Rachel Kremer, Frost, PLLC, 2011 Pork Management Conference, June 14-17, in Nashville, Tenn.

1. Work-Life Balance-
How to Get More out of Your
Day
Rachel Kremer
Frost, PLLC

2. Consequences
• Fatigue
• Lost time with friends and
loved ones
• Increased expectations

3. Consequences
Even if not one of your goals, you can bet it is one
of those you employ!
Work-life balance now ranks as one of the most
important workplace attributes. Second only to
compensation!

4. Balance
• Feeling of merely trying to get through day
• Barely making it to end of week,
exhausted
• Feeling that you just want off the merry-
go-round of life
• Feeling of falling behind and never
catching up

5. Balance
• Are you a 10? Or a 1? Or somewhere in
between?
• Key is Sustaining Balance

6. Network and Develop Support
System
Communication with family, friends and
associates
Listen
Call friends and build up relationships
Be happy with work life.
Develop friends at work

7. Goals which Create a Plan
Ask yourself series of questions regularly.
Are you clear about your goals? Faith,
family, friends, finances, fitness, fun,
future career development and further
learning.
Make goals specific, measurable, action-
oriented, realistic and time-sensitive.

8. Goals which Create a Plan
• Visualize your ideal life
• Start a journal
• Pursue your Passion Persistently

9. Delegate!
You don’t need to do it all.
Trade services with friends and family.
Empower your employees.

10. Plan Your Time
Take advantage of the 10-15.
Waking up, staying up, lunch
Focus on the positive time efforts and stay
away from the negative.
Avoid procrastination.
Track everything for one week.
Organize
Keep one calendar.

11. Plan Your Time
Turn off the television
Be flexible
Finishing during work hours
To do lists-errands

12. Technology-Good and Bad
Connected to anyone any time from
anywhere. No boundaries between work
and home.
Make conscious decision to separate work
time from personal time when possible.

13. Technology-Good and Bad
Limit Internet Time
Use technology in your time management
process. Contact managers, calendars
Know when to shut things down.
Set goals, appointments, lunch dates in
work calendar
Check BlackBerry/Iphone once or twice an
hour.

14. Prioritize
10/10/10
What matters or what impact would this
have 10 minutes from now? 10 months
from now? 10 years from now?

15. Prioritize
What is the cost?
Will this add to my life or create more stress?

16. Prioritize
The secret is knowing what’s important and
what can wait.
Use the sharpest knife possible to trim the
essential from the secondary. Determine
the appropriate level of urgency.

17. Prioritize
Negotiate longer lead times when you can.
Don’t give in to “instant and immediate
answer” syndrome.
Treating everything as top priority is draining
and depleting.

18. Schedule Rest and Exercise
Eat healthy foods
Include physical activity in your daily routine.
Get enough sleep.
Set aside time each day for activity you
enjoy.
Discover activities you can do with partner,
family, friends

19. Schedule Rest and Exercise
Keep a journal.
Every weekend set a goal of doing one fun activity.
Define your daily exercise time.
Go to bed a half hour early and get up a half hour
early, to carve out personal time.
Don’t let the weekdays become one big work blur.
No all-nighters for work projects!

20. Letting Go
Learn to say no!
Use priority criteria to identify requests that
aren’t worth your time.
Let go of people and things that are holding
you back.
Prune activities that are not productive or
non-priorities.
Time management is not exact science

21. Conclusions?
Work-life balance is not one shot deal, but
rather a continuous journey.
Prioritize and continually re-assess those
priorities.

22. Conclusions?
Turn occasions in life to a positive
Turn negatives into learning experiences
Live simply, expect less and give more.
Make work-life balance by choice and not by
chance.

23. CLOSING PAGE