Tips on how to manage time and stay motivated in a recessionary climate

1. Managing Your Time
and Your Motivation
Ann Halloran

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3. What is Life Like in a Recession?
• Lower sales income
• Increased competition
• Cash flow problems
• Needing to work harder
• Low staff morale
• Fearful of the future
• Less social life
• Symptoms of stress

4. What is Work Life Balance?
“Work life balance occurs when individuals with
a finite amount of mental, physical and
emotional resources allocate those resources in
a way that corresponds to their personal and
professional goals”

12. Is there a perfect work life balance?
Varies depending on:
• Personal values and expectations
• Stage of life
• External factors e.g. recession
• Unexpected life events e.g. illness, family
responsibilities
.. the perfect balance is unique and constantly
changing

13. What is your score?
1. I feel like I have little or no control over my work life
2. I don’t have much time for hobbies or personal interests due to
work and family demands
3. I often feel guilty because I can't make time for everything I want
to do
4. I check work emails in the evenings and at weekends
5. I don’t have enough time to spend with my family and friends
6. I often feel exhausted - even early in the week
7. Usually, I work through my lunch break and in the evenings
8. I sometimes miss out on important family events because of work
9. I frequently think about work when I'm not working
10. My family is frequently upset with me about how much time I
spend working

14. What do we need to do to achieve a
balance?

15. Leisure
Self
Family
Growth
Personal
Goals
Health Finance
Spiritual Career

16. What is your Real Starting Point?

17. Focus on Career Goals
Want to reach
Values Why professional status
Long Term Obtain
Goals
What qualification
Intermediate Allow sufficient
Goals
How
time for study
Immediate Allocate 4 hours
Goals
Now each weekend

18. Focus on Personal Goals
Values Why (Love) Family
Long Term Spend more time
Goals
What together
Intermediate Share a special
Goals
How meal
Invite for lunch
Immediate first Sunday of
Goals
Now
each month

19. How is it for you?
• Start day with a To Do
List
• Incoming Priority!
• Urgent Deadlines!
• Staff issues and
support!
• Key Customer problem!
• Carry forward To Do List
to tomorrow

20. What am I here for?
Efficiency
Doing the job right
vs
Effectiveness
Doing the right job

21. Prioritising Your Time
Urgent Less Urgent
Important
Crises Preparation
Pressing Problems Planning
Deadlines Relationships
Leisure Time
A B
Get these done Bring these forward..
Less Important
Interruptions Junk mail
phone calls Time wasters
meetings Escape activities
paperwork Some phone calls
Can you delegate any? C Work to eliminate D

22. Your attitude is the key to motivation
It’s great not
knowing what is
around the corner

23. Feeling
apprehensive?
Focus on today or
this week

24. Sweep your brain
of negative
thoughts

25. There is always a
job or a contract
somewhere –
even in a recession

26. You are only as good as your last job

27. If it takes effort to
master a new skill,
that’s great –
others will give up

28. Appreciate all you
have

29. Watch out for Burnout..
Flashes of
memory
Poor eating loss Irritable
habits and short
tempered
Living on Dark circles
coffee and around
cigarettes your eyes
Feeling
Hard to get
weary after
to sleep at
a nights
night
sleep

30. What do you do
for the people you
care about?

31. How to Manage Your Time and
Wellbeing Workbook
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