Work Life balance: like a clown keeping balance with his balls

You need to keep work life balance to be able to live a happy life with yourself and with your family. To get work life family balance, imagine yourself throwing balls in the air and then trying to catch all the balls without falling.

    Keeping balance with the different life balls

The top five balls in your life are: work, family, health, friends and spirituality. Always remember that the work ball is a rubber one, which if fell to the ground it will come back to you at some time, while the rest of the balls are made of glass, if they fell down, they may break. (If they fell, repairing is always possible, but try your best to keep balance with these things is always a smarter idea we recommend to you do)

    Work ball:

Jobs come and go all the time. So do not let your worry about work affects other aspects in your life. Here are two tips to help you organize your time during work busy days schedule:

- Take advantage of the company's policies and labor law especially for women in regard to vacations and permissions.

-If you are a mother, don’t make work the first priority in your life. There is no harm in some compromise. For example, enjoy the role of an administrative officer instead of clinging to the dream of the presidency of the department.

    Family ball:

No matter how ambitious you are, be sure that the family is the one will stand by your side if everything collapsed around you. To keep balance, make sure you can determine what is important with your mind and your heart. Many mothers bear the full responsibility of the family alone without involving her children and her husband, then they end up complaining about the size of responsibility and no one cares. You should have that you learn how divide responsibilities to family members and make house rules so that all family members be happy. 

     Health ball:

In the middle of a hectic day full events and responsibilities, some people may end up either ignoring their health affairs or postpone them. But in fact, your health is very important and you are responsible to pay attention to it. If you imagine for a moment that your day routine is more important than your health, ask yourself how your day could be without your health?! Your health is like a car, do not let it go without fuel.

   Friends ball:

Your friends are present in your life at all times. You can rely on them as you rely on your family. Strive for being with them and support them as they support you, not only in responsibilities and burdens, but also in raising morale and mental state.

    Spirituality ball:

Make sure to fill your heart with faith and recharge your spirituality as you manage your life roles. Feeling that you are not alone in this world and you do not have to save it will send inside you a sense of tranquility. Communicate with your Creator who always take care of you while you take care of your family.

    Life balance Prescription

To summarize, here are small prescription of tips that will help you balance the various tasks:

            Arrange your priorities, and don’t overburden yourself with things above what you can handle, or with many simple tasks that others can do.

   Express what is inside you! If you need help in balancing your different roles, talk with your spouse or your friends. You have all the right to ask for help and they have all the right to hear you.

    Sharing with others is a sign of love. Share the responsibility with your family, divide roles, each one's role in the family and bearing responsibility will help your children deal with the difficulties of their own life.
    

Remember well, you are also important. Your health and psychological condition are of the utmost importance priorities. Without them, you will not be able to play with the other life balls.

 Read also: What is the Japanese “KAIZEN” Strategy and how to Kaizen your life!?

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Seven simple tips to achieve your life goals

1- Have a fresh start

To put your foot on the road to achieving your life goals, learn to Forgive and forget, and start by forgiving yourself all that's gone. Start over from this moment and consider all the past has been erased. Live fully in the present moment.

2- Dare to dream big dreams & believe in yourself.

Believe in your abilities. You can do more than what you think. Just have full faith in God and have confidence in yourself. Read also: Smart Work vs. Hard work: Who said success is in hard work?!

Running towards your life goals:

3-   Write down what you want

Writing down what you want to do have special sort of magic. Amazingly, you feel that you are almost half way to living your life goal, and this will give you the trigger to start putting your dream into action.

4- Surround yourself with positive people and go walk in nature

Walking in the green or by the sea will immediately energize you positively and puts you in touch with the child within you. Always increase your positive energy by surrounding yourself with positive people.

5- Take the first step.

Take the small steps that are clear to you now to achieve your life goals. Later, other clearer big steps will appear along the way.

