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■ Heightened awareness of important work and life values as well as
the way you are allocating your time in regard to these personally
relevant areas
■ Increased insight into the positive and negative implications of your
work and life styles in comparison to a desired ideal situation
■ Made decisions about what is important for you to maintain, change,
or possibly remove from your work or life style to achieve a desired
life balance
■ Committed to actions that should align your work and nonwork life

In short, you are striving for a self-prescribed integration between your
work and life styles. Doing so requires that your wisdom, logic, intuition,
and feelings are working as one. In this way, you can focus more attention and
assign higher priority to those areas of your life that are important to you,
and over which you choose to exert control.

Worksheet: Your Personal Action Plan

Step 1. Review your conclusions from this chapter’s three activities: Your Per-
sonal Pie Chart, Your Personal Stress Inventory, and Your Personal Implica-
tions Check.

Step 2.
■ Crystallize your insights from these previous activities into clearly stated
objectives.
■ Identify one or two work and/or life value areas that you wish to change.
Your primary criterion should be, “Is this important to me in bringing
my life closer to the integration that I desire?” Remember to work on no
more than two at a time. Go for success, and guard against doing too
much in too little time.

As examples, we will use the following work and life factors:
■ Extended hours of work
■ Not having time to coach your son’s baseball team
■ Very little time alone with your spouse
Use the SMART formula for writing your personal behavioral objective: