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RECIPES FOR LIFE
A
monthly column for women of purpose & passion by Irene Segal,
Certified Coach & President, Just Coach It
Volume 1,
February 2004:
RUNNING
ON EMPTY - WHY WORK LIFE BALANCE ELUDES SO MANY SUCCESSFUL WOMEN
Most
successful people, live very busy lives.
Successful women, however, not only lead busy lives but
most have multiple roles and hats to juggle while trying to
balance personal, family and career responsibilities.
Although women enjoy and thrive on wearing our many hats,
achieving work-life balance and true personal satisfaction remains
a more daunting task now than ever before.
Remember
that our “woman power”, our innate ability to connect, to
care, to share and to accomplish, has helped to create the current
paradigm shift to a more collaborative and cooperative business
model. While women are a positive economic and social force to be
reckoned with, too many of us are challenged by a lingering
malaise, a yearning for personal satisfaction and emotional
connection that somehow eludes us.
We finish our work days tired and drained of the
creativity, the energy the passion to address what WE truly want
and need. We push
forward and onward on automatic pilot, neglecting an inner voice
that desperately longs to be heard.
In sharing, in caring, in doing, we somehow focus so much,
so strongly on achievement and responsibility for others that we
lose sight our personal responsibility to live a productive and a
HAPPY life. Long term
satisfaction, fulfillment and happiness cannot be accomplished
without work-life balance.
How
can we attain work-life balance? How can we start to listen to our
inner voice? It all
starts by getting naked, getting truthful, about what we want and
need. I encourage you
to get naked now, to be one with the universe and with yourself.
To listen to what you truly want and need. Reflect upon the
reality that the greatest investment we can make is in ourselves,
in our energy, in our creativity in our passion to nurture our
soul and to develop our true purpose.
Life purpose is more than the job we do and the roles we
fulfill, live purpose speaks to what we can give, share,
communicate and be for ourselves and others.
Life purpose starts with taking a pause, reflecting on our
own personal truth.
I
encourage you to complete the exercise on the next page, and
to send me your comments. Next
month’s column will reflect how we move to balance our life
wheels and to proactively get naked, get clear with our truth, our
desire to create a personal recipe for life that is infused with
love, joy and satisfaction.
My warmest
wishes for a fabulous, insightful February of personal and
professional abundance and satisfaction. Yours
in service, Irene, WWW.JUSTCOACHIT.COM
© 2004 Irene Segal
THE
BUSINESS OF MY LIFE ©
2004 Just Coach It
THE
MOST IMPORTANT BUSINESS I OWN
We all try
to be efficient, effective to manage time. What
we choose to focus on in our personal or professional/business
life will continue to grow, while time diminishes.
How we deal with time has more to do with focus,
satisfaction and achieving the results we want than trying to
manage a dwindling resource. We cannot manage time, but we can
manage how we choose to spend it.
Attaining success means more than a bank balance, more than
acquisition of assets. Attaining
success means creating, leading the life you want.
It means being in charge of the business of your life.
Take
a look at the “wheel of life” below.
Do not try to balance it, do not do anything other than
color in where you are in each area of your life.
Assume that the
center of the circle is low satisfaction, and the outer edge of
the circle is high satisfaction.
Take a crayon, a felt pen, a pencil and color in each area
of your life. After
you have finished your wheel, take a look at whether it is road
ready, or out of balance. Reflect upon what you need to do to put
“the business of your life” in shape.
 Irene
Segal, Certified Coach, Consultant, Writer & Speaker
Website: Just
Coach It
Irene Segal works with value driven
individuals, businesses and organizations who dare to
dream loudly. Her
focus as a coach, consultant and speaker is to work with
issues of change, business growth, leadership and
self-empowerment.
Irene’s personal and professional
journey have taken her from post university dreams of
being an academic to running and multi million dollar
steel business, mentoring entrepreneurs, and consulting. She
is certified by Coach Training Alliance, who described her
as one of the stars in their certification program.
A dedicated Mom and passionate
advocate for children and youth Irene sits on her
children's school council and is a mentor for Youth in
Motion. In
her spare time Irene delights in the great company of her
children, studies Kabbalah, reads 2-5 books a week and
writes magazine articles.
She and her children also enjoy music, art, nature
and comedy and have recently embarked on a fitness
program. In 2004 Irene will begin work on a new book,
Women of Victory and Valour.
Whether Irene is facilitating
workshops, delivering a keynote address, writing
magazine articles, or working with clients she takes her
audience on a ride of joy, discovery, and
possibility. Her enthusiasm, integrity and passion
make her a riveting speaker who works dynamically with her
audience and her clients on a profound level.
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