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This overview presentation is about finding balance at work and home with proactive wellness initatives.
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10/12/2009
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[intro]
Being Your Best Finding Balance Within & at Work
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
[about me]
Heather Rahn, MA, LPC
Founder & CEO, ProgramProgram Director EARN‐EAP
[your life too?] [expectations vs. reality]
[positive v. negative]
Illusion of Balance
[expectations]
Romance 10%
Family/
Good Hair 11%
Shopping 8% Chocolate 3%
Family/ Children 60%
Career 5%
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[reality]
Self 2%
Children 35%
Sig Other 5% Media/ Internet 10%
Career 48%
[you]
Quick scan
•Mind
•Physical
•Spirit
[challenges always present] [self imposed hurdles]
[changing others]
•Only person have control of is YOU!is YOU!
[what you can do]
• Actions• Feelings• Thoughts
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[mind power]
www.belayperformance.com
[proud of self]
• Mind• Physical• Spirit
[making a change]
• Mind• Physical• Spirit
ActionsActionsThoughtsFeelings
[lifestyle & behaviors]
• Choices• Hurdles• Actions • ForgivenessForgiveness• Evaluate
[lifestyle & behaviors]
• Choices NO
[lifestyle & behaviors]
• Hurdles
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[lifestyle & behaviors]
• Actions• Forgiveness
[lifestyle & behaviors]
• Evaluation
[measure only what is important]
• creates a measurement of comparison
[daily challenge]
• JOURNAL SOMETHING OF IMPORTANCE• food choices• negative thoughts• physical activityphysical activity• time spent• spending• gratitude
[co-workers]
• career women stand up
[implications in workplace]
• Stress costs corporate America $300 billion annually(Valasquez‐Manoff, 2005)
•$8 000 estimated cost of di orce per•$8,000 estimated cost of divorce per employee to a company in lost productivity (Turvey, M., & Olson, D., 2006)
• $1680‐$2280 per prescription per person
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[implications in workplace]
• Tennessee Senator Bill Frist, July 2009, on what determines the cost of health care:
Genetics 35%
Health Services 10%
Social Circumstances
15%
Environment 5%
Lifestyle & Behaviors
40%
[inspiring others]
• Encouraging proactive wellness at work
[ROI]
• According to the U.S. Workplace Wellness Alliance’s review of 73 published workplace health promotion program studies, for every $1 an employer puts into a wellness program, they will see a ret rn of $3 50 in red ced health care costssee a return of $3.50 in reduced health care costsand absenteeism.”The Business Journal, July 31, 2009.
[inspiring others]
• Lead by example
[inspiring others]
• Change your corporate culture
[inspiring others]
• % time spent at work vs. home• accountability partners in + change
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[recap]
• Changing your “Feeling Words”• Journaling the important stuff for today• Inspiring others
[thank you]
• Heather Rahnwww.besimplybe.comwww.earn‐eap.comwwwbelayperformance comwww.belayperformance.com
www.linkedin.com/in/heatherahn
