Reduce Screen Time
This is Part 6 in the Apt Design 2011 Ebook Series – Creating Work/Life Balance. Click here to get the book and see the whole series. Finding time away from work used to be about “unplugging.” No more. Now we have numerous ways we can be literally “unplugged” while still be hooked into the stream [...]
Series Break
Taking a dose of my own work/life balance medicine tonight and not going to finish the post for tomorrow. Posting a publishing schedule has been good to force me to write this series, but I think this is the perfect opportunity to put the balance idea into affect. We should be resuming next week with [...]
Slow Down
This is Part 5 in the Apt Design 2011 Ebook Series – Creating Work/Life Balance. Click here to get the book and see the whole series. You move fast. Admit it. Much of the time, maybe most of the time, you hit the floor running and don’t get a break till you climb into bed [...]
Separate Work and Life
This is Part 4 in the Apt Design 2011 Ebook Series – Creating Work/Life Balance. Click here to get the book and see the whole series. Putting in 12-hour days. Constantly being stressed about work. Not being able to sleep because you’re thinking about your job. Not spending quality time with your loved ones because [...]
Guard Your Time
This is Part 2 in the Apt Design 2011 Ebook Series – Creating Work/Life Balance. Click here to get the book and see the whole series. Now that you know what you want in life and you’ve set your priorities based on that, its time to start making changes that will get you to that [...]
Set Your Priorities
This is Part 2 in the Apt Design 2011 Ebook Series – Creating Work/Life Balance. Click here to get the book and see the whole series. Now that you’ve decided what you want for your life, its time to start prioritizing your time and energy to achieve that life. Your Priorities I’m big on creating [...]
Know What You Want
This is Part 1 in the Apt Design 2011 Ebook Series – Creating Work/Life Balance. Click here to get the book and see the whole series. Does it sometimes feel like you’re running the rat-race full-tilt and yet you don’t even know why you’re doing it? So many of us don’t know what we want [...]
The 2011 Apt Design Ebook – Creating Work/Life Balance
Creating a healthy work/life balance is something I’m very passionate about – both for myself and for other people (I’ve written about it here and here). Today hundreds of thousands of employees across the world are feeling constantly overworked and stressed about their jobs. At the same time many feel like they don’t have the time [...]
Overtime Guest Blog on Zen Family Habits
Zenhabits.net is one of my favorite blogs, and its sister site zenfamilyhabits.net is a great resource for healthy, positive, simple, loving families. Today I have a guest post published on zenfamilyhabits.net entitled How to Make Overtime Work for You. Most of us will experience working overtime at some point in our lives. My post shows [...]

Working with a Team
2010 was the Year of Teams for me. Though I’ve worked at a design company besides being a solo freelancer, I hadn’t really worked on a design team since college. But 2010 found me working a lot on teams, both as a subcontractor for others and as a boss with subcontractors working for me. It [...]
