my,life,and,work

篇一：Finding Balance Between Work and Life

Finding Balance Between Work and Life 在工作和生活中间找到平衡

After the illness, then death, of a close family friend within a much too short six week period of time, I began to ponder the fragilityof life and the limited time we have here on earth... When faced with our own mortality, many of us wonder if we have made the right choices about our lives and what other paths we could have chosen.

在短短的六个星期内，经历了一个亲朋好友的病痛，死亡之后，我就开始思考生命的脆弱，以及我们到底有多少有限的时间。当我们面临死亡的那一刻，我们中的大部分人都想知道在一生中做出的选择是否都是正确的，如若不然，我们还有些什么样的其他选择。

Consider Options 考虑其他的选择

It is important to take the time to consider our options and to evaluate the choices so that we have time to work, time to play and time to make sure our life is as fulfilling as it can be. After all, the time we do have to "get it right" is limited. Sister Jean C. Peters, CSJ says in the CSJ Newsline "I do not suggest that hard work has no place in our lives, but it cannot have the only place. A sense of leisure and a spirit of play need space in us as well".

花一些时间去考虑、评估我们做出的选择是很重要的，因为这样我们才有时间去工作，娱乐，才能确保我们的生活过得最充实。毕竟，我们能够“做对”的时间是有限的。Jean C. Peters在CSJ新闻纵横上说：“虽然我不并不建议生命中不要努力工作，但是努力工作也不应该占据生活中的唯一位置。我们也需要一点悠闲的时间，一种游戏的精神。”

Achieve Balance 达到平衡

How do we achieve balance in our lives? It takes planning and it takes action. A friend of mine recently downgraded her job, cut her hours (and her paycheck) so she could pick up her daughter from school several times a week. It wasn't easy, but, she set up a budget and, with planning, calculated how she could live on her reduced income.

在生活中我们怎么才能达到平衡呢？要有计划和行动。最近我有一位朋友，减少了自己的工作量，工作时间和薪水，为的是每周有时间去学校接女儿放学。这是很不容易的，但是她制定了一份预算计划，合理地分配了符合缩水后薪水的生活消费。

Flexible Work Options 灵活的工作选择

Flexible schedule is another option. Working some hours in the office and some hours at home allows for more time with the family. Spending some of my work hours at home has benefited my employer - we now have email coverage on evenings and weekends rather than strictly during office hours. For those of us who do work from home setting limits is important. For some telecommuters, designated office hours have helped manage their time. Job Sharing is an another alternative - two people can often share one position.

灵活的工作制度是另外一个选择。在办公室里上几个小时的班，在家里多待点时间。我在家里工作也让我的上司获益，现在我们在晚上甚至周末都可以互通邮件，而不是按照严格的上班规定时间。对于在家工作的大部分人来说设置时限是很重要的。对于一些远程工作者来说，指定的工作时间可以帮助他们很好的管理自己的时间。工作分担是另外一种选择，两个人可以经常换工作做。

Keep in mind that the worst that can happen if you ask your boss about flexible work options is that he can say no. If you don't ask, you won't have a chance. If you do, you may just be pleasantly surprised.

要记住，你开口向你的老板提出弹性工作制度的最坏结果只是他的拒绝。但是如果你不问的话，你连机会都没有。如果你开口问了，或许有意想不到的惊喜。

Make a Move 行动起来

More dramatic measures are sometimes in order. Several years ago, Michael Landes, author of the Back Door Guide to Short-Term Adventures started a new life engaging in short-time work experiences. Michael recently told me that "It was all these short-term job adventures that allowed me to grow into this phase and open my eyes to what I really wanted - BALANCE in my career, life, relationships, and home. It's as if I came full circle I left my secure job, home, relationship, and community six years ago to explore the world (along with nurturing my dream and passion - my book, and everything that comes with that). The work component had really consumed my life. Now is the time to go back to what I left - but with fresh eyes and a new perspective... We will have phases through our entire life where one area will rise above the other - the key, however, is BALANCE."