6- Reward Yourself 

Even if it is a small achievement of your life goals, you deserve to be rewarded. Go grab a chocolate or a buy yourself something you've always wanted. This will give you the power to achieve more. Read also: 10 secrets to achieve success anywhere any time

7- Do some Charity

You need a cause to work for, right? What about seeing other people happy? Think to grow rich to help other people. This will definitely go back to you by growing richer and charity will make you feel satisfied. So now take the first step towards achieving your life goals.

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Advice from The book “Too Nice for Your Own Good” by Duke Robinson

You are always trying to do what others expect from you, and you are careful not to hurt their feelings. You run to help friends and relatives whenever they need you and avoid disappointing them even if they provoked you, then you are a too nice person and you love and care that people describe you so.

However, if you contemplated your “nice” attitude, you will discover that it is often a behavior of 'defeatism' if you say yes when you should say no, or when you pretend to be calm when you feel resentment or anger, or when you resort to lying because you fear hurting the feelings of others. You may bear burden over you can handle so as not to embarrass the people dear to you. That is in order to for you to maintain dealing with others nicely you commit many errors that may affect you in a negative way, your business, or social relationships.

One of the biggest mistakes a nice person makes is a tendency to perfection, which imposes great pressure on him/her. It requires a strenuous effort to prove oneself, and to do various tasks to the fullest, as well as the continuous attempts to satisfy others. We must clarify here that trying to reach for perfection in itself is not a problem, but it becomes a mistake when it pushes you to develop unrealistic standards for yourself, or overburden you in terms of effort, time, or money, or when it becomes an obsession to the point of hindering your performance for your business.

 The first step to correct this is to have faith (and not just repeating words) that nobody is perfect, and to fully accept the shortcomings you have. After that comes the realization that perfection is not the only way to acquire the acceptance of others.

Beside the tendency for perfection, Duke Robinson summarizes in his book “Too Nice for Your Own Good” other errors that nice people do on a daily basis which are:

Mistake # 1: Taking greater commitments than you can handle: sometimes too much kindness can put you in trouble. Whether saying no to someone dear to you asking you for something makes you feel selfish and guilty, or trying to do whatever you are asked to do that drains your energy.

Mistake # 2: Not saying what you want: You may do so because you might think it is socially inappropriate, or you do not want to appear as weak, or you might be afraid of rejection or do not want to cause embarrassment to those you love. In any case, not disclosing your feelings, your requirements and suppressing what you want for the sake of others may lead you to a mental illness and may dissipate as the features of your personality.

Mistake # 3: Suppressing your resentment: the intention here is to keep your nerves calm while you boil inside as a result of the exploitation of others to you or abusing you or your feelings, which is a kind of forgery and lying to oneself and others. The call for not to suppress your resentment never means to arise like a volcano. All you have to do is to show to others that such conduct is harassing you so as not to repeat it again.

Mistake #4: Escaping from the truth: In order to be nice, you often shy away from telling the truth in order not to embarrass others but this does not either benefit them nor you. You have to tell the truth with humility and sensitivity. For example, if your wife asked you what do you think about the potatoes dish you didn’t like, you do not have to lie and say it was fantastic, there is no need also to be rude and say it was bad, but you can answer that you usually like the potatoes she makes, but its taste at this time was a little bit different. And so you get out of the situation with minimal losses.

Getting rid of the previous minor mistakes does not mean to stop being nice, but only helps us to rationalize the extra effort you try to make to be nice at all times and that often comes at the expense of your nerves and your comfort. So it is just a matter of balance to keep and maintain your mental well being, emotional and social health. If you do not suffer from being “too much nice”, you may continue reading other articles in this blog :) 

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How to Be Successful in Life and Death in 10 Steps

Perhaps this is the most important topic in our whole life, not because it contains rich information to success, but because it paints your course of your life in 10 Steps from the place and time where you are right now, to where you want to be, and how you want to be i.e. how to be successful in life and achieve life success! Therefore it was necessary to put the first point here in the time and place where we are now, and we put the second point in the place and time in which we die, then we walk to this point in a straight line and unswervingly.

