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The Balanced Life E-course: Ready for a balanced life?
Is Your Work/Life Balance Way Out of Kilter?
Maintaining a balance between job and family is getting more and more difficult these days. If you're struggling to keep up at work and at home, feeling guilty that you're shortchanging both, and resentful that you can't even think of spending time on you, the Balanced Life self-study E-course can help.
Have You Tried to Get Your Life in Balance with Time Management and Multi-tasking?
Though time management has a useful role in a balanced life, it's definitely not the primary means for getting your life back in balance.Time with your friends and family shouldn't seem like occasional freebies from work. The Balanced Life E-course shows you how to first address the fundamental building blocks of life balance and then use time management skills to fine tune.
And forget multi-tasking. Researchers are discovering that multi-tasking is actually part of the life imbalance problem.
The Issues of Work/Life Balance
How did we get here? The combination of widespread corporate downsizing and a culture of acquiring/consuming has left millions of people struggling to keep up. Trying to do it all, have it all, and be it all.
Marketing messages show smiling, happy people with big homes, big cars, active families, and busy jobs somehow doing it all. When we try to copy this lifestyle we find out it's no fun, nearly impossible to pull off, highly frustrating, and deeply depressing. Looking for help, we buy the newest technology - smart phone, web browser, text messenger - only to find that seems to compound the problem.
The Foundations of a Balanced Life
But the problem of life imbalance can be solved. The Balanced
Life
E-course shows you how to identify the unique building blocks of your
balanced life. Ten weekly self study classes include personalized
exercises
to help you integrate 
the basic concepts of life
balance into your
unique
life circumstances. You'll learn to build your life on a sound base of
Life Purpose, your Passions, and your special Powers.
Complementing these
three
fundamentals, you'll build an even stronger base for balance with the
lessons
on Principles and Perspectives. The addition of five life skills
provides the
tools to maintain life balance once achieved. All this in ten lessons
delivered to your email inbox weekly.
How Balanced is Your Life?
The free Life Balance Worksheet is your first step toward a balanced life. It will help you assess your own life balance and this free, three page self assessment is yours to keep simply by filling in your name and email address in the box below. The Worksheet includes instructions and an example enabling you to quickly get a clear, visual picture of the state of your life balance.
What is a Balanced Life?
Though everyone talks about life balance, and we can easily commiserate with someone whose life is way out of balance, in reality a balanced life is uniquely individualized for each person. The Balanced Life E-course will help you get a clear picture of your balanced life based on your unique life circumstances. With a clear vision in mind the Balanced Life E-course helps you to construct your fundamental building blocks of balance. Hear Jerry's response to an interviewer's question, "What is life balance?"
A balanced life is not a destination, it's a
journey. Life can
be chaotic
at times with events and circumstances intruding when we least expect
them,
throwing even a well balanced life into disarray.
With the clear understanding of the fundamental building blocks and skills of life balance you'll receive from the Balanced Life E-course, you'll know how to bring your life into balance and keep it there.
When you order the ten week Balanced Life E-course, the first lesson will appear in your email box within minutes. The remaining nine lessons will arrive automatically at one week intervals. Work at your own pace, in the comfort of your own home, where you'll likely begin to see some results in the first week.
Benefits of a Balanced Life
Why all the fuss about life balance? Because we've found, much
to our
chagrin and disappointment, that loads of money, lots of material
acquisitions, multiple shallow relationships, and successfully climbing
a
career ladder don't make us happy. In fact, among Western cultures
where
standards of living are at their highest, depression is also at an all
time
high.
A balanced life is one way of describing a life of well being. Well being implies generally being happy, having meaningful work, fulfilling relationships, generally good health in mind and body, and overall satisfaction that life feels right and flows naturally.
How do you get a Balanced Life?
How hard is it to have a balanced life? I won't insult your intelligence and tell you it will be effortless and immediate. If it was that easy, you'd have accomplished it already. A balanced life is the result of having knowledge of the components of living that balance our lives coupled with the skill of tailoring these building blocks to your own uniqueness. The Balanced Life E-course presents this information in easily understood, clear language. Each lesson's exercises and homework (yes, there are assignments each week) are designed to help you fully understand and apply what you're learning.The forty minute audio below provides an introduction to some of the components that contribute to your balanced life. This audio is drawn from a workshop I presented at a recent Universal Light Expo.
Listen to Bringing Life Into Balance
Order Now to Begin Your Life Balance Journey
Begin your ten week journey of Life Balance. Your first lesson is only minutes away. Your first movement toward a balanced life may be just as close. Ten Life Balance lessons, loads of personalized exercises, free email access for questions, all this at a great value.
The Balanced Life E-course, Week by Week
- Week 1 - Starting Point. Self assess your state of balance and identify starting steps.
- Week 2 - Vision. The importance of clarifying your personal balanced life vision.
- Week 3 - Purpose. The role life purpose plays as your underlying support structure.
- Week 4 - Passion. Not your love life, but the parts of your life filled with energy, enthusiasm, and excellence.
- Week 5 - Power. Learn your unique and special abilities that set you apart from others and how important this is to a balanced life.
- Week 6 - Principles and Perspectives. The role that your values and beliefs play in life balance.
- Week 7 - Balance Life on Your Five P's. How to construct a solid and balanced foundation of your Purpose, Passions, Powers, Principles, and Perspectives.
- Week 8 - Introduction of Two of the Five Critical Life Skills: Positive Thinking and Utilizing Powers.
- Week 9 - The Life Skills of Self Awareness and Setting Boundaries.
- Week 10 - The Final Life Skill of Time Management; includes an overall course summary and ongoing activities for maintaining a balanced life.
Order Now and Begin Your Life Balance Journey
Building Blocks of a Balanced Life
A balanced, fulfilling life is not about how much you earn,
how many hours
you work, or the extent of your social life. A balanced life is more
about
how you feel about your life than what you do in your life. This is
important. What you do in your life, the roles and responsibilities
that
exemplify what your life is all about, are not the cause of your life
balance, nor of the lack
of it. What you do and how you
feel about what
you
do is a result of the degree to which you are aligned with the critical
building blocks of living, what I call in the Balanced Life E-course
your
five P's: Purpose, Passions, Powers, Principles, and Perspectives. A
Balanced
Life is a life with roles and responsibilities of daily living
supported
firmly on the structure of well defined and aligned five P's.
You'll learn more about your unique five P's and how they can balance your life as you work through the exercises and examples of the Balanced Life E-course. Listen to Jerry describe the five P's.
The Fundamental Role of Life Purpose in a Balanced Life
Life purpose is the fundamental underlying structural building block of a balanced life. I can't stress enough how important it is to understand your unique purpose in life and how to build your balanced life soundly upon purpose. Purpose has very little to do with what you do. Purpose is not about what you do for a living. Nor is it about what you do for fun. And life purpose is certainly not about your relationships. What it is all about is who you are.
Life Purpose is all about who you are being.
The following four minute audio provides more on Life Purpose, the two questions every human being asks at some time in life, and the importance of purpose to a fulfilling, balanced life.
Listen to Jerry on Life Purpose