Charlene knows about balance. She blogs about it at The Balance Beam — Life Balance Strategy, humor & Random Overshare.
A Life Spent Hanging From The Edge
I know nothing of balance, which means that for me, her blog possesses a mysterious, unfamiliar, and exotic draw. My life has been a long series of the extreme. I’ve been in the top 10% of income earners, and I’ve been homeless. I’ve lived in downtown San Diego and in Rural Missouri. Even my chosen professions are adventures in extremety; Soldier, Salesman and Writer.
I’ve killed two marriages by never being there. Both relationships failed because I have never known anything close to balance. But since leaving my last job because the imbalance in my life had finally caught up with me, the idea of introducing some sense of balance has been on my mind.
Enter Charlene
“Just like in business, we have to think about our life in terms of the strategic big picture. This is why I call it ‘Personal Strategic Management.’
“We have to prioritize and invest. We have to get past our own lazy objections. Especially when things aren’t easy.”
Charlene has this stuff down. She attends conferences on the subject. Not just as an attendee but she attends as an expert. And she shares her expertise on the blog.
The Slippery Slope, reminiscent to the sharpening the saw concept familiar to Ziglar readers, expands on the idea of planning time to refocus and re-energize. She offers some simple, practical action steps for avoiding the slippery slope of imbalance, that actually robs you of the productivity you are seeking to gain as you begin the slide.
There is a lot of personal exploration on the blog, including some Potty Talk, that being an example of here parenting discussions. She has some pictures of herself on the blog, and as is often the case, I don’t see what she apparently sees, since she sees someone who struggles with all three culprits that prevent weight loss at some point in her life. Could be I’m just not sensitive enough, but I don’t see the problem. Could just be scale too, since I’m 73″ and 310# as of Fridays visit to the VA.
The content on this blog is great. I really enjoyed the read, took away some advice I will apply to my life in my own pursuit of balance, and found my self exposed to ideas previously unconsidered.
There are a couple of things I mention with some reserve, given the quality of the message. I don’t care overmuch for the yellow post background. I’d love to see her change it to a title background and post outline, leaving the body of the post on a nice white screen.
I’d also like to see the BC widget on the blog so I could have seen who else has been reading her. But that’s just me. She does have the Google Friends widget, and if she made the decision that she could only have one, Google has a huge audience that is difficult to ignore.
In all the content and ideas far outwheigh my little niggling complaints and she earns five stars from me.
What do you think? Five stars from you too? Why or why not?