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I have received the draft resume and reviewed it. It was a great job by Kelly. Thank you for your recommendation.

Just to let you know that I have asked her to do my covering letter as well.

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How can you have work-life balance if you don’t know what it means?

A little misconception about work-life balance is the time thing. Specifically, to have your work and life in balance doesn’t mean your time is equally split, eight hours apiece, between working, personal life, and sleeping. It’s a mistake I was making in my thinking, until I did a little research.

As defined by the collaborative reference source Wikipedia:

“Work-life balance is a person’s control over the conditions in their workplace. It is accomplished when an individual feels dually satisfied about their personal life and their paid occupation. It mutually benefits the individual, business and society when a person’s personal life is balanced with his or her own job.”

How do feel about your balance? Are your polishing your resume because your think your management career, your executive position, is pulling you out of balance? I don’t want to throw cold water on your choice, but I should point out this article, which notes 9 other tips for getting your work and life in balance.

Not sure whether you’re in balance? Well, if you like to take quizzes, here’s one for you. It’ll give you at least a gut-level check of whether you’re in balance – which is to say, you’ll see the results, and your gut will tell you whether the results are correct.

A few things with that quiz, though – don’t bother to give them your name and email address. Their website navigation is somewhat lacking, so you won’t be able to find the scoring guide easily after you take the quiz. And getting the score back via email took waaaay longer than it should have (a half-hour – oy!), not to mention the fact that it doesn’t even count up your score for you – you have to do that yourself.

So, to be as helpful as possible to you, just count the number of “true” responses you have in the quiz. And here’s the scoring guide:

Give yourself 1 point for each “true” response. Note that each “true” response is a sign that you probably need to make changes in your life — and the higher the number, the more critical it is for you to make changes in your lifestyle.

If you scored…

0-2 Your life is in pretty good balance; just be sure to do what you can to guard that balance.
3-5 Your work/life balance is teetering on the edge; now is the time to make changes before the problems overwhelm you.
5+ Your life is out of balance; you need to take immediate action to make changes in your work and your life before things start crashing around you.

I scored an 11. Excuse me while I go take immediate action of some sort.

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