Do you know what work life balance is? Do you have it in your own life or do you see it as a mere myth meant for others to obtain?

Work life balance is the separation between your work life and your personal life. It is the boundary that you create between your profession, career, or business and every other segment that makes up your life. Aside from your career, these segments include your family, personal growth, spirituality, fitness and health, and community and friendships.

Once you begin to establish healthy boundaries between your work life and your personal life, you begin to feel more fulfillment and personal satisfaction. This happens as a result of your own state of wellness. Your mental state becomes much more confident, clear, and decisive because you are well-rounded and balanced.

By having a clear and consistent separation between your job and the other segments of your life, you enable yourself to truly be present in each realm of your life. You no longer worry about work projects while at home and don’t worry about things you need to do at home while at the office. This allows you to be sharper, more efficient, and better-focused. It also enables you to use your time more efficiently, be more effective with your communication, task completion, and decision making, and to enjoy your time at work much more than ever before.

Work life balance plays a huge role in determining whether a person will reach career advancement. This has been proven by studies and statistics which you will read about later in this book. The studies on work life balance are truly impressive and have been eye-opening to many employers.

“Work-life balance is now the second most important driver of employee attraction and commitment”, says Corporate Executive Board (CEB) research.

Studies done by CEB research also show that employees work much harder for companies that offer better work life balance. In the current economic environment, work life balance now ranks as one of the most important workplace attributes-second only to compensation, according to research conducted by the Corporate Executive Board among more than 50,000 global workers.

Did you know that employees who feel they have a better work-life balance tend to work 21% harder than those that don’t?(CEB Research).

According to the research done by CEB in 2006, 53% of employees felt they had a good work-life balance. Yet, that number plummeted to 30% in the first quarter of 2009.

Right now, the most successful organizations recognize that the most appreciated service they can provide to their employees is the “gift of time.” This is a very valuable nugget of information. It’s a great leverage tool for companies to use when hiring talent and for individuals looking for employment. Time can be a factor included in your compensation negotiations.

In fact, the study done by CEB showed that more than 60% of the employees polled identified flexible schedules as the most important work-life practice their employer could provide.

In essence, time is of incredible value to both employers and the employees today. Savvy employers are realizing this and using work life balance programs and perks to attract talent they may otherwise not afford. These days, many talented workers are not looking for more money. They are instead looking for better quality of life…that which you get through work life balance. So, even if you are not able to negotiate a higher salary, you can use work life balance as a leveraging tool to create the lifestyle that you desire.

I'm really looking forward to working with you to reach new heights of success and balance in your personal and professional life! Sonia Gallagher, JD Holistic Executive Life Coach PS. If you are ready to be challenged, to steer your life in a new direction, and to achieve the goals you desire, I invite you to request a Free Coaching Session and Experience Coaching and How It Can Benefit Your First-hand!

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Do you have real work life balance in your life? Are you tired of hearing this word and feeling it’s a very foreign concept?

Work life balance is created when you establish healthy boundaries between your work and your personal life. It refers to the boundaries that you establish between your profession or business and every other segment of your life. These life segments include your career or business, family, personal growth, spirituality, fitness and health, and community and friendships.

So tell me, do you wake up each day filled with energy and excited to face a new day? Do you feel you have enough time and physical energy to give to your career, your spouse, your children, your friends, and yourself?

If you are like most people, you are probably reading this article for one or more of the following reasons:

• You’ve come to a point where your job is taking over every other aspect of your life.

• Your emotional or physical health is suffering because of the amount of stress you are under.

• Your relationships with your children, spouse, and friends could stand to be better.

• You can’t remember when the last time was that you were able to spend time with your friends.

• You are having trouble leaving thoughts about work at the door.

• You have trouble getting to sleep and staying asleep through the night.

• You know that you are not living your life to the fullest and want to create change.

• You’ve lost the sense of fulfillment and personal satisfaction in your life and want it back.

I'm really looking forward to working with you to reach new heights of success and balance in your personal and professional life! Sonia Gallagher, JD Holistic Executive Life Coach PS. If you are ready to be challenged, to steer your life in a new direction, and to achieve the goals you desire, I invite you to request a Free Coaching Session and Experience Coaching and How It Can Benefit Your First-hand!

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Do you wake up in the morning ready to face the world and thankful for being given another day? Can you say that you are completely happy with everything that you do in this life and that you are living life to the fullest? If you can, then it’s right to say you’ve got work life balance and as a result have your whole life in balance.

However, not very many of us can actually say that.

Living a life of fulfillment is what all of us desire to do yet so few have been able to do. Why do you think this is? It certainly seems to be an easy enough thing to do right?

No, not at all.

For so many of us, living life in balance is the most difficult thing we can imagine doing. Because we see it as such a difficult thing to do, we instead choose to live mediocre, 9 to 5 lives that require us to function in a trance-like state. We wake up each morning just to do it all over again and deny ourselves of work life balance. A lot of us don’t even think that obtaining work life balance is a possible reality!

Where in the world is the fulfillment in that?

