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Work Life Balance

Why I’ll Never Retire

by Tim Berry on November 2, 2009

in Baby Boomer, True Stories, Work Life Balance

Ugh, baby boomers, retirement, selling the business … ouch. Strikes me like “lions, tigers, and bears,” in the Wizard of Oz. Scary.
I’m 61. It was my choice to change my job more than two years ago, so that now instead of managing my company with 45 employees I’m writing, speaking, blogging, and teaching. And I [...]

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5 Ways to Break Up a Bad Office Work Day

by Tim Berry on October 30, 2009

in Personal Productivity, Work Life Balance

It’s one of those days. Maybe you have technical problems, or a project that isn’t going well, you couldn’t sleep last night, you’ve run into a writer’s block or thinker’s block or city block. Maybe you just lost a client. Or learned about a powerful new competitor. Or maybe it’s simply just a bad day. It [...]

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Compassion Should Be Universal

by Tim Berry on October 12, 2009

in Business Ethics, Current Affairs, Work Life Balance

I’ve posted about the Charter for Compassion before. In this post about a year ago, I said:
Do you want to help solve one of the world’s great problems? This has to be as important as clean energy: religious fundamentalism turning into violence and hatred. The darker side of humanity seems at its worst when powered [...]

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Choose Your Own World View. Pick One.

by Tim Berry on September 29, 2009

in Work Life Balance, advice

Sometime around the middle of last week I published the following quote from Walt Disney:
A man should never neglect his family for business
Somebody who read that quote followed up by asking me:
Yes, it’s possible, but you need to apply common sense too, no?
That comment started me thinking. And I ended up drawing the diagram [...]

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