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Work/Life - 10 Commandments of Balance

eMedia is always on. From the Crackberry in your pocket to the giant “WiFi” sign at the local McDonalds where your kids are chowing down on a happy meal, as an eMedia professional, its easy to forget the importance of disconnecting sometimes.

Tom Stern over at Fast Company has posted the 10 Commandments of Work/Life Balance. Here they are in their full glory:
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF WORK/LIFE BALANCE

1. The family is your master, and you shall not put false masters before them, such as so-called important meetings or your Crackberry.
2. Thou shalt not take the phrase “quality time” in vain.
3. Respect your father and mother, even if you have inherited your poor work/life skills from them. That’s what you pay a therapist for. Get over it.
4. Thou shalt not multi-task.
5. Stop trying to read this commandment and do your online trading at the same time. We warned you about multi-tasking in number 4.
6. Thou shalt not kill several good hours commuting. (This one is tough, but we never said these would be easy.)
7. Bearing false witness may have something to do with work/life balance, but we haven’t figured out what it is yet. In the meantime, avoid bearing false witness anyway.
8. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife’s IMac. Computers are just another distraction keeping you from realizing you need to budget your personal time more effectively.
9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s down time.
10. Thou shalt remember all birthdays, anniversaries and dates of important soccer matches. Verily, that is the least you can do to keep yourself out of the doghouse.

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