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Work-Life

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Assess Your Sleepiness
Work-Life Balance Quiz
Work-Life Assessment and Planning Tools 

Finding Balance

Coping with Your Crazy-Busy Life
Work-Life Balance: Tips to Gain Control
When and How to Say No
5 Research-Based Ways to Say "No"
Effectively Managing Technology so that it Doesn't Control You
Smartphone Users: Beware
The Power of Nature
Dr. Norm Rizk Remarks on Work-Life

Personal Productivity

Academic Biomedical Career Customization
Understanding Procrastination
Writing Productivity Problems
Time Management  

Spirituality

Spirituality and Health
Office for Religious Life
Compline Sunday evenings

Family

Family Quality Time
Better Parenting
How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Spoiled
Nine Psychological Tasks for a Good Marriage
Making Step-Families Work
Physician Mothers and Breast Feeding
Effects of Stress on Family
Talking to Kids about Stress  

Work-Life and Physicians

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Physicians quickly realize that time is the most important resource that they have. Where have you placed YOU on your priority list?

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Setting priorities, learning to say no, delegating, and realizing that you can actually accomplish more by taking time for self-care, all lead to more time for fun.  Remember that word?

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Putting family and patients first, in conjuction with career and academic pressures, often come at the expense of sleep and personal well-being.

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Work toward personal and medical culture support for a fulfilling integrated work and home life - and in doing so improve patient care as well as personal satisfaction.

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