Coaching Tip: When Work and Home Collide
Category: Coaching Secrets (CS242)Originally Submitted on 5/1/2000.
Introduction
In the search for balance, work and home are often set against each other. It is important to remember that both serve a larger priority, perhaps best described as 'quality of life.' They can therefore be seen as contributing to the same goal, not working in opposition to it.
The Coaching Tip
In the context of why we do what we do, 'why' can be a useful question. When seeking balance, as many clients are, we can very easily get into the mind-set of work against family. At this point it is useful to consider why we are doing what we are doing, and how each activity relates to our overall goals and values.Why are we working? What does work contribute to our quality of life? (Minor details like food, transportation, a roof over one's head - all definite contributors to quality of life - spring to mind.) What does our family time contribute to our quality of life? One hopes the answers will be support, company, contribution, love, and so on. When a battle arises between the two aspects of the same life, it is usually because we forget that each has its purpose, and that the purpose of both is, or at least should be, in the same direction.
When it comes to the point that either one detracts from the other, then it is time for a reassessment of why we are doing what we are doing. Where is the higher value?
About the Submitter
This piece was originally submitted by Diana Robinson, Ph.D., Personal Development & Business Coach, who can be reached at Choices4U@ChoiceCoach.com, or visited on the web. Diana Robinson wants you to know: My clients achieve success and greater enjoyment of life as we work on enhancing their ability to focus on and bring about what is truly important to them. To learn more, and/or to subscribe to either/both of my two e-mail free newsletters, please visit my web site. I also offer you the gift of a half-hour of free coaching by phone, with no obligation.
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