Comments on: Canadian Mental Health Association’s Annual Mental Health Week (May 7-13th) focuses on Work/Life Balance http://adultaddstrengths.com/2007/05/08/canadian-mental-health-associations-annual-mental-health-week-may-7-13th-focuses-on-worklife-balance/ A Blog about Adults with Attention Surplus Condition (aka ADHD) by Adult ADD Coach Pete Quily Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:28:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Pete Quily http://adultaddstrengths.com/2007/05/08/canadian-mental-health-associations-annual-mental-health-week-may-7-13th-focuses-on-worklife-balance/#comment-331758 Pete Quily Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:17:53 +0000 http://adultaddstrengths.com/2007/05/08/canadian-mental-health-associations-annual-mental-health-week-may-7-13th-focuses-on-worklife-balance/#comment-331758 very true Phil, a better term would be useful. work/ home or personal balance describes it better but kind of an awkward term. i guess the term came from the era when some people had almost no life outside of work. very true Phil, a better term would be useful.

work/ home or personal balance describes it better but kind of an awkward term. i guess the term came from the era when some people had almost no life outside of work.

]]> By: Phil http://adultaddstrengths.com/2007/05/08/canadian-mental-health-associations-annual-mental-health-week-may-7-13th-focuses-on-worklife-balance/#comment-327783 Phil Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:17:43 +0000 http://adultaddstrengths.com/2007/05/08/canadian-mental-health-associations-annual-mental-health-week-may-7-13th-focuses-on-worklife-balance/#comment-327783 "Self care activities and working on life career balance issues are hugely important for ADDers, who often tend towards perfectionism, workaholism and putting themselves last." Amen. No kidding. For sure. I'm very happy to see the increased attention that happiness and living are receiving within the business and popular presses. I wish, though, that we could come up with a better term than "work-life balance". The term sadly implies that work and life are separate things -- when, of course, work is actually *part of* life. “Self care activities and working on life career balance issues are hugely important for ADDers, who often tend towards perfectionism, workaholism and putting themselves last.”

Amen. No kidding. For sure.

I’m very happy to see the increased attention that happiness and living are receiving within the business and popular presses. I wish, though, that we could come up with a better term than “work-life balance”. The term sadly implies that work and life are separate things — when, of course, work is actually *part of* life.

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