@ Tom – It’s funny, I had never heard of work/life balance until I joined a company where I had to work 70+ hours per week to keep my head above water. They were obsessive about it, probably because nobody had any! It’s easy to talk the talk and say “Look how wonderful we are, we’re promoting work/life balance”

Gotta love those aha client moments. Great coaching!

@ Jennifer – The reward system is cool and often overlooked by a lot of people, me included. Let us know how you get on. One thing I would say about it is, be creative. There’s a 1,001 ways we can reward ourselves and too many people got for the obvious like money, clothes etc. There’s lots of other stuff out there too.

That was an interesting thought about the WLB that I never thought of before. It is so crucial to find something we enjoy – that will help us have that proper balance. If we’re doing something we hate then everything – all aspects of our lives – will suffer. It only makes sense.

Number one tip truly is the most important, but alas it seems to be the most difficult for some reason. It’s much easier to sit around and complain and do nothing about our misery, but oh the rewards when we make the right choices – and the most important one being our attitude!

I really like the reward system you mentioned. I might just have to try that.

Thanks for the insight.

@ Dr KC – Thanks for the comment and I agree 100% with everything you have to say.

Thank you for sharing the choices that we all have and the steps to making work (or perhaps something else in life that we don’t love) tolerable. Number one is of course the most important, but since it’s not all that easy to do…you do give us 2-7!

A wonderful article. Thank you!

Great practical advice. I love the rewards system. I use it all the time for my kids and finds it works well on me too! It also increases my productivity knowing I have that prize dangling just ahead waiting for me to grab it!

Attitude of course is everything — Wayne Dyer’s quote was one I repeated every day in my healing process “When you change the way you look at thing the things you look at change”. Indeed they do!

Thanks for the great post and Tim thanks for introducing Mike to me — I will definitely check out his site.

Gratefully,
Jenny

@ Ali – Yeh, I never really think about the pace thing that much, but when I do it makes perfect sense. Also the stepping up part it so true too. The more we do it the more it becomes part of our comfort zone and the more we can stretch that CZ further.

@ Vered – That is something I don’t ever think I’ve thought about before, but on reflection it does makes perfect sense, especially for all us visual types ;-)

@ Evelyn – One of the first things that I ask people that tell me they hate their job is “Do you want to change your job, or would you rather change your attitude and learn how to like your job” Often the answer is to do both.

@ Evan – Who cares as long as happiness follows? The only reason we want the money is because we think it will make us happy. There are many ways to be wealthy and money is only one of them.

@ Alastair – Thanks a lot. I must admit I haven’t seen him live and only have recordings, but there’s enough in there to know I’d like to. Hopefully one day he’ll make it to Florida. Thanks for the feedback.