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■ Plan to spend extra time taking care of your personal health and fitness
during periods of transition.
■ Plan for a special vacation with your loved ones after the initial peak
work period following a promotion.
■ Build backup or contingency plans for emergencies, for those periods
when your packed schedules begin to fall apart.

Principle 6. The Goal Is to Achieve a New Life Integration
How we intend to use time and how we actually spend it are the primary meas-
ures of the integration in our lives. Using time as we wish is one of the biggest
challenges in successfully navigating the personal side of leadership transi-
tions. After all, the point of managing a career is learning how to plan and
work toward a lifestyle that has professional and personal meaning to you and
those closest to you.
Achieving your ideal lifestyle integration among career, family, and per-
sonal goals is a challenge that, left unresolved, will leave you confused and
unhappy. More importantly, a lifestyle dominated by work can be unhealthy
and hurtful to those you love and care about, your family and friends. The
challenge of management will stress your daily schedule and the way you use
your time.
Leaders are increasingly under the stress of deadlines, responsibilities, and
quotas. As never before, you must learn to balance your “wannabes” with your
“haftabes,” what you want to do with what you have to do. It is a journey that
only few survive unscathed, with marriage intact, children secure, body
healthy, self at peace, and career assured.

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Your Personal Pie Chart

Try the following activity, Your Personal Pie Chart. The chart reflects how you
spend your time and how you would like to allocate time in key life areas. This
is a self-assessment activity that is especially valuable to help you appraise how
well your ideal self and real self are in sync. Try this activity several times in
your first year as a leader. It is not uncommon to see the graphic change from
the beginning to the end of a major career transition.