What is the balanced woman anyway? The term. ” The Balanced Woman” is a buzz phrase all of a sudden but there is not much out there that really tells what it is and how to achieve it.? Yet, so many of us are seeking it. Let’s look first at what it is not. It is not being Super-Woman, it is not being all things to all people, it is not the super-charged, super-focused executive or mom. But why not? For years we were told we could have it all. I guess years of trying it going full-bore have shown us that it is really not all that easy or successful. We have to do it some other way.
I think we are learning thanks to baby Boomer women who have pioneered the way. Many of them took on the Super-Woman or hard charging executive role. Many succeeded in becoming very successful but very few learned to truly balance their lives. A Gen Y trait that makes businesses crazy but that works toward balance is demanding a reasonable work day. Many of these young women don’t even aspire to what top executive jobs have to offer. They are more interested in a balanced life.
Where is the middle though, what can you do to have the work life you want and also have a non-work life? It can be done. It takes a lot of compromise and a sure knowledge of yourself, your values and your beliefs. You have to know what you stand for and then you have to go after it even though you run into obstacles along the way. Be very clear on where you are?willing to compromise. Set meaningful boundaries and maintain them. Be flexible. Sometimes things will work your way and sometimes you will have to be creative in getting what you want. Sometimes you will have to suck it up and move on.
Here are a few other things I know for sure about women to have achieved balance in their lives:
They engage relentlessly in self-awareness activities.
They use what they know about themselves to leverage the best aspects of life.
They take time to engage in extreme self-care. They are good to themselves because they know it gives them more energy and capacity to care for others.
They recognize that balance is an ongoing process and work on it daily.
They have their values, beliefs and actions aligned and know what they are going after.
They choose to be upbeat and they live in a state of gratitude.
The know that life is a choice and that makes all the difference.
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Further Reading
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The movie tells the true-life story of a man who masters Muay Thai in order to realize his dream of becoming a woman. Flag of Hong Kong (1959-1997)
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His dreams had repeatedly featured a diffuse chaos of vague beings milling.. his shamanic dream of becoming a woman and his initiatiory midlife crisis
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Power of a Man The: Using Your Influence as a Man of Character . New on Becoming the Woman of His Dreams: Seven Qualities Every Man Longs For
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Capture His Heart and Capture Her Heart are excellent tools to help spouses run. Becoming the Woman of His Dreams: Seven Qualities Every Man Longs for
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The book starts with his childhood where we read about his love for soccer.. meeting and marrying the woman of his dreams becoming a father
http://www.scottsigler.com/node/1585
4 Jul 2008. Essentially it’s a British love story about a man trying to win back the woman of his dreams but it has more than enough fart jokes to
Submitted Questions
Is Obama destroying the USA because his mother was a drifter and his father was a bigamist
A person’s perceptions are shaped by the experiences of his childhood. Normally a person’s childhood environment becomes the model for what the person considers the ideal way of life and he seeks to recreate that environment for himself as an adult.
As a leader is President Obama seeking to recreate his childhood environment for all of us as well as for himself
In his book “Dreams of My Father” Obama idolizes his bigamist father who made his 18 year old white mother pregnant just weeks after her 18th birthday in her first semester of college. The president’s father had a pregnant wife and children back home in Kenya when he married the president’s mother.
As a child the president went with his vagabond mother as she roamed the world. She divorced her husband when he left for Harvard and took up with another white woman who he would later marry and divorce. The president’s mother went on food stamps then she took little Barry with her to a third world nation (Indonesia) to marry her second husband there. But by the time little Barry was 10 his mother left her second husband and they went to live with her parents in Hawaii. The president stayed with them in Hawaii for the rest of his childhood while his mother continued her wandering ways eventually earning a PhD for her life’s work studying the culture of a third world nation.
The president spent his entire life being raised by his white mother and his white grandparents and yet he rejected their culture and instead idolized the Kenyan man who made an 18 year old girl pregnant and then abandoned her just like he abandoned his first wife and children.
Is President Obama capable of being a good leader of the USA if he believes this is the way of life he wishes on all of us
agreed apeman but isn’t being an elitist idealogue just the product of having a drifter for a mother and an absentee bigamist for a father
I think his childhood sheds some light on why he wants to steal from those who worked hard to earn a good Living and give it for free to those who did not.
Random Thought of the Day
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