When you live your life in balance, things flow. You become more efficient at work and as a result more successful in your professional life. At the same time, you are much more relaxed because you are able to spend time on your family life, personal development, and each of the other aspects that make up your life.

When we invest in ourselves and decide that we want to live life at our optimal, we find that it is through work life balance that we achieve the most personal and professional success.

Top executives have known this for many decades as they have worked with life coaches themselves to achieve more in their career. Right now, many corporations contract life coaches to work with their employees and even reimburse their employees for seeing life coaches independently.

The truth of the matter is that these companies have seen the results that their employees working with a life coach has had on the company’s bottom line. No doubt employees who work with life coaches create more profit and productivity while at the same time having better health and peace of mind.

If you are a professional, executive or business owner looking to be challenged to take leaps in life both professional and personally, go ahead and contact us to request a free Success Reboot Coaching session today.

I'm really looking forward to working with you to reach new heights of success and balance in your personal and professional life! Sonia Gallagher, JD Holistic Executive Life Coach PS. If you are ready to be challenged, to steer your life in a new direction, and to achieve the goals you desire, I invite you to request a Free Coaching Session and Experience Coaching and How It Can Benefit Your First-hand!

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A life balance wheel has 8 sections. These 8 sections represent the 8 different areas in one’s life. As soon as one of these areas of one’s life is fuller than the others, the wheel is unbalanced. The wheel is a representation of your life. This means that if you are interested in having a holistic and fulfilling life, your ultimate goal is to have your life balance wheel completely balanced.

For example, people whose work section is at its ultimate usually tend to have less than perfect health, family, and personal growth sections. This is an example, but an incredibly common one. This is unfortunate and this is why there are life coaches. Life coaches help you to find fulfillment in your life by living at your optimal. Living in your optimal is having as much of a balance in your life balance wheel as possible. This is a progressive objective.

This means you should not be hard on yourself if you find that you score higher in some sections than in others. This is extremely common and is fixable. You just have to want to have balance in your life badly enough to go out and actually do things that will help you get there.

Working with a life coach for this is a perfect example of this. You also have to be willing to help yourself achieve these goals.

The 8 sections of a life balance wheel:

1. Work- Your profession; career.
2. Money- Income; investments, retirement funds, etc.
3. Living environment- Your material things, your residence, vehicle, office, etc.
4. Personal growth- Anything and everything that you do and learn to improve who you are as a person.
5. Health and recreation- Everything you do for self-care and relaxation.
6. Community- Your friends, social life, community/volunteer organizations and involvement, etc.
7. Family- Married/ single, dating relationship, children, extended family, siblings, etc.
8. God- Your spiritual life, religious life, worship.

Now that you know the 8 sections of the life balance wheel, go ahead and assess yourself. Rank your satisfaction with each of these sections of your life from 1 to 10. What stands out to you as you see these different rankings? Which areas are you most motivated to work on that would make you feel more complete, fulfilled, satisfied, happy?

I'm really looking forward to working with you to reach new heights of success and balance in your personal and professional life! Sonia Gallagher, JD Holistic Executive Life Coach PS. If you are ready to be challenged, to steer your life in a new direction, and to achieve the goals you desire, I invite you to request a Free Coaching Session and Experience Coaching and How It Can Benefit Your First-hand!

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A holistic life coach is sometimes referred to as a holistic healer. This type of life coach takes a holistic approach to the client by considering and taking every single section of your life into account when helping you to reach your goals. In essence, any life coach is a holistic life coach for the simple fact that each and every part of your life is connected.

The life balance wheel is one of the most powerful tools used by a holistic life coach (holistic healer). It shows you that there are 8 sections in one’s life.

The 8 sections of one’s life are:

1. Work,
2. Money,
3. Living environment,
4. Personal growth,
5. Health and recreation,
6. Community,
7. Family, and
8. God.

Going through the exercises of a life balance wheel, you can determine whether your life is in balance or not.

A holistic coach considers each and every one of the 8 different sections of your life when assisting you to reach your goals.

This usually means that when a client goes to a life coach seeking assistance in becoming more physically fit, they are actually not physically fit because factors in other sections in their life are affecting them. A common scenario is someone coming to a holistic life coach for coaching in relation to health and wellness and then finding out that the real lack and lack of balance existed in the family, living environment, or work sections of their life.

More often than not, you approach a holistic coach or holistic healer for a session in pursuit of a specific goal in mind only to find out that there were many other issues going on in the background. You end up becoming aware of these issues throughout your life coaching sessions and finding ways to conquer the obstacles you were not even aware existed in your life.

This is why a holistic life coach is such a powerful tool.

By constantly considering each and every aspect of your life throughout the life coaching sessions, holistic life coaches help you to find wholeness and balance. This in turn results in you becoming more productive, showing better performance at work, feeling more creativity and energy, achieving a higher self-esteem and self-realization, having more inner peace, and many other benefits.

In fact, if you feel up to the challenge and are ready to start living a fulfilled, balanced, and successful life, request a free 30 minute coaching session now! (This is a limited time offer and by invitation only so take advantage!)

If you are ready to create change and reach success through balance in your life, get a free copy of The Sure-Fire Formula for Achieving Work Life Balance.

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