You've begun to realize that instead of thriving on the high-stress level of the job, you feel overwhelmed and fear that your performance may suffer. Focus will be on recognizing the sources and applying effective techniques to manage personal stress. Yes, the pressures in today's society can be enormous, and tend to throw almost everyone for a loop sooner or later. But there are techniques that can help you maintain your equilibrium and succeed.

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4. Aim of publication:
To introduce the reader or the learner to
improving his or her personal and professional
development process, with an emphasis on
achieving balance in the work environment.
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5. Achieving Balance in Professional and Personal Life – Summary.
☺ Because a successful personal life
balancing act is an on-going process, we
would need to recognize the warning
signs of imbalance.
☺ Once that is established, we ought to
define boundaries and begin to establish
balance in our life.
☺ Next, one must first overcome what is
holding one back before one can set a
new direction.
☺ Making every moment count is the surest
path to living a good life, therefore
reducing the everyday activities,
interruptions, and attitudes that waste
our time is vital.
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6. Learning Objectives:
After developing the KeyPoints outlined in this publication, you should
mainly be able to:
☺ take an interest in improving your personal and professional
development process.
☺ recognize what constitutes everyday balance, and assess your own life
in terms of these key elements.
☺ discover ways to manage self-induced stress.
☺ learn to recognize opportunities in changing circumstances.
☺ identify how self-esteem works.
☺ …
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7. Learning Objectives:
☺ …
☺ specify behaviours that avoid wasting time.
☺ distinguish characteristics of how stress from overwork operates.
☺ select various methods of tempering personal stress.
☺ identify strategies that help overcome setbacks.
☺ discover strategies and statements that reinforce the ability to
succeed.
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8. Sections list:
☺ (Section 1) Discovering Balance.
☺ (Section 2) Setting a Course.
☺ (Section 3) Managing Time.
☺ (Section 4) Coping with Stress.
☺ (Section 5) Committing to Self.
☺ (Section 6) Keeping Our Balance.
☺ (Section 7) Balancing Professional Life Practice.
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9. (Section 1) Discovering Balance – Summary.
☺ Today society's pressures can be enormous.
☺ They tend to throw almost everyone for a loop
sooner or later.
☺ But there are techniques that can help us
maintain our equilibrium and succeed.
☺ Thus improving our personal and professional
development process.
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10. (Section 1) Discovering Balance – HighPoints.
 Balance Basics.
 Elements of a Balanced Life.
 Signs of an Imbalanced Life.
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11. (Section 1) HighPoints: Balance Basics.
☺ recognize the value of cultivating a balanced
lifestyle.
☺ match forces that define balance with activities.
☺ choose the combinations of forces that apply to
life balance situations.
☺ identify mental attitudes that affect life
balance.
☺ list attitudes that reflect self-discipline and
responsibility.
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12. (Section 1) HighPoints: Elements of a Balanced Life.
☺ recognize the value of overcoming obstacles to a
balanced life.
☺ match techniques that create positive attitudes with
the problems they resolve.
☺ link skills that enhance professional success with
their benefits.
☺ choose the effects of high and low self-esteem.
☺ identify the value of interpersonal skills, support
systems, and networking.
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13. (Section 1) HighPoints: Signs of an Imbalanced Life.
☺ recognize the benefits of responding properly to the
warning signs of imbalance.
☺ specify techniques for dealing with the warning signals of
life imbalance.
☺ choose indications of overworking.
☺ identify the qualities and characteristics of anger.
☺ differentiate between the myths and realities of the
different types of depression.
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14. (Section 1) HighPoints: Boundaries and Balance.
☺ recognize the value of setting boundaries to
achieve balance.
☺ identify techniques that improve the use of time in
personal and professional life.
☺ identify ways to set constructive restraints on
activities.
☺ specify factors that improve delegating.
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15. (Section 2) Setting a Course – Summary.
☺ Discovering the biases and emotional traps
that may be preventing us from getting what
we want out of our career and personal life.
☺ Recognizing our personal baggage frees us to
begin the process of discovering choices that
would bring greater satisfaction and positive in
our life.
☺ In doing so, we will begin to create a new path
for ourselves that is in alignment with our own
skills, interests, and passions.
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16. (Section 2) Setting a Course – HighPoints.
 Identifying One’s Own Beliefs.
 Obstacles to Change.
 Shifting Our Thinking.