You may wonder, why did I choose end of life - death - in particular? The answer to this question is simpler than you can imagine. It is because the deeds that you can provide end by your death, and after death you will not be able to do something to yourself, but the product of your previous work is what will continue to provide gifts and blessings to you by order of God. The Messenger of God, God bless him, said "When the son of Adam dies, his deeds come to an end apart from three, ongoing charitable acts, knowledge that people benefit from, or a righteous son who sends blessings for him".

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1 - Focus on how you want to die 

Imagine that your life now is a road and you are walking in it with steady steps towards an end. Take a good look on the road. Look back and forth; you will see that you are now in the middle and the finish line is about to come.  Sometimes you might think that the end of the road will come after a few minutes, but you find yourself still walking, and you will keep walking until you reach the finish line suddenly. So we do not know in fact when we die, and we do not know where we die, and we do not know how we will die, but we can at least imagine that in our minds, so let imagine.

Imagine now that you are about to reach the finish line, and you only have one hour until the Angel of Death comes to you to take your soul and end your life, what would you do in this hour?

The answers will vary according to the situation of each person, there are those who will keep praying, and there are those who will accelerate to ask people for forgiveness and return their rights to them, and there are those who will contact their beloved ones to say goodbye and then worship God, and there are lots and lots of acts that could be carried out in this case. But at the end all the cases are itemized under one category; your relationship with God and your relationship with people. So now let’s fix our relationship with God and our relationship with people until we die in peace and reassurance no matter where and no matter when.

2 - Draw a big picture of your life first

In the previous step we drew the end point. As for the starting point, it is the time and place where you are right now! Now, you should paint the big picture for your whole life. First, imagine that this world is without any obstacles, and you can do whatever you want. Close Your eyes and imagine yourself doing something, and take a deep look. Is what you are doing will lead you to the end point that you want, or not?

For example, you might see yourself as a doctor who have invented a cure for cancer, and helped in the treatment of hundreds of people living with this serious disease of all countries all over the world, and became a famous doctor too, and got the Nobel Prize, and ... etc., until you reach the end point when you are dying for God. 

3 - Repeat drawing the big picture of your life more than once

At varying times, keep repeating the drawing of the big picture of your life more than once. Perhaps for the first time you will see yourself as a doctor, and the second time you might see yourself as a pilot, and the third time you may see yourself as a businessman, and you may see more than one picture. But the picture that you want to be will be repeated each time on purpose and unintentionally. You will feel so happy inside you when you imagine yourself in this particular image; because the human mind does not differentiate between reality and imagination.

Yes, my brothers and sisters, the mind considers imagination as reality, and every time you draw to yourself an image, you present it to your subconscious mind like a fact or a reality, and it is recorded in the subconscious mind every time with your reactions, and what you feel.

4 - Find the picture appropriate for you

It might take days, months or even a year to choose the picture you want. How fast you choose your picture doesn’t matter. What matters is that there should be intense love link between you and what you want to achieve. I advise you to meditate for half an hour a day, take yourself to a calm place free from disturbance, remain alone, hold a pen and papers, write down everything that comes to your mind no matter what. Know for sure that no one else will paint your life for you and make sure you will conclude the big picture of your life automatically after several sessions contemplating and imagining your life; because the human mind has the ability to conclude.

Try, try, and try until you reach the appropriate image where you want to be for the rest of your life. You may take some time in these steps, no problem! Don’t ever think about obstacles at this stage; you are in the phase of imagination and dreams, and make sure that God will pave the road for you.

5 - Congratulate yourself for completing 50% of the success plan

I did not put this step as a sense of humor, but really congratulate yourself and treat yourself to a nice Pizza, or buy yourself a present; because you have passed 50% of the success plan, and you finished one of the most important steps and most influential at all, and I shall give you a practical example.

Imagine that you will travel to Paris, once you go out of your house, will you take a ride by any car and just go to wherever it may be going? Of course not, you know that your end will be in Paris. You will plan everything ahead starting from what you will be wearing to learning about transportation, city attractions, etc. until you reach your destination. So you will go in the directions that you set for yourself in advance.

By completing the previous five steps, you planned the road you will be walking in for the rest of your life until you die in peace for God. 

