來學英文吧 ---PSYCHOLOGY: How to Be the CEO of Your Lif

摘錄自：空中英語教室雜誌 ~ PSYCHOLOGY    

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How to Be the CEO of Your Life ~ Even in Today’s Economy

 

Manage the different aspects of your life better

 

“For years, many people have felt the different parts of their lives – jobs, families, personal time – are at odds and that there is nothing they can do about it.” Says Michigan State University distinguished professor Dr. Ellen Kossek, co-author of CEO of Me: Creating a Life that Works in the Flexible Job Age.

 

But even as work demands ratchet up, you can take steps – even small ones – to self-manage your career and life, says Kossek. She’s identified three main “flexstyles” – ways people manage to mix their work and personal life:

 

A.    Integrators tend to blend work and personal matters throughout the day. If you are an integrator, you take personal e-mails or calls on the job and handle work while cooking dinner.

B.     Separators set apart time and mental space for each primary identity. You focus on one role at a time – when you are at work, you work; when you’re with family or friends, you set work aside.

C.    Volleyers go back and forth between periods of intense separation and times of integration. A magazine editor’s deadlines or an event manager’s trade show dates will force periods of separation. But a volleyer will jump back into other commitments and relationships during downtimes.

 

Your patterns can shift and change over the course of your life and career, says Kossek. The question you need to ask is whether your current flexstyle is working for you or not. Whatever your flexstyle is, you will benefit from these four tips:

 

1.      Distinguish between high-value and low-value work. Give the most time and attention to the high-value stuff; find new ways to deal with the rest.

2.      Negotiate more. Offer more of what you can and draw lines when you need them most. Maybe you need to be at home for the kids by 5:00 so that your partner can get to an evening job. Offer to come in early or bring work home.

3.      Track your habits. Look at how you spend your time. What does an honest evaluation of your days and weeks tell you?

4.      Rethink demands. What is real, unavoidable pressure and what is self-imposed pressure? When it seems that everything is important and nothing can give, it is time to review your priorities.

 

“Even in turbulent times – perhaps especially in turbulent times – you are the CEO of your life,” says Kossek. “You do call more of the shots than you probably realize.”

 

 

phrase and vocabulary

 

1. at odds    爭執  /不一致  

• be at odds (with something)
  （與…）有差異，相矛盾
• be at odds (with somebody) (over/on something)
  （就某事）與…有分歧

2. dis·tin·guished  傑出的

Successful, authoritative, and commanding great respect
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 3. ratchet

 

a wheel or bar with teeth along the edge and a metal piece that fits between the teeth, allowing movement in one direction only （防止倒轉的）棘輪，棘齒

 

4. ideentify

to recognize somebody/something and be able to say who or what they are 確認；認出；鑒定

 

5.intergrator

整合之人(物)

A person or thing that integrates, in particular

 

6. volleyer 善於截擊空中球的球員Volleyer - In tennis, a player uses different strategies that both enhance his own strengths and exploit his opponent's weaknesses in order to gain the advantage and win more points

 

7. downtimes

停機時間  故障時間   停工期

 

8. turbulent

 

in which there is a lot of sudden change, confusion, disagreement and sometimes violence 動盪的；動亂的；騷動的；混亂的

 

9   shots

the act of trying to do or achieve something 嘗試；努力

 

 

 

 

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