My guest on this podcast knows this firsthand how overworking living an unbalanced life can do to reduce the health and happiness in your life Dr. Travis Parry has just released a book entitled " Achieving Balance, The Make Time Method to Help Advisors Reach Business and Personal Goals in an Overworked World." 

Dr. Parry has created the "Make Time Method" and outlines it in his book and our interview.  Travis states the "Make Time Method" is not some repackaged productivity tool.  It is a proven system to reprioritize your life and goals in a balanced approach. We can't do it all, and especially all at the same time.

Podcast 841: Achieving Balance with Dr. Travis Parry

EDM track about the amount of work and information the average person is responsible for.

Frantic

We often think about meetings in terms of the time they take, but they also take a lot of energy. In this post, I discuss ways of reducing the impact of meetings on the energy you have available for your other work. I also suggest some criteria you might use to make decisions about meetings easier.

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Making Decisions: Meetings

When considering the problem of working too many hours, it's important to also consider what you are doing in those hours. Your goal isn't just to work fewer hours but to make meaningful work a larger proportion of the work you are doing. 

This track quotes a post published on Careers in Theory: http://careersintheory.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/is-your-work-meaningful/

First published in my website in 2012, and edited in 2016. https://jovanevery.co.uk/number-of-hours-right-measure/

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Is "number of hours" the right measure?

The Japanese government starts a new initiative called Premium Friday, which encourages employees to leave companies early, around 3pm, on last Fridays of each month.
The government aims to boost consumption and eliminate the notoriously long working hours.
Yuzuha looks at the Twitter timeline around 3.30pm to see how it's working.

Would Premium Friday work in Japan?

Discussing issues bothering doctors across the world, which include administration, pay, overwork and so on.

Session 3: Doctor problems

A freelance journalist Yuzuha Oka picks up trending business news each day from Japanese publications.  Yuzuha have produced content for BBC, Reuters, ABC, Japan Times and more.
東大4年、フリーランスジャーナリストの岡ゆづはが、毎日一つ日本発の経済ニュースをピックアップして英語で振り返ります。ロイター通信で為替の記事を書いたり、ＢＢＣ、東洋経済オンラインなどに執筆したり。取材を通じて日々勉強中です。
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https://yuzuhafood4thought.wordpress.com/

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