{"id":940,"date":"2013-05-31T16:16:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T23:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/careersingovernment.com\/tools\/?p=940"},"modified":"2014-04-22T20:05:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T03:05:08","slug":"five-tips-for-worklife-fit-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/gov-talk\/career-advice\/five-tips-for-worklife-fit-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Tips for Work+Life \u201cFit\u201d Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"corporate.fitness\"<\/a>Twenty years ago, clocks and walls use to tell us where work ended and the other parts of life began.\u00a0 But as technology exploded in a \u201cdo more, with less\u201d economy, the clocks and walls disappeared.<\/p>\n

To be our best, on and off the job, we need to learn how take the initiative and manage the way work fits into our lives, day to day and at major life transitions.\u00a0 It\u2019s the new modern skill set we need to succeed. Here are five tips to get you started!<\/p>\n

Tip 1:\u00a0 Your goal is work+life \u201cfit,\u201d not \u201cbalance.\u201d<\/b>\u00a0 Balance infers that the goal is a 50-50 split between your responsibilities on and off the job.\u00a0 Because that happens rarely, if ever, we always focus on what we don\u2019t have instead of seeing what we could have.\u00a0 Work+life \u201cfit,\u201d on the other hand, is about the possibilities based your unique personal and professional circumstances, on a given day, week, month or year.<\/p>\n

Tip 2: Learn to manage your everyday work+life fit, one small \u201ctweak\u201d at a time.\u00a0 <\/b>\u00a0Unfortunately, no one is going to tap you on the shoulder and say, \u201chey, why don\u2019t you finish that project and then head to the gym.\u201d\u00a0 We have to make those micro-tradeoffs about which priorities we are going to take care of and when every day.\u00a0 But how do we do it?<\/p>\n

A few years ago, I began to study a group of people I call the work+life fit naturals.\u00a0 While almost everyone else in their workplace struggled to get everything done, the naturals seemed to make it all happen without breaking a sweat.\u00a0 How did they do it?\u00a0 I translated their secrets into the simple weekly practice found in my new book, TWEAK IT: Make What Matters to You Happen Every Day.\u00a0 It harnesses the power of small, deliberate actions and priorities to make what matters at work and in your personal life.<\/p>\n

Tip 3: When you experience a major life transition, learn to create a plan that flexibly resets your work+life fit.<\/b> Start the conversation with your manager by presenting a clear plan that specifies the:<\/p>\n