6 – Divide your life message into big goals

The big picture that you painted in the previous steps is your message in life, and now you need to divide it into big goals; for example, if you want to be a professional translator, you need to master your native language in addition to another language, and mastery of a language requires to attend classes in a training center, and taking notes, etc. So you need to have the price of the training course, and to have the time, etc. 

7 – Arrange goals in a descending order from the most important to the least important, and learn about what it takes to achieve each one goal

Now you have several big and different goals, and now you have to arrange all of these goals to start with the ones that you should be completing at the present moment, and so forth for the rest of goals.

Then start to learn about what it takes to finalize each goal with excellence. You might find also this article helpful to achieve your goals easily:   Read also: 10 secrets to achieve success anywhere any time

8 - Start taking your goals into action one by one, each according to its conditions

Start achieving the first goal with all of its conditions to achieve. Do not drag your heels, but go like the wind smoothly and fiercely to achieve your goal for God, and make sure that God will help you along the way. Whenever you are done with an objective, go for the next one. You can divide the big objective into small stages and finish these stages one after, and thus you will achieve your goal successfully. You can, of course, achieve more than one target at the same time, but this requires you to good planning of time and strong determination to complete what you've plotting.
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9 - On the way there might be sideways.

Focus on the target you want to hit, not paying attention to the road turns and temptations, and remember that before you started, you decided to go in this journey for God. So stay focused and you will master your way and you will know every nook and cranny of it.

You might learn about shortcuts by asking experienced people of a certain subject who tried the same way before and succeeded, and beware of asking someone who has no experience and take his advice. Also, you can seek help by reading books about what you want to build a great knowledge about your goal and your way.  

10 - Trust God

When you have a full knowledge of what you have to do, and when you learn how to achieve what you want to do, and when you have the intention to start work, trust in God; because God will always assist you, and you will always resort to him. So put your trust in him first and foremost, and make your intention of doing all the work is for God. You will not regret that.

Here we have finished this subject; do not read and leave.You can add an extra step you see relevant we haven't covered. You can also share this topic with your friends; one of them might benefit from it.

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10 secrets to achieve success 

To achieve success, you need to learn about the following success secrets shared by most successful people. 

1. Start your day early: The early bird catches the worm. Yes, it is true! If you don't know how to manage your sleep and can't sleep early read this article: Simple steps for you to sleep deeply

2. An important tip to achieve success is to arrange your priorities: Ask yourself what the most important things to do now? What are the things that make me happy? And begin your day with these tasks. 

3. Start with the difficult tasks: Avoid delaying them so they don’t get more difficult for you.

4. Look for weekly best hours of the day to do the most important things: there are hours in the day (often early morning hours) when you are more active mentally and physically, do not waste those precious hours in frivolous things.

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 5. Identify time thieves (enemies of success): Write down a list of things that waste your time, such as excessive internet browsing, or some phone calls, or arguments, etc., and minimize them as much as you can.

6. Practice some exercise. Maintaining a healthy body should be on your list of priorities. Not only, a sound mind is in sound body, but also your body is the vehicle that carries you and to reach where you want you need to feed it well and take care of it. 

7. Eat a healthy breakfast so the whole day would be a success: Eat a balanced meal, integrated nutrients from fruits and vegetables, protein and grains, provide you with the necessary energy to an actively communicative day.

 8. Express your love for your spouse and, children, and family: there is no doubt that you will feel happy when you see the smile on their faces. With simple things you can leave a big impact in the hearts of those you love.  Read also: How to be happy at work?

9. Communicate with positive people, and share your success dreams with successful people. Some people make you feel enthusiasm and optimism, and some of them make you feel frustration and pessimism. Try to draw closer to you type I and avoid type II as much as possible, and of course be a Type I person.

10: Ten minutes of positive thinking: wake up only 10 minutes earlier, and before you are engaged in anything, sit by yourself and think about all God’s blessings in your life, feel and enjoy the wonderful sense of inner peace,  gratitude and success. 

