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\f0\fs24 \cf0 I'm Steve Turkiewicz, president and CEO of the Montana Bankers Association,
sharing with you my thoughts on work-life balance. I think for a lot of us, the first
realization is it is not an issue of a scale of work on one side and life on the other.
It's a continuum. Our busy schedules, our demands, our priorities, don't give us the
opportunity to look at work and personal life as a zero-sum game. It has to be done on a
daily basis. I think for many of us, the way we've become successful is planning our work,
prioritizing, and executing, and I think we have to do the same thing for our personal
lives as well. And sometimes that's a little foreign to people because, gosh, life should
be spontaneous. We should just be able to live life. But with our responsibilities,
with the things that we have to do, with the demands of our time with our families, with
our work, with our communities, it just takes time. I think we have to look at our personal
life the same way we have to look at our work life and make priorities of what's important,
plan around those priorities, and then execute. We've found in our family one of the most
helpful things is the Outlook calendar. We review that on a monthly basis and try to
plug in those times that we know that we're going to have vacation time or we're going
to have family activities and that way they don't compete with the schedule that we have
set up at work. And that takes a little bit of effort, that takes a little bit of work,
but it's the only way I think that people are going to have the opportunity to have
their daily lives be successful, productive, satisfying both from work and personal life.
Also it's an issue of health and nutrition. I have found, especially I have the benefit
of being able to participate in our health program that we offer our members and their
families and we've integrated wellness as part of that and also as a daily wellness
look we provide challenges and programs and resources for our members and their families
to look at wellness and nutrition, exercise and relaxation on a daily basis. We do this
through challenges, we do this through workbooks that we provide them, But for each of us sitting
down and being able to have a good breakfast, eating the right foods throughout the day,
taking 15 minutes to get away from the cell phone, get away from the iPad and just a little
time for themselves. Go outside, walk around the block, sit down in a room that doesn't
have all of those distractions. One of the things I've found that's pretty interesting
is that most of our mobile devices have both have an "on-off" switch. When you can turn
it off, you're not being bothered. And secondly if there's information on there that you need
to be working on the airplane mode works almost everywhere, so you don't have to be tied in
there. But I think the key is the discipline and recognizing that we have to integrate
personal life and business life throughout the day. And take the time to devote to our
personal life and planning and executing and being productive in that area and prioritizing
those types of activities are just as important as doing the same thing in your work life.
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