还有很多有效地达到平衡的方法。几年以前，Back Door Guide to Short-Term Adventures一书的作者Michael Landes开始尝试了一种短时间工作的经历。最近他告诉我说：“就是因为有

这些短期工作的经验，我才能够达到今天的地步，我才能找到我真正想要的。在我的事业，生活，人际关系，和家庭生活之间找到平衡。就好像一个循环一样，六年前，为了探知一个未知的新世界，我离开了有保障的工作，家庭，抛弃了所有的关系。工作真的毁了我的生活。而现在，又回到了我离开前的样子了，唯一不同的是新鲜的看法和不同的观点。我们的整个生命进程中，都会有不同的阶段此起彼伏，而关键就是找到平衡。

Balance is possible and well worth the effort sometimes required to achieve it. After all, we really don't have forever.

找到平衡是有可能的，有时候是值得努力去达到这个平衡的。毕竟，我们没有永远。

篇二：牛津8A Module One My life Unit Two Work and play

Module One My life Unit Two Work and play

词组及句子

1. one of the top students / one of the best students 优等生之一

拓展：one of + (adj.最高级)+ n.复数 ……之一

基数词--序数词 （基数词）>1 序数词+“s”

one-fourth / a quarter 四分之一

one-second / a half 二分之一

three-fourths / three quarters 四分之三

2. work in her business 在她的公司里工作

拓展：business n. 公司 ，生意

It’s none of your business! 不管你的事！

in business 经商 on business 办理事务

busy adj. 忙的

be busy with sth. 忙于某事

be busy (in / with) doing sth. 忙于干某事

3. get up early 早起

拓展： go to bed late 睡得晚

4. put on my school uniform 穿上校服

拓展： wear my school uniform 穿着校服

take off 脱下

put… on … 放在…上

5. write computer games 编写电脑游戏

6. be responsible for sth. 对某事物负责

拓展：be in charge of / take charge of 管理某事

被…管理

7. drive sb. to sp. 开车送某人去某地

拓展：fly to sp. 乘飞机去某地

drive oneself to sp. 自己开车去某地

8. on the way 在路上

拓展： in the way 挡路

by the way 顺带说一句（语气词）

in a way 某个方面，在某种意义上

on one’s way home 在某人回家的路上

on one’s way to school 在某人上学的路上

9. start school 开始上学

拓展：start to do sth. / start doing sth.

begin to do sth. / begin doing sth. 开始干某事

10. too simple for me 多我来说太简单

拓展：too +adj.原级+to do sth. 太…而不能干某事

too+adj.原级+for sb. +to do sth. 对某人来说太…而不能干某事

not+adj.(反) +enough+for sb.+ to do sth. 对某人来说不够…而干某事 so+adj.原级+that …can’t…（从句） 如此…因此…不能…

11. I never fail an exam. 我从未在考试上失败过。

拓展：fail to do sth. 未能干某事 （don’t do sth.）

failure n. 失败

12. twice a week 一周两次 （how often 提问）

拓展：twice 两次 （how many times 提问）

13. collect me from school 到学校接我

拓展：collect sth. from sp. 从某地收集某物

collection n.[c] 收集品

14. after school 放学后

15. on Fridays = every Friday 每周五 (how often 提问)

拓展：on Friday (when 提问)

