The document provides information from a seminar on achieving life balance and coping with stress at work and home. It discusses identifying and managing stressors, developing coping skills like problem solving and communication, and achieving balance through flexibility, closeness in relationships, and setting goals. The key is improving one's ability to manage stress, which can increase productivity, well-being and relationships.

1. Welcome to Achieving Life Balance: Coping With Stress @ Work and @ Home

16. Functional Dysfunctional Excitement Comfort Boredom Low Balanced High Frustration Stress Level

18. 1. Most Critical Issues 2. 4. Least Critical Issues 3. Able to Change Difficult to Change High Priority Low Priority

29. Problem Solving refers to your ability to deal directly with the difficult situations you face and make positive changes to resolve them.

33. Communication is the ability to share thoughts and feelings with others in order to promote mutual understanding, even under difficult circumstances.

36. “ We only hear half of what is said to us, understand only half of that, and remember only half of that.” --Mignon McLaughlin

41. Closeness refers to the degree to which you have developed a supportive social fabric in each area of your life.

42. “ We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men...” --Herman Melville

44. “ Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” --Henry Ford

46. Flexibility Indicates both the degree of structure in your life and how comfortable you are with situations that are unstructured and unpredictable

48. “ The most successful people are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is those people who carefully advance step by step, their minds becoming wider and wider, and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation, persevering in what they know to be practical, and concentrating their thought upon it, who are bound to succeed in the greatest degree.” --Alexander Graham Bell