"You can't move people to action unless you first move them with emotion. The heart comes before the head." John Maxwell
The roles you play at home and work must be in harmony... not requiring you to play different roles. Although there are distinct competencies attached to each role, it is to your advantage to create a powerful personal synergy among all your roles.
Creating a more holistic paradigm of integration with your work and home life will help you from thinking you are running between very different life segments. When you reach this new dynamic equilibrium, where all the parts of your life work synergistically in a highly interrelated whole, life balance happens. This synergy saves you incredible problem-solving time and energy.
Our overbooked lives and strong immunity to change try to keep us from relearning deeply in- grained habits. To make our intention a reality takes personal determination, practice, repetition and the support of others. Today, 64% of people in the U.S. say there is not enough time in the day to get things done. A poor night's sleep and tight work deadlines adversely affect our performance. We turn on the TV to pass the time rather then moving forward with focused action to accomplish our good intentions.
Putting it into Practice
Pay attention to your intentions. Every year, we gain clearer understanding that without positive change, decline is inevitable. The challenge is to recognize that what we are now tolerating can be reinvented by payi ng attention to our intentions.
From where you are to where you want to be. Self-directed learning helps you to discover an ideal vision of yourself, to feel motivated in developing the abilities necessary to get you where you want to be. That is, you see the person you want to be---living with the capability necessary to create and sustain the new you. This becomes the source of the energy required to work at the difficult and often frustrating process of change.
It's tough to do it alone. Find the support to help you get to where you want to be. Others help us see things we are missing, affirm whatever progress we have made, test our perceptions and let us know how we are doing. They provide the context for our practice of the new rituals. Although the model is called self-directed learning, without others' involvement lasting change can't occur.
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