You will attain life balance when you enjoy and thrive in all three of your lives simultaneously without guilt or conflict.  Life balance is very personal and different for everyone.  Many people strive to attain life balance.  Yet few people know what life balance really would look like to them, nor how to attain it.

Our three lives determine our life balance.

Work Life.  Our work related life consists of what we do to earn an income to provide resources to live and prosper.  Yet we gain much more from work.  We gain financial and social status.  We gain feelings of accomplishment, belonging, power, acceptance, praise and fame, enjoyment, and even feelings of contributing to the good and welfare of our fellow man.  The emotional gains from our work often provide far more benefit than the money we earn.

Family Life.  Our family life consists of our relationships with the blood relatives we decide to keep, our loved ones including spouses and children, and our chosen friends, that we allow inside our inner circle.  We gain the blessings of loving and being loved.  We also gain full acceptance, support, belonging, social status, and protection.

Personal Life.  Our personal life consists of our health; our inner private likes and dislikes, our spiritual feelings, our values and integrity, and our inner beliefs.  Our personal life encompasses who we are, our character, what we stand for, and how we treat ourselves.  We discover our inner relationship with our God, and our personal boundaries to protect our integrity and beliefs.  We gain our personal health and well being, and our self-esteem to live and enjoy ourselves.

As you can imagine each of these lives will attract our interests and can create various demands on our time, resources, and energy. When these lives create demands that compete with the other, such that we must choose one at the expense of the other, on a continuous basis, we get out of balance. The three lives of each of us are very different and personal to each of us. Thus life balance will be very different for each of us.

How we achieve life balance.

Each of us much discover our own idea of what life balance really is before we can take the steps to create our special life balance conditions.  We must look into ourselves to discover our own passions, priorities and desires, beliefs and values, and our own reverse passions (what we are passionate about not doing.)  When we fully understand these important inner motivating ingredients, we will be able to clarify how they fit together into our personal order of priorities.  Then we can create the conditions around us to allow us to fulfill our own passions, follow our beliefs and values, avoid our reverse passions, so that we will lead our three lives on our own clarified priority scale with confidence.  We will be able to pursue the actions that give us the greatest internal rewards based upon our newly discovered importance rating.  We will also be able to set clearer and stronger boundaries to protect us from the imposition of agendas and demands by outside forces.  We will be in our own zone within our own terms.

The characteristics and benefits of attaining life balance.

Attaining life balance is not a selfish act.  In fact, attaining life balance will allow us to have the conflict free energy and focus to give additional love and support to the people who mean the most to us.  We will be able to devote more conflict free energy and effort into our work and our own health.  We will produce better and more quality results in all three of our lives during the process.  Sure, we will be constantly challenged with the imposition of additional outside forces that will compete with our own priorities.  We will also find that our definition of life balance will change dramatically over time as our own personal situations and priorities change.  Therefore, the journey to achieve life balance will be continuously changing.  We will feel out of balance from time to time.  That is life.  But, if we continue to look inside ourselves and be honest with who we really are and what our currant priorities really are, we will get back on course.  The trip towards life balance changes with time and the rewards of achieving it are well worth the effort.

Using a life coach to achieve life balance.

You will be able to dramatically accelerate the self-discovery aspect of attaining life balance by engaging the services of your best-suited life coach.  In addition you and your life coach will operate as a highly focused team to design and create the conditions of life balance to personally suit you.  You will discover and achieve your life balance goals much more accurately and completely with much less effort and time required by using a life coach.