 Choosing a Path.
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17. (Section 2) HighPoints: Identifying One’s Own Beliefs.
☺ recognize the value of understanding how
perceptions, beliefs and attitude influence behaviour.
☺ identify the effects of sensory stimuli on our
perceptions.
☺ select how beliefs affect behaviour.
☺ choose how attitudes work.
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18. (Section 2) HighPoints: Obstacles to Change.
☺ recognize the value of being aware how guilt,
shame, self-esteem, and fear work.
☺ differentiate between the ways that guilt and
shame are expressed.
☺ identify how self-esteem works.
☺ choose the ways that fear operates.
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19. (Section 2) HighPoints: Shifting Our Thinking.
☺ recognize the value of using methods to
facilitate change.
☺ identify outlooks that facilitate change.
☺ differentiate transition from change.
☺ identify methods that facilitate change.
☺ specify the steps necessary to carry out plans.
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20. (Section 2) HighPoints: Choosing a Path.
☺ recognize the importance of self-directed
efforts.
☺ identify factors that facilitate finding
rewarding work.
☺ choose actions that facilitate balancing
priorities.
☺ identify behaviors that will improve
concentration of effort.
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21. (Section 3) Managing Time – Summary.
☺ Recognizing many of the everyday activities,
interruptions, and attitudes that waste our time and,
in turn, eat away at the very thing we should value
most, time.
☺ With the time savings account therefore enriched,
we will need to learn to hone our time-management
skills and achieve much greater results for the same
effort.
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22. (Section 3) Managing Time – HighPoints
 Where Does the Time Go?
 Dealing with Perfectionism.
 Conquering Burnout.
 Using Time Effectively.
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23. (Section 3) HighPoints: Where Does the Time Go?
☺ recognize the value in becoming more efficient
in the use of time.
☺ identify basic factors in time management
theory.
☺ choose factors that influence effective goalsetting.
☺ specify behaviors that avoid wasting time.
☺ determine actions that effectively deal with
procrastination.
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24. (Section 3) HighPoints: Dealing with Perfectionism.
☺ recognize the value in understanding how perfectionism
works.
☺ identify the characteristics of negative perfectionism.
☺ select the characteristics of positive perfectionism.
☺ differentiate between behaviours that use positive
aspects of perfectionism and overcome negative
aspects.
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25. (Section 3) HighPoints: Conquering Burnout.
☺ recognize the value in understanding how
burnout is overcome.
☺ identify the manner in which burnout works.
☺ enumerate strategies that reduce burnout.
☺ list behaviors that heal burnout.
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26. (Section 3) HighPoints: Using Time Effectively.
☺ recognize the value of good time-management skills.
☺ choose actions that aid efficiency.
☺ identify processes that strengthen effective use of
time.
☺ choose activities that encourage optimum work
patterns.
☺ specify strategies that improve scheduling.
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27. (Section 4) Coping with Stress – Summary.
☺ There's no way to avoid having stress in one's
life, but there are techniques for combating it.
☺ Perhaps work makes us feel pressured.
☺ We could explore ways to anticipate for
stressful situations in order to reduce their
disruptions on our life.
☺ Sometimes it's just our own negative thinking
that creates anxiety in our lives.
☺ Therefore, employ time-tested methods of
diffusing these negative thoughts and keep
stress in check.
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28. (Section 4) Coping with Stress – HighPoints.
 Handling Self-induced Stress.
 Lessening Chronic Work Stressors.
 Managing Self-talk.
 Increasing Stress Tolerance.
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29. (Section 4) HighPoints: Handling Self-induced Stress.
☺ recognize the importance of handling stress in a
positive way.
☺ identify good stress management techniques.
☺ specify how stress works.
☺ establish the manner in which behaviour types deal
with stress.
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30. (Section 4) HighPoints: Lessening Chronic Work Stressors.
☺ recognize the importance of reducing chronic work
stressors.
☺ choose the manner in which stress operates at work.
☺ identify characteristics of how stress from overwork
operates.
☺ determine the manner in which under-utilization
operates.
☺ identify the ways that stress is tied to lifestyle.
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31. (Section 4) HighPoints: Managing Self-talk.
☺ recognize the benefits of overcoming negative
thinking patterns.
☺ specify the manner in which negative thinking
works.
☺ identify the ways that optimistic, positive thinking
works.
☺ choose characteristics of visualization and
affirmation.
