Chapter 9 A Life Plan for Effective Human Relations.

Chapter 9

A Life Plan for Effective Human Relations

© 2012 Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.

Learning ObjectivesAfter studying Chapter 9, you will be able to:

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Learn how to cope with the forces that influence work/life balance.

Define success by standards that are compatible with your needs and values.

Discuss the meaning of right livelihood.

Describe four nonfinancial resources that can enrich your life.

Provide guidelines for developing a healthy lifestyle.

Develop a plan for making needed changes in your life.

Achieving Balance in a Chaotic World

• Construct a life plan• Define success• Choose a lifestyle• Define relationships• Become mentally and physically fit

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Redefining Our Work Lives

• Labor markets have become unstable

• Changing work patterns have created new opportunities and new challenges

• Career paths rarely follow a straight upward path anymore, but rather zig-zag paths that veer in all directions


Toward a New Definition of Success

• Experienced workers are finding that ambition and commitment are not enough to save their jobs

• Others who gave up leisure time to spend with family and friends retained their jobs, but have discovered that they feel unfulfilled

• Success must encompass an integrated life

How do you define an “integrated life”?


The Need for a New Models of Success


Developing Your Own Life Plan

• Personal life can seldom be separated from work life

• Develop your own definition of success with which to develop your own life plan

• You have to take 100% responsibility for everything that you experience in your life in order to be successful


Toward Right Livelihood

• Right Livelihood Is Work That:

– Is consciously chosen

– Is done with full awareness and care

– Leads to enlightenment or better understanding

• Characteristics of Right Livelihood

– Choice

– Emphasis on more than money

– Personal growth


Choice and Personal Growth

• Conscious Choice– Figure out what you like to do and what you are

good at

• Money is Secondary– Right livelihood has its own rewards–money is

just “icing on the cake”

• Personal Growth– Work should fulfill the need for personal growth

Are teens and children too young to know and understand the concept of “right livelihood”?


Defining Your Relationship With Money

• Competence in managing your finances is as important as managing your career

• Quality of life is dependent upon how we earn, save, and spend our money

• True Prosperity:

– The internal experience of having plenty of what we truly want and need in life


Mature Money Management

• People who do not maturely manage their money often experience depression and personal problems– Consider financial compatibility between

you and your partner– Suggestions for personal finances:

• Develop a personal financial plan• Spend less than you earn• Get off the hedonic treadmill• Maintain a cash cushion


Defining Your Nonfinancial Resources

• The biggest contributors to a happy, fulfilling life are: – Good health - Healthy

spirituality– Intellectual growth - Leisure time

• The starting point is to realize that most of your resources are nonfinancial– Enrich your nonfinancial assets, enrich your life

What is spirituality?



FIGURE 9.1 Put Balance in Your Life


Physical and Mental Health

• Exercise Program Benefits

– Physical fitness positively affects mental acuity, self-esteem, self-confidence, and personal appearance

– Exercise increases energy levels, encourages weight loss, and reduces deaths from coronary artery disease and stroke

– Wellness programs reduce work absences due to sickness and reduce health insurance claims


Education and Training(Intellectual Growth)

• Become a Career Activist:– Think of yourself as a unique brand– Be selective in what you learn– Take advantage of various learning pathways

• Landing a Great Job– Use networking to find a rewarding position– Networking requires self-confidence– Do not cover up a gap in your work history


Benefits of Leisure Time

• Helps in maintaining social connections with family and friends

• Allows you to return to work refreshed and reinvigorated

• Fosters better long-term health outcomes

• Nourishes the soul by bringing balance to life


Healthy Spirituality

• Spirituality

– Is an inner attitude that emphasizes energy, creative choice, and a powerful force for living

– Frees us to become positive, caring human beings

– In its many forms (e.g., integrity, trust, doing good, and giving back) can translate into high performance and healthy profits


TABLE 9.1 Ways to Achieve Healthy Spirituality

Developing a Healthy Lifestyle

• Guidelines For a Healthy Diet– Maintain a diet that is balanced and varied– Reduce calorie intake– Cut down on fatty foods– Eat foods with adequate starch and fiber– Avoid too much sodium– If you drink alcohol, do so in moderation



FIGURE 9.2 U.S. Department of Agriculture’s MyPyramid


TABLE 9.2 Low-Fat Snack Choices

Improving Your Physical Fitness

• Physical fitness is the ability to perform daily tasks vigorously and have energy left over to enjoy leisure activities

• You do not need to become a fanatic to get the benefits of an exercise program

• Develop a program that has a variety of fitness activities


Planning For Changes in Your Life

• You can control your behaviors, you can control your life

– Identify the behaviors you want to adopt or modify to make an important change in your life

– Once you have identified the behaviors, set goals, do what is necessary to reach them, and form good habits

The Power of Habits

• Strive to replace bad habits with good habits

• Breaking a habit involves five steps:

1. Motivation

2. Knowledge

3. Practice

4. Feedback

5. Reinforcement


The Goal-Setting Theory

• The goal-setting process requires that you be clear about what you want to accomplish

• Progress will be difficult to observe if goals are not well defined


The Choice is Yours

• You are a unique combination of talents, attitudes, values, goals, needs, and motivation, all in a state of development

• The choice is yours to tap your potential to become a successful, productive human being, however you understand those terms


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