CHAPTER 5

Be Your Best Whole Person

This category reveals the last 4 of the 24 foundational Power Skills:

21. Be a champion for work–life balance

22. Have fun in your work

23. Decide who you choose to be

24. Be a good actor.

21. Be a Champion for Work–Life Balance

Have you ever put off something important or especially fun to you and, in hindsight, you see a pattern emerge of putting such things off—a pattern that is becoming all too common? Join the crowd. Pat McCarty, a retired senior project executive IBM, said:

Don’t put off the important and fun things until later. Later can have a habit of never arriving.

There is no right or wrong in how you define your work–life balance. And your needs can change from year to year—sometimes even day to ...

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