Achieving life balance is in huge demand today especially among professional women, women entrepreneurs and stay at home moms.

Are you also a woman seeking true life balance? What have you tried to achieve it? Have you created a vision around what life balance might look like for you? What is YOUR definition of life balance?

As a mompreneur, coach, speaker, author, I too have been on this quest for life balance and have come to my personal and professional conclusion that one truly cannot achieve it all and achieve it all well. Which brings me to the question, “Are we setting ourselves up for failure by believing in true life balance?”

Tony Robbins states,” if  you link enough pain to any rule that doesn’t server you, replace it with a rule that does!”

I have personally had to change my set of rules for what achieving life balance means to me. The expectations I had to meet my own definition of life balance were unrealistic, unachievable and simply creating lots of negative energy and a huge sense of failure.

 I changed my rules! What about you? Do you need to change your rules for how to achieve life balance? Maybe you need to remove the term life balance from your vocabulary and rename it  ‘life management’ .

I personally believe in order to achieve extreme success, your focus need to be on that one goal. Everything else becomes put to the wayside. Sacrifices, compromises, understanding, and arrangements have to be made.

Let’s say you are a stay at home mom who wants to start her own profitable business. You also want to be an excellent mother, make perfectly balanced healthy meals and snacks, save money, have a clean house, look hot for her husband, stay funny and creative and plan really cool, creative playdates… doing it all yourself well and all on a budget!!

How could life balance be achieved in this situation? A LOT can be done to make most of this happen, but there will be some sort of price or sacrifice or compromise to be made. You might have to have pre-made meals delivered to your door, hire a sitter so you have scheduled work hours, hire a housecleaner, get regular massages in order to feel your best, hire an assistant to schedule things for your business, playdates, go shopping, drag your kids to the gym daycare which they don’t love in order for you to get a workout in…all of the above!!

In my opinion, in order to achieve the goals you want to achieve, job promotion, new business, supermom, etc. Something has to give, something will always have to be adjusted.

Simply knowing that has helped me and many of my clients come to terms with choosing what they are willing to compromise ( I like that word better than sacrifice) in order to achieve the BIG goals they have for themselves, their careers and their business.

Get resourceful and your personal definition of life balance will evolve!