Purposeful Growth

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.

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.

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.

What is the Balanced Life E-course?

After writing several articles about life balance, including a free self-assessment tool which is very popular, I developed a prototype self study course to help people get their lives back in balance. More than a dozen people from all walks of life joined in as volunteer testers as we went through an intensive beta test of the course.

Feedback on the course from the test group was excellent and their helpful, insightful comments, questions, and suggestions have been incorporated in the final product.

The Balanced Life E-course is a ten week, self study course delivered weekly by email. Recognizing that fundamental problems must be solved with fundamentals, the course helps you first understand the basic structure for a balanced life, then teaches you how to integrate strong fundamentals and five important life skills into your own life.

Filled with exercises, examples, and even home-work assignments, The Life Balance E-course can help you find the fulfilling life you seek.

The target price for the course is $49, but I’ve reduced that by 50% to $25 during this brief introductory phase. As a gift to readers of Purposeful Growth, I’m offering the exact same course to you with a further 20% discount. For now, during this introductory phase, The Balanced Life E-course is just $20 when you sign up through this special promotional web page. If you can’t see or click on the link, or prefer not to click through on embedded links, copy and paste this link into your browser: http://www.balanced-life.biz/Referral.htm.

Remember, to get The Balanced Life E-course for $20 you must register through this special page.

As someone focused on purposeful personal growth, I know life balance is important to you. No one enjoys being overwhelmed, over-worked, and under-appreciated. You can take back control of your life and enjoy life’s wonders and satisfactions with The Life Balance E-course.

Positive affirmations are important to a positive attitude and achieving goals. Learn the importance of correct format for powerful affirmations.

Positive attitude and positive thinking are linked to greater health, increased happiness, and longevity. Properly constructed and appropriate positive affirmations are an important ingredient for a positive attitude, as well as other life goals. The equation can be expressed as:

positive thinking + positive affirmation = positive attitude.

Positive Affirmations and Goals:

An affirmation is a statement of declaration, a reinforcement or affirming of a strong belief. Regular use of positive

affirmations helps us reach goals and continue thinking positively. Affirming a goal regularly keeps it front and center in our thinking. We tend to accomplish what we think about, especially when we think about it properly.

Structure of a Good Affirmation:

The structure of an affirmation is vitally important. Word it wrong–as many people do–and it can work against you. The first and most important thing to know about an effective affirmation is that it must be in first person format. Begin your affirmation with I.

The next important structural requirement is often where people have the most trouble. Format your affirmation in the present tense. Many people resist this and in doing so they diminish the power an affirmation.

With few exceptions, the first two words of an affirmation should be I am. Notice these first two words incorporate first person present tense. Follow these two words with the end result you seek. If, for example, your goal is to have a positive attitude, you could finish your sentence like this:

I am a positive person.

Here’s where many people go astray. Because they’re not yet a positive person, or not very often positive, they resist using present tense, instead preferring to state a much weaker declaration like this:

I will try to be a more positive person.

Read those two examples out loud and you’ll feel the difference in energy and power. Declaring something about the future sets an intention, but lacks an important ingredient of positive attitude and goal attainment. We’ll take care of that next.

Emotion and Affirmations:

Passionate people achieve. Passion for a goal brings a near inexhaustible source of energy and resilience to attaining that goal. The I am statement is firm and passionate. The I will try statement is hopeful and dream-like. Which conveys more passion?

We can bring even more emotion to our example affirmation like this:

I am proud and happy now that I am a positive person.

There’s More:

There’s more to know about using affirmations, such as the importance of visualizing, how habits of thinking can counteract a good positive affirmation, being aware of accidental affirmations. These are covered in this article.

This article first appeared in the Personal Development Topic at Suite101.com.