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32. (Section 4) HighPoints: Increasing Stress Tolerance.
☺ recognize the value of techniques that improve
coping with pressure.
☺ identify the manner in which stress levels
operate.
☺ tell ways in which stress tolerance can be
increased.
☺ select various methods of tempering personal
stress.
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33. (Section 5) Committing to Self – Summary.
☺ As business and family and other pressures of
modern life gang up on us, we tend to get
caught up with life in the fast lane.
☺ There we often find ourselves eating on the
run, foregoing exercise, not making the time to
relax and catch our breath.
☺ That is the case, discover some keys to a
lifestyle that will make us more efficient,
better directed, and successful in our
professional life, and bring a complementary
improvement in our personal life.
☺ This’s achieve by analyzing our present dietary
habits and exploring tips from expert
nutritionists, assessing the best form of
exercise for ourselves, and recognizing how to
recharge our batteries in the short and long
term.
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34. (Section 5) Committing to Self – HighPoints.
 Good Housekeeping.
 Elbow Grease.
 Getting Away.
 Home Alone.
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35. (Section 5) HighPoints: Good Housekeeping.
☺ recognize the importance of the effects that
different food habits have on health and
behaviour.
☺ list factors in a nutritious diet.
☺ identify the connections among food, body
chemistry, and behavior.
☺ specify the effects that food additives and
chemicals have upon health and disposition.
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36. (Section 5) HighPoints: Elbow Grease.
☺ recognize the importance of physical exercise.
☺ identify factors in creating physical fitness.
☺ differentiate factors in aerobic exercise.
☺ enumerate the factors in walking for exercise.
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37. (Section 5) HighPoints: Getting Away.
☺ recognize the value of activities that allow
everyday pressures to be put aside.
☺ identify the factors in traveling.
☺ specify the elements of hobbies.
☺ list the components of humour.
☺ choose the factors of work and play.
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38. (Section 5) HighPoints: Home Alone.
☺ recognize the value in discovering the body,
mind, and spirit.
☺ specify practices that aid in physical
relaxation.
☺ identify processes of mental relaxation.
☺ choose factors in creating spirituality.
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39. (Section 6) Keeping The Balance – Summary.
☺ There ought to be flexibility and adaptability
in business and personal strategies.
☺ In accepting and understanding transitions, we
put ourselves in the position to take advantage
of the changes they offer.
☺ In learning to recognize opportunities in
changing circumstances, we will become
accustomed to transitions and discovering ways
of improvising as change occurs, including the
invaluable role of partners.
☺ Above all, these skills will allow us to maintain
our balance in tough moments.
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40. (Section 6) Keeping Our Balance – HighPoints.
 Understanding Transitions.
 Embracing Change.
 Risking Progress.
 Taking Action.
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41. (Section 6) HighPoints: Understanding Transitions.
☺ recognize the value in understanding how the
different phases of transitions and change
work.
☺ differentiate between transitions and changes.
☺ identify the effects of significant transitions.
☺ enumerate viable strategies for operating in
the no-man's land between old and new
identities.
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42. (Section 6) HighPoints: Embracing Change.
☺ recognize the value of change.
☺ list defence mechanisms that cause resistance
to change.
☺ enumerate methods for creatively adapting to
change.
☺ identify strategies that help overcome
setbacks.
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43. (Section 6) HighPoints: Risking Progress.
☺ recognize the values in risk-taking elements to
achieving progress.
☺ identify the critical elements in successful
beginnings.
☺ itemize key dynamics of collaborating.
☺ choose effective means of turning conflict into
progress.
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44. (Section 6) HighPoints: Taking Action.
☺ recognize the value of strategies that create
positive change.
☺ choose ways to take action to achieve balance.
☺ identify critical elements and questions of a
life plan.
☺ discover strategies and statements that
reinforce the ability to succeed.
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45. Achieving Balance in Professional and Personal Life – Conclusion.
At this point you should be familiar with the following:
o practicing an effective level of assertiveness.
o scheduling to reflect values and balance.
o developing positive rather than negative perfectionism.
o recognizing and managing stress.
o focusing on well-defined goals.
o applying techniques to change negative thinking.
o avoiding procrastinating behaviour.
o setting boundaries and saying "No".
o delegating responsibility.
o practicing behaviours that avoid wasting time.
o utilizing techniques for effective scheduling of tasks.
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