“The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.” That statement was made by Dr. Stephen R. Covey in a recent article in Frobes.com. Dr. Covey’s article was packed full of knowledge and from the thousands of audiences he has surveyed life balance is always at the top, or near it, of what their greatest personal and professional challenges are. In reference to Dr. Covey’s three things he listed that we each possess, I personally need to keep things simple and do them over and over to turn them into a part of my daily life.
Dr. Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People and co-founder of the FranklinCovey Company, had this to say in his recent column Work-Life Balance: A Different Cut in Forbes.com: “The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man. I’ve surveyed thousands of audiences about their greatest personal and professional challenges. Life balance is always at or near the top.”
Dr. Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People and co-founder of the FranklinCovey Company, had this to say in his recent column Work-Life Balance: A Different Cut in Forbes.com: “The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man. I’ve surveyed thousands of audiences about their greatest personal and professional challenges. Life balance is always at or near the top.”
Dr. Covey continued: “Much of my teaching and writing in this area has focused on the power each one of us possesses to: 1) take responsibility for, and become the creative force of, our lives; 2) decide what’s most important in our whole lives–developing a vision and deep commitment to the “first things” of life and; 3) to then put those first things first and organize our lives around our priorities. For something that seems so self-evident to most people, it’s remarkable how many of us struggle to translate our intellectual awareness into day-to-day practice and decision-making.”
Now, I’m not the word smith that Dr. Covey is, and I need to keep things very simple and keep doing them over and over again for them to be part of my everyday behavior. But I’ve been writing about this very thing in my Special Reports, E-book, and in my article Is it Possible to Have it All and Do it All?. My simple 3 steps are as follows:
- We step back and objectively look at what’s going on in our lives.
- We define what a balanced life looks like to us.
- We determine what’s most important to us and find ways to attain those things.
It may sound simple, but in its simplicity lies its beauty and effectiveness.