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Six steps to get rich from the book (Think and Grow Rich)   

 Most of the people think that the one have to make a great of effort to earn more and become rich. However, Napoleon Hill author of Think and Grow Rich has another point of view. He suggests that you need to change your way of thinking first if you want to earn money and become rich, and as soon as this status of organized thinking is planted in you, achieving your goal to become rich will become easier than before. Can you believe that?!

In general people think that the rich ones are the one who owns a lot of money, while Mr. Hill in his book says that the rich one is someone who has the ability to work, and a sense of happiness, inner peace, strength, courage, wisdom, and of course money. All of these are forms of richness owned by man, and can be achieved by his thoughts first and then by work to have them achieved.

It took him 25 years to write the book Think and Grow Rich. Here's the amazing book story.  Once upon a long time ago since the beginning of the last century (the twentieth century) there was a millionaire named Andrew Carnegie (not the well-known Dale Carnegie), who invited a young writer to work for him for free!! But what is work? Mr. Napoleon was assigned to interview a large number of millionaires at that time to prove the point of view of Andrew Carnegie. Mr. Carnegie believed that the amount of knowledge studied at schools is not enough to make a person rich, while the school of life is able to give people the experience needed to become rich, and it was interesting that Carnegie agreed with that if his point of view is correct, Mr. Hill himself will get rich in the process of gathering information for the production of the book. (This is what actually happened).

       

 Read also: How to save money and become richer?

How to get rich!

 This book is filled with ideas, but let me now share with you the wonderful six steps to become rich:

1. Define the exact amount of money you want to earn. It is never enough to say I want a lot of money, but say for example: I want to have my annual income to become $100,000

2. Determine exactly what you want to pay for this money in return, there nothing in real world that is called “nothing for something.”

3. Determine a date or a time limit you will be owning this amount of money.

4. Create a clear and specific plan to implement your goal and start immediately to put the plan into action.

5. Write clearly an overall sentence bout the amount you want to get, select the desired time, and what you are planning to give in return for this money, and finally clearly describe the operational plan to achieve your goal.

6. Read your sentence twice a day and loudly!

It is easy now to believe in the previous steps, and at the same time it is also easy to work on the previous plan. The only option here is your choice. I think you need to try it yourself!!

I highly recommend that you read the book “Think and Grow Rich “to get rich and to better grasp the above ideas. You can find it on Amazon, and enjoy your journey of becoming rich.

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 The 52 and 17 rule: Who said success is in hard work?!

 Work smarter, not harder!

 Have you met or encountered before that person who is never stressed or desperately busy and yet he achieves more than anyone else? Can you also be that kind of person? The Answer is always Yes, if you know how.

 The habits of productive people and employees have been studied, and that amazing ability to get things done has been discovered. This secret might surprise you, because it turned out to be repetitive effective breaks!

An average has been found out that the most productive people work for 52 minutes, then they take a break for 17 minutes before returning to work again. Employees with higher productivity rates do not even work eight hours a day, but they work smarter with frequent breaks. The idea is to work with dedication in the 52 minutes work with intense effect on accomplishing tasks and making progress, and then rest to get ready for the next round. In other words, they work with a purpose, while during the 17-minute break they are completely removed from the work they do, they are completely resting, not looking at their emails every two minutes or just quickly checking their "social networks!"

There are biological facts that also behind this rule. We, as humans, were not built to sit on one chair for eight hours or to concentrate for eight hours at a time. Don’t forget that you are a human being, not a machine!  So the best way is to take breaks, which are also good for your health.

In fact, when your mind is refreshed, you come up with ideas that can make your job easier and smarter. You can at that time, enjoy your life more, have a lot of time to be creative, go out, be more productive, get promoted, etc. I used to work very hard in a full time job. When I changed, first my way of thinking, and second started to appreciate and respect myself enough to change this way, I came out to realize that some work procedures can be modified and some other can be dispensed with. My job started to get easier and more flexible. You just need to take the decision and the rest will come.

An important question now, is how to take your break "seriously?"

1-    Don’t look at your smart phone or a computer. Never!

