Achieving Balance in Life and Work

A balanced life is not about better time management. Time management techniques are only tools to enhance a balanced life. A truly balanced life is actually a state of mind. The keys to achieving a balanced life are awareness, truth and action.

First Five Steps to Balancing Your Life

1. Identify the imbalances in your life.
Ask yourself these two questions:

Ø What 5 things mean the most to me in my life?
Ø What 5 things consume most of my time?

Compare your two lists. If your life is balanced, the lists will match. If the lists don’t match, ask yourself:

Ø What can I START doing or STOP doing that will align these two lists?
Ø Take action.

2. Take extremely good care of yourself. No matter how badly you want to give to others – your family, your job, your community – if your cup is empty you won’t have anything to give. Keep your cup full by taking extremely good care of yourself.

Ø Schedule time to do things you ENJOY. Make it simple and easy. Take a walk. Read a book. Go to the gym.
Ø Discover hidden opportunities to replenish yourself. Listen to your favorite music while driving home.
Ø CAUTION: Beware of SHOULDS creeping in! If you think you SHOULD go to the gym, re-evaluate.

3. Eliminate Tolerations and Incompletions. Tolerations are what you put up with at work and at home. Incompletions are unfinished business or relationships that ended without closure. Tolerations and incompletions steal your energy. Recapture that energy by eliminating tolerations and incompletions.

Ø Make a list of 10 things that you are putting up with at work and at home. Start eliminating the tolerations one by one.
Ø Take the Clean Sweep Assessment Tool to determine how much energy you are losing to incompletions. Take action. Add 10 points to your Clean Sweep score in 30 days.
Ø Set boundaries. Boundaries are the imaginary lines we draw around ourselves to protect our souls, hearts and minds from the behaviors of others that we find unacceptable. For most of us, it is not acceptable for someone to hit us. Drawing the line against physical violence represents a boundary. Strong personal boundaries create the space you need to grow and to be happy.

Ø Apply this principle to all aspects of your life. Rather than doing something because you think you “Should” do it, draw a boundary and politely say “No”.
Ø Pick 3 tolerations from your list and establish a boundary for each one.

5. Kick the Adrenaline Lifestyle. Do you find yourself constantly rushing from one thing to another? Do you overpromise then rush to get it done at the last minute? Do you drive faster than the speed limit and tailgate? If you answered “Yes” to any of these questions, you are living the Adrenaline Lifestyle. STOP.

Ø Take the Adrenaline Addict Self-Test.
Ø Identify one Adrenaline Trigger to eliminate from your life.
Ø Take action.


O.K. I’ve got the First Five Steps. What’s Next?

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