the mysteriously elusive work-life
balance think about it who here do you
know has actually achieved work-life
balance anybody and oh by the way
retirement does not count
okay retirement does not count
unfortunately work-life balance has
gotten a bad name and the reason it’s
gotten a bad name is because it is a bit
we truly cannot achieve it so my goal
today is to break apart the words
work-life and balance and introduce to
you a new paradigm to assist you in
moving forward to attract more of what
you want in your life and less of what
you don’t want does that work yep okay
so work and life what’s missing in this
picture what’s missing there’s a balance
there’s no movement there’s no flow no
movement in no flow and this is what
we’re working towards and work-life
balance to be stuck I don’t know about
you that’s not what I want and I doubt
that that’s what you want also so take a
good look at this at this slide lacks
flow lacks movement and look at all the
components of our lives this person in
the middle is in balance and there is no
interaction with any part of our lives
so you wonder why we can’t achieve
work-life balance because it’s
impossible when we’re in a state of
stasis to get there it just doesn’t work
but I will be coming back to the slide I
will not leave you hanging
work David White a well-known poet wrote
in crossing the
unknown see that it is an opportunity
for discovering and shaping the place
where self meets the world let’s take a
good look at this it’s an opportunity
for discovering and shaping okay shaping
we’re going to be getting into this
moving movement just a little bit the
place where the self meets the world
very important because look at this
slide renewed work is a part of
everything that we do in the old
paradigm works out here everything is
work work work work work over here it’s
the rest of our life right so work work
work we’re here the rest of our life
over here it doesn’t work that way it’s
not interacting it’s not
interconnectivity now if you take on the
paradigm that work equals effort let’s
look at recreation does it take effort
and work to create a beautiful garden of
course it does does it take effort and
work to communicate with family friends
co-workers colleagues absolutely does it
take work in effort to maintain our
health coming here there were so many
runners coming going up the hills
because they were part do it was hey and
I’m thinking god that is a lot of work
running up those health education and
I’m sure all of you who are Saliva’s
student to know to get a great education
and to do well in the classroom takes
work doesn’t not career and finances the
work of learning how to interview the
work of getting a great job the work of
doing the job well and what we can do
with that job in order to elevate
ourselves to be able to attract more and
more from a financial
perspective and then lastly spirituality
when we are searching for our spiritual
life it’s about attracting to ourselves
what works and what doesn’t work that
takes effort and work does it not so
being that work equals effort there’s
flow here there’s movement here
integration and connectivity flow
movement integration connectivity it’s a
dance think about it it’s a dance and as
you look at this slide this is an amoeba
an amoeba moves everything is contained
in the amoeba and it moves as it needs
to and this paradigm gives you the
opportunity to be able to sit in any one
of those chairs and be fully present in
the moment and be focused on what is
happening in front of you and this new
paradigm is called life harmony so am I
asking you to throw balance out
absolutely not
balance is necessary because the
connection between the brain and the
head and the brain and the heart
disconnects when there’s chaos in our
world so in life harmony this chaos come
in absolutely it does because let’s take
for example a leader is interacting with
a co-worker or a colleague and they
bring in news that you don’t want to
hear and you either need jerk with the
question or you do what I’m going to
teach you to step into balance and use
this state to guide you and help you
move forward so all of you have a
handout that you were given when you
walked in I’d like for you to pull that
handout out and follow along with me
step number one to quick shift into work
life harmony to step out of chaos and
into common ease is to shift and take
notice of the area that is in the center
of your body use your hand as an air
pump and put it on your chest if you
choose to
and the second is to breathe breathe
into your hand and out of your hand into
your hand and out of your hand and
breathe deeply and thirdly is to step
into a state of focus where you are
thinking of something that makes you
feel absolutely delicious personally I
think about the time I jumped out of a
perfectly good airplane for my sixtieth
birthday and it was magnificent and I
felt absolutely unstoppable so that’s
the place that I go to and lastly it’s
relaxed and relaxed as long as you need
to and this technique you can take it to
a ten minute segment or you can make it
segments and the more you practice this
and practice and practice and practice
you get to a place when where that
person walks in with the bad news you
can shift into this heart center
immediately and get into insight because
you are tapping into your wise inner
guidance system you are bringing your
intuition in at this moment you are in
the place of silence where you can
really hear the messages that need to
come through to take you and guide you
where you are in life harmony so why is
all others so important to me for me not
to me for me it’s important for me
because I’ve been teaching work/life
balance since 2001 and the reason I
teach it is because yours truly burned
out multiple times and what I realized
is that something had to shift and
change and I wasn’t finding it I
couldn’t figure out what it was and I
asked for guidance I asked for help and
everything that I needed landed in my
lap and what I will share with you is
the most powerful tool in my arsenal of
helping leaders step back from the brink
of burnout and help them become
unstoppable intuitive leaders is this
tool right in front of you so my call to
action for you is to quick shift into
balance throughout the day recalibrate
access your intuition and your wise
inner guidance system to achieve harmony
let
go of the old work-life balance paradigm
and step into this new paradigm of life
harmony and use balance to get you into
that place for those moments that chaos
that take you out of center to your
success
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