16. ask sb. to do sth. 要求某人干某事

拓展：ask sb. not to do sth. 要求某人不要干某事

17. assist sb. /help sb. 帮助某人

拓展：assistant / helper n. 助手

18. finish one’s homework 完成家作

拓展：do one’s homework 做家作

finish off 结束，完成，完全吃光；[口] 干掉，杀死

finish up 结束，用光

finish with 完成；与……断绝关系

19. continue doing sth. 继续干某事 （同一件事情）

拓展：continue to do sth. 继续干某事（另外一件事情）

20. need sth. 需要某物（need v.）

拓展：don’t need sth. 不需要某物

(don’t) need to do sth. (不)需要干某事

need ( not) do sth. （不）须要干某事 （need 情态动词） in bad need of sth. 急需某物 （need n. 需要）

21. Luckily, they are very popular. 幸运地，他们很受欢迎。

拓展：luck n. 运气 Good luck! 祝好运！

lucky adj. 有运气的 I’m a lucky dog! 我是个幸运儿！

luckily adv. 幸运地

adj.变adv.规则：

① 直接+ly e.g. beautiful – beautifully wonderful – wonderfully

② 辅音字母+y 结尾， 去y +ily e.g. lucky – luckily happy – happily ③ le结尾，去e +y e.g. simple – simply possible – possibly

④ adj. 与adv. 同形的 e.g. early fast hard

特殊形式：shy—shyly

popular 简写成 pop e.g. pop music 流行音乐

22. My dad is the manager of the company, and my mum is responsible for sales. 我爸是这家公司的经理，而我妈负责销售。

拓展：manage v. 管理 manager n. 经理

manage to do sth. 设法完成某事

sale n. 销售 on sale(s) 特价销售

sell v. ( sell – sold – sold )

23. I seldom go to bed before 11.30 p.m. 我很少在晚上11点30分前睡觉。

拓展： I don’t go to bed until 11.30 p.m. （not… until…基本结构）

It isn’t until 11.30 p.m. that I go to bed. (强调)

24. I do not usually need much sleep. 我通常不需要很多睡眠。

拓展：sleep v. 睡觉 （ sleep – slept – slept ）

n. 睡眠 go to sleep 入睡（状态） go to bed 上床睡觉（动作） sleepy adj. 困的，欲睡的

篇三：Effect of Research on My Life and Work Afterwards

Effect of Research on My Life and Work Afterwards

The most unforgettable thing in research work on my life is that I accompliashed a series of computer opearation system all by myself.What an interesting and moving event I encounted it is while thinking of it. Such an achievement can be praised by my schollmates, teachers, neighbors my friends as well as the whole families.

Praise and appraise play an increasing important role in my daily livf,This kind of phenomenon around us is very common and popular. Many people pursuit of achievement in their work by their hard efforts,which occupies completely them much time in the daily work and never have time with their families,not to mention rest for a while or do holidays.What importance is to achieve self-value for them.First and formost, I seek some material things by my own hands,at the same time I long for spirit things. Besides, I view the achievement as a double-edged affect, which presents me some opportunities as well challenges.The most important thing is that I devote myself to working and forming a good stand to accept it. Moreover, it make me well prepared to face the opportunities and challenges. Last and not least, there is an increasing belief in my heart to overcome any difficulties in the following work and accept new challenges without others consideration.

Afterwards, little achievement can give me even tremendous look. My following work is praised by the top leaders and is shared by common emplorees. All these things can attributed to my first step, which encourages me march on step by step.

篇四：work and life

Work And Life

I will expound this theme in four aspects.//

Work and life is just a couple .We work because we want to live happy lives .We live happy life need to work with full passion ,In all ,work plays an important role in our life.//

We value something ,such as family and friends ,we think a lot success and achievement.and we take reputation and others in heart too. //

I have being thinking for a long time what we do in our life .It’s a very important question for everyone.//

Always ,we start by being taught in school how to become good students. We spend a great part of our childhood studying.and finally we get the diploma that will ensure us “the position we deserve”.//

we participate the interview one by one ,through hard tests until we find a job,be accepted .We need a job to improve our circumstances ,but, if we just work but not enjoy life ,//

then we will be dull and bored,we can’t get pleasure or fun. Then life over!! //

Obviously we don’t want to live this way all life.SO an idea come to my mind on how to improve my life. //

I made a promise to be happy.I’m unique no one can take the place of me.I’ll never give up until I fulfill it.I’ll save more time to

enjoy my life. //

We should work hard in order to get a happy life.we make a lot of efforts.Finally we want to be rich and happy. //

When we have these spirits we can make a success,remember never disappoint to yourself !Just do it .Everything will be okay.

