We wake up with a smile on our face, committed to take on the day and all of it’s excitement, pleasures, and yes..sometimes sharp darts that are hurled our way. Deep down, we really want to make time for our relationships, our careers, our health, finances, our spirituality, and more…but with so much going on, some areas get a lot more love then others, don’t ya think?

Living life in balance is when you can sprinkle your attention in all areas effectively. Where you’re happy and fulfilled in all areas of your life. Of course, no one is perfect and I personally think there is a small percentage of the world who is living life 100% on EVERY level, however we all can come VERY close to it if we truly try.

In this issue, I’m happy to share with you the latest podcast where Own Your Power interviews coach Sylvia Warren of www.simplythebestcoaching. She’ll share key secrets on how to live in balance and I know you’ll enjoy it. Take a listen to it here…

We’d love your opinion too..Do you think work-life balance is just some fairy tale that only the wealthy can achieve or are you living it? Join the rest of the OWN YOUR POWER COMMUNITY and let us know what you think about the topic of balance. Have you mastered it or are you in need of our advice. Let’s connect, share and uplift one another. Join us in the forum: Is balance a bunch of bull!CLICK HERE.

I also found a great article on the topic I’d like to share…Take a look and let me know what you think!

Own Your Power!

Simone

The Value of Balance
It rarely works to compare our lives, our bodies, our achievements with anyone else’s. One person’s imbalance is another person’s bliss.By Bahram Akradi(EXPERIENCE LIFE MAGAZINE)
If you were to ask me for a single word that describes something essential to all types of success - in life, health, business, finance, relationships - that word would be “balance.”

It’s easy to make a case for balance, because without it, even our best intentions and most vigorous efforts can quickly become counterproductive and profoundly unsatisfying. The challenge with balance, of course, is not so much in talking about it, but in achieving it — and maintaining it over time. And the precursor to that challenge is identifying what it means to us, personally.

When problems arise in a given sector of our life, it’s often a sign that an imbalance is present: We’re exercising too much, or not enough. We’re obsessing about a relationship, or ignoring it. We’re mono-focused on work, or we’ve lost professional passion. We’re being overly generous with our time, money and other resources, or we’ve gotten downright selfish.

If we slow down enough to really look at any one area of our life, we can generally do a pretty good job evaluating whether it feels appropriately balanced. It may be as simple as asking: Is this part of my life rife with problems, or headed in a direction that doesn’t seem sustainable? Given even a cursory review, one imbalanced life aspect will stand out like a burned-out letter on a neon sign.

We can then look across all these areas and ask, is there balance between them? Is my career totally dialed in at the expense of my health, which is currently getting a busy signal? Are my personal relationships suffering at the expense of the many hours I’m devoting to charity work? Am I so focused on perfecting my own life that I’m tuned out to what’s going on around me — with my family, community and the world at large?

Successfully doing this kind of broad analysis requires a deep level of self-knowledge, because you must know and be comfortable with what “balanced” is for you. Read rest of story here…