McGraw-Hill Professional Business Insider Work Smarter Webinar Series presents The Essentials to Upgrade Your Work and Life. Learn how to invest your time well, develop your career, and create the best impression every time with Elizabeth Saunders, Rana Florida, and Barbara Pachter. For the webinar recording visit: http://bit.ly/mhpworksmarter

1. The Essentials to
Upgrade Your Work and Life
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2. What does work/life balance
mean to you?
• Investing time in alignment with action-based priorities
• Free the prisoners!
• Combining work and life using the right etiquette
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3. How do you decide how
to invest your time?
• Daily and weekly planning allow you to determine what's
important now
• Time Famine vs. Time Affluence
• Using social media
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4. How do you make choices when
you’re faced with too many competing
demands?
• Focus on the most important items and then let go of
everything else—without guilt
• Only 3 things to do with your time: Have Fun, Be Productive,
Give Back
• Handling comments from people who disagree with you
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5. How do you tackle setbacks?
• Slow down to process and release the situation before
moving forward
• Take risks and embrace failure
• Saying “I’m sorry”
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6. How do you set boundaries with
people who constantly take
your time and cause you stress?
• Teach people how to treat; it's your responsibility to clarify
and stick to boundaries
• Rate your friends
• Politely saying “no”
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7. What can you do to refresh and
recharge so that you have peak
performance and take care of
yourself?
• Sleep, exercise, prayer, and time with friends and family are
essential to sustainable success
• Give yourself recess
• Taking advantage of your network
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8. Questions?
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