download Beyond the Law aka Fixing The Shadow dvd Who doesn’t want to find a more effective way of handling the ups and downs and overwhelms endemic in a busy work life?  Add to that the domestic responsibilities you oversee for household management, childcare, social planning and it’s no wonder that you want to take off for a Carribbean cruise on the next ship leaving.

Chicken Run release For over fifteen years, I’ve both coached and spoken frequently on the topic of balance.  Recently I gained another perspective on it that came from a day in the park while babysitting a niece who was on the teeter-totter (see-saw to some), that had me drift into thinking about ”balance.”  Here are a few of the thoughts that came to me that should help you to become more proficient with it:

1.  What does a teeter-totter do?  It goes up and down.  Notice how it’s easy to come down, but requires some push to go up.  It’s often this push that people resist.  “Why can’t it be as easy as coming down?” you might say.  Accept that balance has both a work component along with the effortlessness, rather than expecting effortlessness most of the time. This can offer you some freedom in how you view your energy output, especially when you’re met with challenges that require you to stop and contribute unexpected bursts of energy.

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What is this thing called “Balance” that we seek?Aside from it’s regulating measure and weight definitions, Webster uses these three definitions used here to address this inner need we have ”to bring into harmony or proportion” our lives.  Like everyone else, I have days focused on trying to attain stability between productive actions and satisfying restfulness ? trying to get over the have-to-stuff and get on to the good-stuff.  Can you equalize these scales in life? 

Clients seek this answer to maintain a ”state of equilibrium,” and when they can’t find it they look hard to find the “influence counteracting the effect of another,” to bring them back to a more satisfying existence.  There wouldn’t be definitions for this if it weren’t the human condition.  And in coaching I can be helpful to someone who wants to identify their deepest interests and values and live more true to them.  Yet, my short answers from my own experience are these:

1. Find out what you love to do the most and do it as much as you can. (visiting family, being in nature, engaging in creative projects, meditating, exercising, laughing, etc.

2. Love whatever you do the most (when you’re working-do it joyfully-find stimulation in the tasks at hand and welcome new challenges.  When you’re with others-decide when it’s important to be fully focused on them more than on a mutual exchange.  Become curious and renew your relationships this way.  If you’re washing dishes, enjoy the simplicity inherent in the act itself, rather than hurrying to get it over with, etc.)

It’s not what’s around the bend in the road or even the mountaintop – it’s the road itself.

How do you satisfy your balance needs?