Having It All... and Making It Work: Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First

Chapter 6. Review Your Balance to Retain or Regain It: Balance Is a Destination

You may be down or out of balance, but you can learn to recover nicely, especially when you know what knocks you off balance or causes you to slip slowly out of balance. Assess your situation periodically and strive for flexibility. In doing so, you can actually be in balance most of the time.

Some aspects of our lives are always journeys—building and maintaining relationships, deepening love, building our character, enhancing our careers.

Balance, too, at least for different periods in our lives, is a journey. But to say that it is always a journey suggests that we never get there—that we never truly achieve balance. Not true.

This Journey Leads to a Destination

Balance ...