I hear how so many people are allowing ato hold them back from even believing they can lead a balanced life, let alone attempting to do so.
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I hear how so many people are allowing a
dangerous lie
to hold them back from even believing they can lead a balanced life, let alone attempting to do so. There are so many people who:
  • Have a knot in the pit of their stomach
  • Work to the wee hours of the morning or pull all-nighters
  • Feel burnt out
  • Struggle to be "present"
  • Don't take care of their bodies
  • Don't move forward on their goals
  • Struggle to maintain meaningful relationships

And yet fear admitting that they can't go on like this because they allow a little voice in their heads to control their every move.

The little voice repeats over and over:
"Maybe this is just the way it has to be when you're ... an entrepreneur or a young professional or a student or a...."

Can you relate?

This is a Dangerous Lie.

The truth is that it won't happen automatically (it takes a while to undo years worth of habits and decisions). But over time through the right decisions and strategies, you can live a life of focus, peace, and balance where the most important things are in your life.

To help you start breaking the power of this dangerous limiting belief, here are a few questions for you to answer--very honestly.

1. How am I using my time right now? How is my schedule affecting my emotional, mental, physical, relational, professional, and spiritual health?

2. If I could have exactly what I wanted, what would my schedule look like in three to six months? What kind of person would that make me?

Getting your true feelings and desires outside of your mind and heart is the first step to achieving them. You can write these answers in a journal or share them with a friend.

Life can be radically different!

About Real Life E®
Elizabeth Grace Saunders is the founder and CEO of Real Life E® a time coaching and training company that empowers individuals who feel guilty, overwhelmed and frustrated to feel peaceful, confident and accomplished. She is an expert on achieving more success with less stress. Real Life E® also increases employee productivity, satisfaction and work/life balance through training programs.

McGraw Hill published her first book The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: How to Achieve More Success with Less Stress. Harvard Business Review recently published her second book How to Invest Your Time Like Money. Elizabeth contributes to blogs like Lifehacker, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and the 99U blog on productivity for creative professionals and has appeared on CBS, ABC, NBC, and Fox.

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