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If trying to maintain balance in your life makes you feel like a tightrope walker, you’re not alone. Most of us have so many demands on our time and energy, life can feel like a three-ring circus. Take this quiz to see how well you are meeting responsibilities, while also recognizing and fulfilling personal needs and wants.

Answer True OR False for the following statements.

1. The only way I can successfully manage my life is to take care of myself physically and emotionally.
2. Nurturing myself enlarges my capacity to help others.
3. I eat healthfully and exercise regularly.
4. I get check-ups, go to the dentist, and take preventative precautions.
5. I set aside personal, quiet time for myself, whether I’m meditating or simply letting my thoughts drift.
6. I experience the gifts of each season: ice skating, sledding, bundled-up beach walks; gardening, hiking, more time outside; camping, swimming, barbeques; harvesting the bounty, gathering wood, spending more time inside.
7. Creativity nurtures me, too. I do what I love, whether that’s cooking, drawing, painting, writing, dancing, singing or another creative pursuit.
8. Reaching out to others enriches my life. I spend quality time with family and friends.
9. Contributing to the world provides connection and purpose, so I give my time, energy and experience where it is most useful.
10. I notice and heed the emotional signals that tell me I’m out of balance: irritability, overwhelm, resentment.
11. If I feel that I’m catching a cold, I realize I may have stressed my immune system with overactivity, so I stop and take care of myself.
12. When I need or want to, I say no to requests for my time.
13. I listen to and honor the requests my body makes for such things as a nap, a walk, green vegetables, hot soup.
14. If I have something planned for myself, I don’t just toss that aside when someone makes a request of me.
15. I’m busy, but I find time to do the things I want to do.
16. I’m happy. I regularly experience well-being, contentment, even joy.

If you answered false more often than true, you may want to take a look at the statements to which you answered false and see if you can incorporate something of its message into your life. PSYCH-K (r) can support you in integrating these statements into your day-to-day practices. Please feel free to contact me if you’d like to explore these areas further.

Do you wake up during the middle of the night thinking about everything you have to do or what you what forgot to finish?

Do you feel anxious or fearful that you won’t get it all done? 

Are you trying to finish it all before someone finds out that you haven’t handled something yet?  

Do you have this sense of dread hanging over you because you are sure that there is something that you’ve forgotten to do? 

Are you exhausted just thinking about everything that needs to get done, so you don’t do anything!

If any of these scenarios sounds like you, you are not alone.  It’s common that I speak with people who are feeling overwhelmed.  Their jobs are more demanding than ever, their families seems to be getting busier and busier by the day, and not to mention, their extended families are wondering why they haven’t called!  Whew!  I feel their overwhelm just listening to it them describe it.  Fortunately, there is something that you can do to begin to turn this around. 

The first and most important thing that I advise my clients is to refuel themselves.  They cannot give unless they are fueled up themselves.  Even if it seems like they can’t fit another thing in, especially if it’s not already on the To-Do list, do it.  I urge them to carve out a space of time to spend with and for themselves; something that they love to do.  Not only will they enjoy doing something that they love, they often re-emerge with boundless energy and can handle and tackle everything on their To-Do List.

So remember, if you want to be able to give your all, give to yourself!   

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I hear people speak quite frequently about wanting to exercise but it is so far down on their priority list that it doesn’t seem to get done. When I ask about it, what gets revealed is that there is a level of guilt associated with “taking” time away from the family. There seems to be so many other items that are considered more important, that exercise takes a back seat. They want to dedicate any spare time to the family and life related tasks that pop up day-by-day.

Exercise however, doesn’t take away from doing the other items on the list, it actually helps them get done, in some cases, faster, easier, and more efficiently! It happens that way because exercise often brings extra energy and more vitality, making it possible to get more done every day! So by losing the guilt, taking care of yourself, you are able to not only do the other items on the to-do list, most people find that they’re able to do even more!

I work with people every day on creating work life balance and provide a foundation to have them catapult forward once they discover what’s getting in their way of creating it. For more information on how that’s possible, 

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I always hear, leave work at work.  I say….leave home at home.

How often are you answering emails or working on a project when thoughts of the dentist appointment you forgot to make or last night’s conversation pop into your head?  When thoughts of home take up space during the work day, it makes for a less productive day at work.  Then, when you go home, you may find yourself making phone calls, or answering emails that went undone during the day.  Next day at work is then on repeat. 

It’s a cycle that gets repeated over and over until we make a commitment to break it.  One way we can break it by leaving home at home.  In other words, no matter where you are, home, work, the soccer game, the dentist office, the grocery store….wherever it is, be completely present.  Be fully engaged at that moment and don’t carry previous moments with you.  Be complete with where you are, so that when you move to the next place, project, or person, you can be 100% with them and not where you just came from.

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A common concern I hear, especially among women, is about creating more work-life balance. It’s very important to them but they’re not sure how to go about creating it. When I ask them to describe how it looks now versus how they want it to look, what comes up time and time again, is ”my husband doesn’t help.”

The number one question I have is… Did you ask? Did you ask him for the help? Very often the answer to that question is NO for a variety of reasons. I hear things like…

• He’s so busy at his job and he’s very tired when he comes home.
• He works late.
• If I want it done right, I better do it myself.
• I asked him before and he didn’t do it.
• He should just know what needs to be done.

As we dig around, we often uncover that the underlying reason why they don’t ask is because they are afraid that their husband will say no. But isn’t your husband, in essence, saying no already when he walks past the dishwasher that needs to be emptied, the laundry basket on the floor next to the linen closet, the mail in the mailbox?

There is a lot of power in asking, asking for what you want. Does it guarantee that there will be a yes or that it will get done? No. But you’ll begin to create a habit of asking for what you want and you’ll begin to get more of what really matters to you.

Practice Tip: Start looking around and notice how many times you hold back and don’t ask for what you want. Visually, in your head, get very clear on what you do want, write it down, then start asking! See what happens. Repeat.

I work with people every day on this very subject, men and women, to uncover why they don’t ask and why they get turned down when they do make requests. I provide a foundation to have them catapult forward once they discover what’s underneath the fear of rejection. For more information on how that’s possible, sign up for our mailing list to see How To Eliminate Fears, Doubts, & Worries That May Be Sabotaging Your Success or Slowing Down Your Progress http://bit.ly/b7Ltat