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Obstacles to achieving personal life balance!

Obstacles to achieving personal life balance!

What’s keeping you from achieving work-life balance? There are many things if you are like me.

I just listened to a great OnPurpose Leader webinar where Kevin McCarthy shared his insights from a survey that asked 550 small business owners what their biggest obstacles to success were. Did you come up with this list by percentage?

  1. 33% say Time Management
  2. 28% say ME
  3. 22% say Fear
  4. 8% say business problems
  5. 6% say Money
  6. 4% say Other

What would you say? What are those obstacles that hinder your ability to achieve success?

And frankly, this has a lot to do with how you define success, doesn’t it? Because at the end of the day we all move towards our definition of success. So what stops you from success depends on what success means to YOU.

I have concluded that many in the culture and the media define success as power, prosperity, position, prestige and/or pleasure. And you?

I have interviewed hundreds of leaders from around the world about success and how they would define it at the end of their lives. None of them referred to the 5 Ps mentioned above. They all said what you would probably say: how my children turned out, what kind of relationship I had with my spouse, friends, colleagues, I made a difference and maximized my life, I was successful in ALL areas of life. faith, fitness, family, friends, finances, enterprise (business), fun (entertainment and recreation), and favor (giving back).

The bottom line is are you living a life of contribution and positive impact and are you living a complete, integrated and balanced life? Are you achieving balance in your life?

Start with a personal assessment like the one mentioned above. And what about you? Perhaps you have other areas that are holding you back. What are they? Try to make a list and let me know your views.

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