篇五：Nigel TED Speech Work life balance

Work-life balance, says Nigel Marsh, is too important to be left in the hands of your employer. Marsh lays out an ideal day balanced between family time, personal time and productivity — and offers some stirring encouragement to make it happen. (Filmed at TEDxSydney.) What I thought I would do is I would start with a simple request. I'd like all of you to pause for a moment, you wretched weaklings, and take stock of your miserable existence. (Laughter)

0:33Now that was the advice that St. Benedict gave his rather startled followers in the fifth century. It was the advice that I decided to follow myself when I turned 40. Up until that moment, I had been that classic corporate（<口>凸出的大肚子） warrior（战士，武士） -- I was eating too much, I was drinking too much, I was working too hard and I was neglecting the family. And I decided that I would try and turn my life around. In particular, I decided I would try to address the thorny issue of work-life balance. So I stepped back from the workforce, and I spent a year at home with my wife and four young children. But all I learned about work-life balance from that year was that I found it quite easy to balance work and life when I didn't have any work. (Laughter) Not a very useful skill, especially when the money runs out. 1:32So I went back to work, and I've spent these seven years since struggling with, studying and writing about work-life balance. And I have four observations I'd like to share with you talk so much rubbish about work-life balance. All the discussions about flexi-time or dress-down （穿便装，着朴素服装）Fridays or paternity leave only serve to mask the core issue, which is that certain job and . Now the first step in solving any problem is acknowledging the reality of the situation you're in. And the reality of the society that we're in is there are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them to buy things they don't need to impress people they don't like. (Laughter) (Applause)It's my contention that going to work on Friday in jeans and [a] T-shirt isn't really getting to the nub of the issue.

3:04(Laughter)

3:08The second observation I'd like to make is . We should stop looking outside If you don't design your life, someone else will design it for you, and you may just not like their idea of balance. It's particularly important -- this isn't on the World Wide Web, is it? I'm about to get fired -- it's particularly important that you never put the quality of your life in the hands of a commercial corporation. Now I'm not talking here just about the bad companies -- the "abattoirs ([??b?twɑ:(r)] 屠场)of the human soul," as I call them. (Laughter) I'm talking about all companies. Because commercial companies are inherently designed to get as much out of you [as] they can get away with. It's in their nature; it's in their DNA; it's what they do -- even the good, well-intentioned companies. On the one hand, putting childcare facilities in

the workplace is wonderful and enlightened. On the other hand, it's a nightmare --- it just means you spend more time at the bloody office. We have to be responsible for setting and enforcing the boundaries that we want in our life.

4:37The third observation is Before I went back to work after my year at home, I sat down and I wrote out a detailed, step-by-step description of the ideal balanced day that I aspired to. And it went like this: wake up well rested after a good night's sleep. Have sex. Walk the dog. Have breakfast with my wife and children. Have sex again. (Laughter) Drive the kids to school on the way to the office. Do three hours' work. Play a sport with a friend at lunchtime. Do another three hours' work. Meet some mates in the pub for an early evening drink. Drive home for dinner with my wife and kids. Meditate for half an hour. Have sex. Walk the dog. Have sex again. Go to bed. (Applause) How often do you think I have that day? (Laughter) We need to be realistic. You can't do it all in one day. We need to elongate（延长，加长）the time frame-upon which we judge the balance in our life, but we need to elongate it without falling into the trap of the "I'll have a life when I retire, when my kids have left home, when my wife has divorced me, my health is failing, I've got no mates or interests left." (Laughter) A day is too short; "after I retire" is too long. There's got to be a middle way.

