Setting intentions and priorities for 2020
From the editor
Do you make New Year’s Resolutions? I do, though I call them intentions.
I make intentions throughout the year, most often at the beginning of each new season. I like to spend a few minutes with my journal, jotting down what I’d like to accomplish personally or professionally in the coming months, think about what didn’t work so well for me and my family over the past season, and ponder what I want to be different going forward.
My intentions are common enough, such as swim more or spend less. But one month, I wrote simply “less chaos, more calm.”
Therefore it was perfect timing for me when, in the latest issue of CU Management’s online-only publication, Advancing Women, we discussed the elusive work/life balance that most of us—but particularly women—find hard to achieve. I loved the tips that the women interviewed share, from scheduling “productivity time” on your calendar to rethinking who attends before- and after-work events on behalf of your credit union.
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