Work-Life Balance

(What is it and how do you get it?)

Work-life balance is big news right now. In fact, it's becoming another "holy grail" we're told we should work to achieve. We read how-to articles and join pottery classes, or take up yoga. Some of us might even feel guilty that we don't have it.

But hang on a minute - what actually IS work-life balance? How can you tell when you've got it? And once you have it, then what?

The media tends to talk about work-life balance as if it is a fixed and somehow predetermined state. And if you've ever crossed a stream on stepping-stones, and found the wobbly one, you'll know that a point of balance does exist.

But it's a point you move through and around, away from and back again. Balance is dynamic, not static.

And another thing. Isn't work part of life? The term "work-life balance" itself suggests that "work" is something separate to "life". Like you're not living while you're at work? Perhaps, as well as less work in your life, you might also consider how you can get more life in your work?

I'd like to suggest that the issue here is not about time. It's about how much of ourselves we bring to all of the different things we do.

And, it's about where you put your attention

So where to start? Well, how about a Work-Life Balance Tune-Up.

You may also like to read about the Results Agency Model for a Healthy Work-style and discover how work-life balance is only part of the story...

Or, to really get to grips with the issue, take a whole life approach with a "Well-being Makeover".

In the meantime, here are some questions to get you thinking...

• What does it feel like when you move towards balance? When you move away? What happens? What do you experience?

• What could you add to (or subtract from) your life that would enable you to feel more contented?
• What could you do differently at work that would help to make it somewhere you felt fully alive?

Perhaps you have a question for me right now........ Ask me .........