6:36A fourth observation: We need to approach balance in a balanced way. A friend came to see me last year -- and she doesn't mind me telling this story -- a friend came to see me last year and said, "Nigel, I've read your book. And I realize that my life is completely out of balance. It's totally dominated by work. I work 10 hours a day; I commute two hours a day. All of my relationships have failed. There's nothing in my life apart from my work. So I've decided to get a grip (控制住自己)and sort it out. So I joined a more fit. (Laughter) Lovely though physical exercise may be, there are other parts to life -- there's the intellectual side; there's the emotional side; there's the spiritual side. And to be balanced, I believe we have to attend to all of those areas -- not just do 50 stomach crunches.

7:43Now that can be daunting. Because people say, "Bloody hell mate, I haven't got time to get fit. You want me to go to church and call my mother." And I understand. I truly understand how that can be daunting. But an incident that happened a couple of years ago gave me a new perspective. My wife, who is somewhere in the audience today, called me up at the office and said, "Nigel, you need to pick our youngest son" -- Harry -- "up from school." Because she had to be somewhere else with the other three children for that evening. So I left work an hour early that afternoon and picked Harry up at the school gates. We walked down to the local park, messed around on the swings, played some silly games. I then walked him up the hill to the local cafe, and we shared a pizza for two, then walked down the hill to our home, and I gave him his bath and put him in his Batman pajamas. I then read him a chapter of Roald Dahl's "James and the Giant Peach." I then put him to bed, tucked him in, gave him a kiss on his forehead and said, "Goodnight, mate," and walked out of his bedroom. As I was walking out of his bedroom, he said,

"Dad?" I went, "Yes, mate?" He went, "Dad, this has been the best day of my life, ever." I hadn't done anything, hadn't taken him to Disney World or bought him a Playstation.

9:08Now my point is the small things matter. Being more balanced doesn't mean dramatic upheaval (巨变，突变) in your life. With the smallest investment in the right places, you can radically transform the quality of your relationships and the quality of your life. Moreover, I think, it can transform society. Because if enough people do it, we can change society's definition of success away from the moronically (似痴愚的) simplistic notion that the person with the most money when he dies wins, to a more thoughtful and balanced definition of what a life well lived looks like. And that, I think, is an idea worth spreading.

9:55(Applause)

Some Comments from the Ted website:

有部纪录片名字叫《Koyaanisqatsi》（《失去平衡的生活》中文译名），主题就是现代工业文明对于自然环境的破坏。竞争、对于资源的无限制掠夺成为现在生活的原罪。安宁闲适的农耕文化生活被现代社会拦腰截断。

执着于生活与梦想的极端主义者，呼吁大家每天工作四小时，不去旅行会死，间隔年，自由职业，秉持内心感受。纠结于现实和工作狂们，尊崇及时赚钱，快速退休，过上面朝大海，春暖花开的猪一样生活。

我的一个朋友，找工作的第一原则是每年要有一个月的年假，不然不予考虑。这极大的减少了工作的可选范畴。最后她去了一家跨国咨询公司。2年之后，她质疑，为了一个月的出游，11个月每天超过11小时的工作，这是自己想要的生活吗？另外一个朋友，聚会上常常说起，最想去希腊，说等条件成熟了，就会出发。我问他，什么时候算条件成熟。他不假思索，事业有成，生活无忧。现在工作生活太苦逼。不过他也知道，往返希腊的机票不到他每月工资的一半。

辞职旅行、换工作、怀抱着其实触手可及的梦想惴惴度日，都认为生活无非是硬币的一面，或者头像、或者数字。其实不管那一面，都是固执的静态。生活不是一道单选题。多选才是丰富的生命形态。一枚硬币，只有竖立起来，才能转的动，转得快。

