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Millions around the world are thinking, planning, and scheming about how to stretch a 24-hour day into an endless and productive workday, an endless loop of "useful" time. Executives face the daily quandary of finding new ways to thrive in order to achieve higher goals, to meet increased competition, and to function with progressively limited resources. Busy executives now need to work more hours to maintain their lifestyles. As they move up or across the corporate ladder, they find escalating challenges to remain level-headed and even-tempered. The Balancing Act. Working women and men currently face greater responsibilities. They have access to higher positions in their workplace, endlessly juggling tasks and attempting to master productive interactions. At the same time, they face household duties as they arrive home tired after an exhausting day at work. Although some succeed in balancing and integrating this complex situation, others end up dreading the once-wonderful new opportunities. Dr. Gaby Corá's chapter on LIFE-WORK MANAGEMENT in GETTING THINGS DONE: Keys to a Successful Business, with lead author and business guru, Ken Blanchard, will be available in April, 2007. The chapter is already available on The Executive Health & Wealth Institute website as an eChapter under "Resources." Dr. Corá's upcoming book, LEADING UNDER PRESSURE: Strategies to Maximize Peak Performance and Productivity while Maximizing Health and Wellbeing will be available in June, 2007. EXECUTIVE HEALTH & WEALTH INSTITUTE 8101 BISCAYNE BOULEVARD SUITE 516 MIAMI FL 33138 MIAMI 305-762-7632 CALL TOLL FREE 1-888-493-8247 EMAIL US UNSUBSCRIBE FROM OUR MAIL LIST ©MMIII-MMVII, Executive Health & Wealth Institute, Inc.

INDIVIDUAL HEALTH & ORGANIZATIONAL HEALTH© by Dr. Gaby Corá To get things done, it is essential to look at the following areas to effectively manage work in life for our personal, professional, and organizational well-being: From an individual perspective, one of the most obvious and important areas is the Physical dimension: The Four Pillars of Biological Health: Nutrition, sleep, exercise, and relaxation practices. This is where the mission that we have designed for ourselves manifests on the physical plane. Next is the emotional dimension. This is the area where our ability to connect with others resides. Our relationships with family and friends make our affective world rich and joyful. Our cognitive or intellectual dimension is next. In this area there is training, education, and the constant learning skills from a mental perspective. This is the area where our vision for the future is created. The next area has to do with social life and behavior. As a person, our well-being and growth also depends on our ability to connect and inter-relate with our community, our work organization, and other organizations and cultures. Lastly is the spiritual dimension, which includes our relationship with a higher being or connection with our higher self through prayer, meditation, and self-awareness. This area includes voluntarism, altruism, and esthetics. This is the key area where our values reside. Our individual ethics connect to our value system within this area. All of these dimensions are essential components of the healthy lifestyle and interact in dynamic processes. Productivity and performance processes operate within each of these areas, allowing us to constantly improve within each dimension. The above descriptions apply to a personal or individual perspective, but we can use the same framework in regards to a healthy organization: Within the physical dimension I would include the safety, the structure, and the human element we choose for our organization, whether it's our own company or a multinational corporation. This is also where the organizational mission-in-action is brought to life. The emotional dimension of a healthy organization includes the corporate culture-openness and trust, the ability to receive feedback, and sustain employee hope during critical times. The intellectual dimension within an organization includes the training, the learning, and the skills training necessary to constantly improve within the organization. This is where the vision for the organization is created. The social dimension includes the community involvement of an organization and the relationship that it creates with other corporations, cultures, and organizations. In the spiritual dimension, the healthy organization's values compose the foundation of the organization. Ethical values, voluntarism, and altruism are key components within this area at the organizational level. As in the individual healthy lifestyle, all of these dimensions are intimately related and interact in dynamic processes. Performance and productivity within each dimension bring in the dynamic processes within each area, providing for the opportunity for constant improvement. The more aligned the individual dimensions are with the corresponding organizational dimensions, the better the relationship between the individual and his or her organization. The better alignment there is, the better the match, the better the chances of maximum productivity, performance, and longstanding well-being. Excerpts from Dr. Gaby Corá's chapter Life-Work Management appearing in Getting Things Done: Keys to a Successful Business with lead author, business guru Ken Blanchard. The book will be available in April, 2007. Listen to Dr. Gaby Corá's interview on American Airlines: audio: LEADING UNDER PRESSURE® Dr. Gaby Corá is President of The Executive Health & Wealth Institute®, Inc. Discover: The Power of Wellbeing®. Her expertise in Managing Work in Lifetm during times of status-quo as well as in times of crisis inspired her to design a powerful program assisting executives and corporations in Leading under Pressure®, providing for effective strategies to maximize peak performance and productivity while maximizing health and well-being. She is a licensed medical doctor, trained mediator, corporate consultant, executive coach, she has a master's in business administration, and is a professional member of the National Speakers Association. To learn about our Executive Health programs please visit: link: EXECUTIVE HEALTH. Feel free to email your questions and comments directly to email: Dr. Gaby Corá. Dr. Gaby Corá's chapter on LIFE-WORK MANAGEMENT© is already available via pdf download as an eChapter. The chapter will be published in GETTING THINGS DONE: Keys to a Successful Business©, with lead author and business guru, Ken Blanchard, and available in April, 2007. In this chapter, Dr. Corá addresses key concepts to success, including the healthy individual lifestyle, the healthy organization, common pitfalls, successful strategies, and the "AIM I AM" system of constant improvement for individual and organizational well-being©. Additionally, her books and audio programs: LEADING UNDER PRESSURE® will be available in June, 2007. MANAGING WORK IN LIFEtm will be available in September, 2007. Her first work on QUANTUM WELLBEING© is already available. To learn more about these resources, please visit: link: EXECUTIVE HEALTH & WEALTH RESOURCES. THE EXECUTIVE HEALTH & WEALTH INSTITUTE® The Executive Health & Wealth Institute, Inc. is an international consulting firm based in Miami, Florida. Our experts provide consulting services, executive coaching, corporate advice, training workshops, seminars and consensus building meetings, assisting executives and corporations in Individual and Organizational Health & Wealth. 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