2-    Make some little exercise in the office, or go take a walk around, smell the fresh air to clear your mind and get your body moving

3-    Go out to the balcony of your premises and look up to the blue sky so your eyes would rest

4-    Go out to a near park or a garden. Let your eyes, brain and soul enjoy the scene of flowers and the green land. This has a very heavenly effect on your brain and soul as well.

5-    Socialize with your colleagues (not about work), which is always make you a happier person at office.

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6-    Eat something healthy to increase your energy levels.

7-    If you have to stay on the computer for some reason, then watch a funny video about animals, or check photos of beautiful landscape and birds. This also can have similar effect to refresh your mind.

The amazing thing about this rule is that it can be applied in all aspects of life.

It is worth noting, also, that a human person cannot be 100% productive for the whole day.it is not humanely possible. So rest assured and don't over worry for concentration is like a muscle: It needs rest to be able to function, and it should not be overworked.

1.       Read also: How to forget work during holiday?

So start stake serious breaks this week. The results may surprise you.

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One step can change the course of your life !

Kaizen: Every great thing starts simple

KAIZEN is a Japanese concept or philosophy method devised by the Japanese people during the reform period after World War II to help to restore Japan and to lead the industrial and financial institutions at that time, , and then it spread in the fields of business all over the world and to all aspects of life.

According to Kaizen Institute, Kaizen is the practice of continuous improvement. Kaizen was originally introduced to the West by Masaaki Imai in his book Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success in 1986. Today Kaizen is recognized worldwide as an important pillar of an organization’s long-term competitive strategy. Kaizen is continuous improvement that is based on certain guiding principles:

·         Good processes bring good results

·         Go see for yourself to grasp the current situation

·         Speak with data, manage by facts

·         Take action to contain and correct root causes of problems

·         Work as a team

·         Kaizen is everybody’s business

·         And much more!

The idea is based on continuous improvement little by little starting from the most basic steps.

Kaizen word is a compound word of two parts, "Kai" means "change" and "Zen" means "the best" or "better" or "good." And the meaning is to change for the better: "continuous Improvement" 

The idea can be summarized in one phrase: "journey of a thousand miles begins with one step unit, and so when you add a slight improvement to your life every day, the circumstances will improve much in the end.

  Now the question here is how to apply this concept on yourself, your life, and your children?

Real Examples 

• A lady wants to lose weight by exercising for 5 minutes in front of TV on a daily basis. This may seem a little but weird, but the kaizen trick here is stability, continuity and permanence. After a month and a half she was able to reach out to ten minutes a day, and then after a year she was exercising an hour a day without fatigue or boredom and she lost approximately 12 kg!

• You want to improve your relationship with your spouse. Every day do something for him/her that improves your relationship, a nice gesture, a fine dish, etc. Each day make one progressive step, and let me assure you that after quite some time you will find a remarkable difference. Same applies in all kinds of relationships.

• Want to organize your messy room or kitchen. Everyday do one shelf or drawer one and only one! You will find that the room or the kitchen was completed in a matter of days.

• You want your son or daughter to get used to do a specific good thing. Try to draw their attention to it for little time daily. The idea here again is continuity, and after quite some time you will find they are doing what you planted in them!

• Want to develop the habit of reading and develop it in your children? Let's kaizen this. Read half a page everyday before going to sleep. Only half a page, and some months later you and your children will become very professional readers.

• Want your son to sleep early and he does not sleep before 12 o'clock. Let him go to bed only a quarter to 12 and continue on that method for a month, and then in the following month let it be 11:30 and 11:15 and so on until sleeps early. Read also: 10 secrets to achieve success anywhere any time

The amazing fact about KAIZEN:

Your may notice little progress in the first few steps, but rest assured this is only in the beginning. Your later steps will start to widen until they become giant leaps overtime. Once you planted the seed and kept watering it everyday, the curve will start to rocket up to the sky. The process is accelerated in every step and the effect will be doubled, tripled, etc.

So continue to hold to the simple change until it becomes rooted in you and your children and you will see with your eyes miraculous results like all those who kaizened their life before you.

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