这篇演讲，主题就是工作与生活的平衡，分享了几点原则。

1、慎重选择你的职业。

很多职业选择都与和自己的家庭和谐相处产生矛盾与冲突。

我接触到的一个咨询公司朋友，在爱人即将生产前的一天还在甲方公司的办公室制作PPT，因为驻场办公是合同约定；一位市场督察，一个月有一半的时间在全国区域市场内巡场；一位公关总监准备生宝宝，但是工作却需要她推杯换盏，酒桌厮杀，无法封山育林；一位做快消品的促销经理，别人都休息的节庆日，他在督导促销政策的执行效果，无法回家团聚；作为一个警察，暴力执法时，被人拍下放在网上，孩子在学校被人鄙视和辱骂；家在南四环，上班却在北五环，每天穿城而过的

4小时让你到家根本没有心情与家人沟通情感、只是倒头就睡；你是一个政客，你的孩子却要从商，还借助你的权力牟利，而且被放在聚光灯下……

选择一个职业，就是选择一种生活。考虑清楚这份职业可能对你生活产生的重大影响，并且和爱人、孩子、父母探讨可能出现的问题。即使如此，一旦发现你已经无法忍受，还是赶紧离开的好。毕竟，工作只是谋生的手段，而不是生活本身。更何况，不知道有多少人在职业中痛苦的挣扎纠结着，目的只是为了赚钱去购买那些被路人艳羡的“名牌”。

2、仔细规划你的工作

不少研究表明，主动规划与被动工作之间的效果、体验是完全不同的。

你本来在沿着自己的工作轨迹安排事务，突然通知你十分钟后马上开一个会。甩给你一堆资料，根本来不及看，却要你在会上发表意见。你的感觉如何？你本来计划好年假，跟家人出去旅游。突然告诉你有一个新品上市计划，需要由你来接手负责，无法成行。你该如何？

一个无法改变的本质是：公司、工作掌控了你的生活——你的行为方式、你的生活质量、你的性生活、你对待家人的态度、甚至你的梦。不只有一个朋友告诉我，曾经做过上班迟到被主管骂、工作出纰漏被从十层扔下去、销售业绩提升10个百分点笑醒的各种稀奇古怪的梦。工作不但掌控了你的意识，还侵占了你的潜意识。所以每次听到某人大赞自己公司的人性、宽容与体贴，我总是本能的怀疑他被洗脑的程度、言辞的真实性和心理扭曲的内在。

平衡的基础是你对于生活和工作两方面的基本掌控。主动规划、圆满完成你的工作吧。这是一切平衡的起点。

让你参加突发会议时，你在这一领域已经积累下必要的储备，加上临场的发挥，想必也坏不到那里去。准备度假，就要提前半年告诉领导你的机票已经订好，提前三个月告诉领导你的酒店已经OK,提前一个月写好请假报告，提前一周写好交接清单和紧急联络方式，更重要的是提前把手头的工作圆满完成。

3、渐变、微调、速赢，不要剧烈的颠覆与义无反顾。

现在越来越多的人，蛊惑于游记体书籍，书中充满着每一个人都可以、现在不做就晚了、年轻就是不后悔、不去会死等表述，还有包装成追寻自我与真正生活价值的gap year。实际上，真的不是每个人都可以，现在错过未来还有更多未知的风景、不去也不会死。对于大多数人来说，还没有足够的水平和能力去支撑以旅游来养活自己，否则这类书也不会如此热销。而且，一旦你真的去了，你会发现这是一个巨大的陷阱。

暂时没有时间和金钱去希腊的，不妨去博物馆看看欧洲珍品艺术展；没有办法辞职在家天天陪伴孩子的，不妨每周争取一天和孩子共进晚餐；不能去印度学倒立的，可以报一个小区附近的瑜伽班；无法和家人在节庆团聚的，可以提前和家人吃一个团圆饭，或者干脆申请转岗，在公司内找一个相对作息比较规律的职位；工作日繁忙无暇与家人交流的上班族，可以在周六全家出游。

最重要的是，马上行动。Albert

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