Maintaining a Life Balance: The Secret is You

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Maintaining a Life Balance The Secret is You

• Designed Exclusively for the ILASFAA State
  Conference
• Schaumburg, IllinoisMarch 18, 2007

Presented by Terry D. Everson Senior Vice
President of Training Sales Student Loan Xpress
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Agenda

• Introduction and Overview
• Stress in Our Lives
• Good News/Bad News
• A Bakers Dozen
• Why We Resist/What We Gain
• Put Off Today
• Some Forms, Some Websites, Some Stuff
• Now What?

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Personal Learning JournalInitial Learning
Objectives

• A training program is like a communication
  situation in one important way If you are clear
  about what you want or need, and you are willing
  to ask for it, you are more likely to get it.
• In the space below, write down what you want or
  need from this training program.
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Ah-Has
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Good News/Bad News
Good News
Flexible
Structured
Bad News
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Stress What is it good for?

• Stress
• Eustress
• Distress

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A Bakers Dozen

• Plan and organize.
• Set smart goals.
• Focus your efforts. Pareto was right.
• Lists are good.
• Try to be flexible.
• Morning dove or night owl?
• Doing the right things, and doing them right.
• Fire fighting can get you burned.
• I love trivia.
• Anal retentive is a real pain.
• Put off today, and lose tomorrow.
• Be true to your school.
• We like treats.

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Smart Goals

• S
• M
• A
• R
• T

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Why We Resist

• H
• F
• LOI

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Procrastination Fears That Stifle

• Fear of Failure
• Fear of Success
• Fear of Control, by Self or Others
• Fear of Boredom

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How to Get Unstuck

• Detail What You Get by Procrastinating
• Compare/Contrast Benefits/
• Losses
• A Single Step
• Help Another Lost Soul

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Do It Now!

• Prioritize With a To Do List
• Test Your Beliefs
• Control Impulsiveness
• Practices Makes . . .

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To Do List

• Day
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Top Priorities
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Project Priorities

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Meeting Information

Participants ____________________________________
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Meeting Information (Contd)

• Notes
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Meeting Information (Contd)

• Summary Points
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Good Websites

• Google Search Time Management
• www.stresstips.com

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Call to Action
I will do what? By when?
Action
Date
Signed___________________
Date______
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Contact Information
Terry D. Everson Senior Vice President of
Training and Sales Student Loan Xpress 3532 John
Muir Drive Middleton, WI 53562 terry.everson_at_slxpr
ess.com (o) 608-831-5586 (f) 608-831-5589 (c)
608-225-3762