CRACKING THE WORK/LIFE BALANCE CODE ONCE AND FOR ALL!

I just discovered the Yerkes-Dodson Law which was written up in the 70’s in the Harvard Business Review.  It says that with stress comes productivity…to a point.  But with too much stress, productivity plummets.  The resulting graph resembles an upside down U with stress on the x axis and productivity on the y axis.  So, just as we know that our stress-free zombie-like state is not productive, our overstressed state is equally not productive.  The secret is to back off the stress just enough to be at our peak in productivity.  READ ON

About Karen Oman, CPA (inactive)

President of KarenCaring, Inc.
Retired Founder and Former President, Certes Financial Pros

A little girl named Karen,
Went to a Christian school.
And the main thing that she learned there,
Was to live the Golden Rule.

But in her first job in the world,
And then jobs two and three.
The position on the org chart,
Seemed to be the golden key.

She was always near the bottom,
Which wasn’t very fun.
She looked around and asked herself,
Am I the only one? … READ ON