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Your Choice, Your Voice: Quality or Quantity: What’s most important for a healthy family?

Posted by 
Jennifer M. Ryan, M.Ed.
 on February 26th, 2009


“Tom Coughlin Retires From Family To Spend More Time With Team”

Doesn’t it sometimes feel like this is what we’ll just have to do, in order to make it all WORK?

We’re all busy with work, , kids, and social lives.  We also engage in a balancing act between all the roles we play in our lives.

As we’re pulled in many directions on a daily basis, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to focus on what REALLY matters?  What if you could design your life so that you spend just the right amount of time, in just the right way, so that you could stop feeling like a tug-of-war rope, and even have time for yourself?

The essentials of a happy life are fewer than we think, if we are able to find the right balance between time and quality.

Quality or Quantity?  What’s most important for a healthy ?

Please voice your thoughts in the comments section.

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