing the Drivers? Negative Impact
Observing How Drivers Affect Life Balance
Reprogramming Your Drivers
Rethinking Your Underlying Messages
Installing Your ?Allower? Messages

Managing Your Time
Setting Priorities According to Your Values
Making Effective Use of To-Do Lists
Handling Paperwork and E-Mail Efficiently
Keeping a Time Log

Managing Your Relationships
Evaluating Your Relationships
Understanding the Skill of Assertiveness
Increasing Your Assertiveness
Communicating Assertively
Balancing Relationships Through Contracts
Maintaining Assertiveness While Negotiating
Responding to Others
Using Active Listening

After completing this course, students will know how to:

Explore the meaning of life balance and in what ways your own life may not be balanced the way you would like Explain goal setting and creating action plans to meet your goals Help you discover your psychological drivers and reprogram them for more positive results Pesent strategies for managing your time according to your values Demonstrate effective ways to manage your relationships with others

Prerequisites