Get Financially Fit! | Self-Care

Recharging your batteries is an important piece to achieving work-life balance. But some of the ways to recharge can be quite spendy—upwards of a couple hundred dollars! Can't afford pricey spa treatments or yoga retreats? Susan Johnston Taylor, contributor to U.S. News & World Report shares with us how to recharge for less—6 Ways to Treat Yourself on a Budget.

American consumers justify a myriad of expenditures under the guise of personal care, from massages and spa treatments to meditation retreats, yoga and adult coloring books. The massage therapy industry alone raked in an estimated $8 billion to $10 billion in the U.S. in 2013, according to the American Massage Therapy Association.

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6 Tips For Better Work-Life Balance

6 Tips For Better Work-Life Balance

Source:  http://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahlee/2014/10/20/6-tips-for-better-work-life-balance/

These days, work-life balance can seem like an impossible feat. Technology makes workers accessible around the clock. Fears of job loss incentivize longer hours. In fact, a whopping 94% of working professionals reported working more than 50 hours per week and nearly half said they worked more than 65 hours per week in a Harvard Business School survey. Experts agree: the compounding stress from the never-ending workday is damaging. It can hurt relationships, health and overall happiness.

Work-life balance means something different to every individual, but here health and career experts share tips to help you find the balance that’s right for you.

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