20091028 -- How to Be the CEO of Your Life- Even in Today's Economy (1)

How to Be the CEO of Your Life- Even in Today's Economy

Manage the different aspects of your life better

"For years. Many people have felt the different parts of their lives - jobs, families, personal time -are at odds and that there is nothing they can do about it," says Michigan State University distinguished professor Dr. Ellen Kossek. co-author of CEO of Me: Creating a Life that Works in the Flexible Job Age. But even as work demands ratchet up, you can take steps - even small ones - to self- manageyour career and life, says Kossek. She's identified three main "flexstyles" - ways people manage to mix their work and personal life:

A.Integrators tend to blend work and personal matters throughout the day. If you are an integrator. You take personal e-mails or calls on the job and handle work while cooking dinner.

B.Separators set apart time and mental space for each primary identity. You focus on one role at a time - when you are at work, you work: when you're with family or friends, you set work aside.

C.Volleyers go back and forth between perious of intense separation and times of integration. A magazine editor's deadlines or an event manager's trade show dates will force periods of separation. But a volleyer will jump back into other commitments and relationships during downtimes.



at odds 不一致的/有矛盾的
=> against, oppose to one another
at odds over something
at odds with someone
eg: Tim and his sister are at odds over how to care for their aging parents.
eg: The two managers are at odds over the marketing strategy.
eg: The withness' description is at odds with the police's.

ratchet up 增加
=> increase
eg: My boss really wants me to accept the promotion. so he's really ratcheted up the pressure.

integrate v. 使結合/使合併
integration n. 整合/合併
eg: The integration of creativity into the workplace helped the workers feel more important.
eg: We won't be able to make any decision until the integration of data is complete.
eg: The European integration is responsible for improving the economy of the whole region.

commitment n. 承諾
=> something you promise
eg: Ethan can't go with us tonight because he has a prior commitment.
eg: Sorry I can't stay for the party-I have a prior commitment.
eg: She's taken too many commitments and became exhausted.

integrator n. 整合之人
=> a person who integrate/bring different things together as a whole of something

separator n. 區分者

volleyer n.
=> A bursting forth of many things together

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intense adj. 激烈的/強烈的
eg: intense heat 酷熱

intense adj. 認真的/精神集中的
=> 時常用來形容人
eg: intense person 很嚴肅做事很拘謹的人
eg: intense study of English 專心的用功讀英文
eg: intense separation 強烈的分離

intensive adj. 集中的/密集的
=> highly concentrate
=> the person vs. the world
=> 幾乎都是用來形容外在的事物
eg: intensive care unit 加護病房
eg: intensive bombardment 密集的砲擊
eg: an intensive English course 英文密集班

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But a volleyer will jump back into other commitments and relationships during downtimes.
=> But a volleyer will jump back into other commitments and relationships when things are not so busy.

downtime 停工期
= down time
=> a period of time that you are not so active

eg: Teresa had been so busy with work that she found her sudden downtime to be a blessing.
eg: Many people have chosen to go back to school to get another degree during this economic downtime.