Comments on: 10 Ways for a Web Worker to Achieve Work-Life Balance http://gigaom.com/collaboration/10-ways-for-a-web-worker-to-achieve-work-life-balance/ Fri, 25 May 2012 13:08:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Raised vegetable garden http://gigaom.com/collaboration/10-ways-for-a-web-worker-to-achieve-work-life-balance/#comment-64164 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:09:17 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/14/10-ways-for-a-web-worker-to-achieve-work-life-balance/#comment-64164 I totally agree with your points. To expand on point 9, a friend recently recommended using the pomodoro technique. It is a way of setting blocks of work for 25 minutes each. It has helped me a great deal and works well with David Allen’s GTD method.

]]> By: The quest for a work-life balance « Diary of a Gen Y Professional http://gigaom.com/collaboration/10-ways-for-a-web-worker-to-achieve-work-life-balance/#comment-64163 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:43:43 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/14/10-ways-for-a-web-worker-to-achieve-work-life-balance/#comment-64163 [...] 10 Ways for a Web Worker to Achieve Work-Life Balance – Offers a couple of great tips about batching tasks and the importance of to-do lists. To-do lists are probably one of the biggest helpers for me (kept in my handy-dandy moleskine, of course). [...]

]]> By: WebWorkerDaily » Archive Would You Go Back to Fulltime Office Work? « http://gigaom.com/collaboration/10-ways-for-a-web-worker-to-achieve-work-life-balance/#comment-64162 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:18:50 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/14/10-ways-for-a-web-worker-to-achieve-work-life-balance/#comment-64162 [...] course, there are ways to strike a good work/life balance as a teleworker, but if you find that actively looking for a [...]

]]> By: 10 conseils pour garder une vraie vie | Travailleurs Du Web http://gigaom.com/collaboration/10-ways-for-a-web-worker-to-achieve-work-life-balance/#comment-64161 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:26:12 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/14/10-ways-for-a-web-worker-to-achieve-work-life-balance/#comment-64161 [...] piqué, traduit et adapté de WebWorkerDaily… Comment faire pour que on travaille pour vivre et non qu’on ne vive pour travailler? [...]

]]> By: The Center Of The Internet » Could You Go Without Your Computer For A Day? http://gigaom.com/collaboration/10-ways-for-a-web-worker-to-achieve-work-life-balance/#comment-64160 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:56:19 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/14/10-ways-for-a-web-worker-to-achieve-work-life-balance/#comment-64160 [...] plan on participating by shutting not only turning my computer off, but my cell phone as well.  My work/life balance will most likely be vastly improved as a [...]

]]> By: Web Worker Daily » Archive Could You Go Without Your Computer For A Day? « http://gigaom.com/collaboration/10-ways-for-a-web-worker-to-achieve-work-life-balance/#comment-64159 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:01:10 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/14/10-ways-for-a-web-worker-to-achieve-work-life-balance/#comment-64159 [...] plan on participating by shutting not only turning my computer off, but my cell phone as well.  My work/life balance will most likely be vastly improved as a [...]

]]> By: Web Worker Daily » Archive Open Thread: How do You Separate Work and Life? « http://gigaom.com/collaboration/10-ways-for-a-web-worker-to-achieve-work-life-balance/#comment-64158 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:19:02 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/14/10-ways-for-a-web-worker-to-achieve-work-life-balance/#comment-64158 [...] 10 Ways for a Web Worker to Achieve Work-Life Balance [...]

]]> By: Web Worker Daily » Archive Work-Life Boundaries for the Passionate Worker « http://gigaom.com/collaboration/10-ways-for-a-web-worker-to-achieve-work-life-balance/#comment-64157 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:17:11 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/14/10-ways-for-a-web-worker-to-achieve-work-life-balance/#comment-64157 [...] make sure your personal life doesn’t get lost? If you are truly passionate about your work, boundaries like limiting your work time or batch processing email may not be strong enough to keep work in its place — because your work is so engaging it [...]

]]> By: Kolz Blog » Blog Archive » Web Worker 101: Separating Life and Work http://gigaom.com/collaboration/10-ways-for-a-web-worker-to-achieve-work-life-balance/#comment-64156 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:03:39 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/14/10-ways-for-a-web-worker-to-achieve-work-life-balance/#comment-64156 [...] and all the time if you’re not careful. Even when you have no boss other than yourself, setting boundaries between work and the rest of your life is a good thing. In addition to keeping yourself sane, there [...]

]]> By: Creativivi http://gigaom.com/collaboration/10-ways-for-a-web-worker-to-achieve-work-life-balance/#comment-64155 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:35:00 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/14/10-ways-for-a-web-worker-to-achieve-work-life-balance/#comment-64155 Limit work… This is a well known fault of many entrepreneurs, not just web workers (but compounded by the fact that the web has no office hours). Also, for people who charge an hourly rate, it’s tempting to think of the “opportunity cost” of your well-deserved free time.

In my case, I’ve learned the hard way that your time off is the one investment guaranteed to pay off. Worse still, the risk of NOT limiting work is significantly higher than the minute chance of striking gold during extra hours you cheat yourself & your familiy from against your better judgement.

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