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How Do You Achieve Work-Life Balance?
I received an email from a friend earlier this week entitled "Personal Balance in Demanding Times" with the following question: "How can we balance our personal needs with the most pressing needs of our community and the larger world?" Her email continued with some deeper questions including: - How are you doing this balancing act? - Who do you know who seems to balance well and what do they know? - How does your life touch the life of the larger world and what would allow you to feed your personal life while making a difference "out there"? - How can you feel satisfied you've given enough to yourself, your family and your community? Some pretty deep stuff, right? All variations of questions I've asked myself over the years. Perhaps you have as well.
30 Days in the Life of a Balanced CPA after April 15th
Debbie Lessin, CPA, entrepreneur and self proclaimed Balance Lady chronicles the first thirty days of her life after April 15th, her big work deadine. A seasoned entrepreneur for 25 years, Debbie shares her life openly, honestly and with a sense of humor. Interwoven through out are tips on living a balanced life and just balance means, especially for Debbie. From friends and family to work and play, from mind and body to heart and soul, Debbie's adventures just might give you some insight into ways to add balance to your own life. Debbie lives a single urban city life in Chicago, IL. Just because her life might be different than yours in many ways doesn't mean that you won't be agree with some of her philosophies, empathize with her stories and relate them to your own life. Life is a Balancing Act and Debbie's 30 day journey proves it.

Life is a Balancing Act!
An introduction to the Life Balance Wheel, a tool for examining what is important to you in your life.
The Road to Balance
Finding balance in life requires the ability to make and accept change.
The Balance Lady is out of Balance
Written as a New Years' Promise to Myself on January 2, 2009, I chose not to share my quandry until now. The death of my father in 2008 put my life so out of balance in a way that I never anticipated. It's a natural phase of life, but one that often clearly took me by surprise. Re-reading my thoughts now (end of April 2009) and ready to share my joys of new found balance, I can smile, take a deep breathe and know that "this too did pass". Time is a healer and so is a committment to to continually making balance a regular part of your life. Even the "Balance Lady" can be out of extremely out of balance! But listenng to my own advice, taking it step by step, going back to the basics, I too found my way back to balance. And now, I want to share those personal thoughts as 2008 came to pass and 2009 became my year of hope and promise.

Lessins Lessons for Life Balance
10 points to remember about life balance.
The Life Balance Lessons of Mary Poppins
Look deep and you'll be able to find life balance lessons in many day to day events, books, movies and television shows. Debbie shares her review of Mary Poppins, the muscial from a life balance perspective. Seeing the movie as a 10 year old girl and now seeing the musical 45 years later Debbie examines Mary Poppins through eyes that have lived a life, a life obsessed about balance! Get ready to "go fly a kite" and look at this fun and timeless musical story in a new and different way.

Time for Self
In order to live a balanced life you have to remember to take time for yourself!
Tune Out, Turn It Off
If you find yourself constantly checking your emails and checking your voicemail even on vacation, you may be addicted to techology. And as a result, your life may be very out of balance. If balance is what you seek, learn some simple ideas about controlling your email addiction to give you more time to live the rest of your life. One size does not fit all. That's the case when it comes to technology in life as well. But tuning out and turing it off may not in fact be the end of the world. Your business may not suffer as a result of self-imposed limitations. Your life if fact may prosper. Less work. More play. You don't have to check email every minute of every day!
The Balancing Act of Pile Management
Piles, piles everywhere. We all have them. Things that require our attention but sometimes get lost in the shuffle. Debbie Lessin, "djthebalancelady" has been on a balance quest for over 15 years. Her "day" job as a CPA for individuals and small busineses might not lend itself to much balance. But she has crafted her own life in a way that even made the 2009 tax season the best one in 26 years. In 2008 she finally had a life during tax season, this time it was actually a balanced one! But now that tax season is over, Debbie has to face the "piles of her life", catch up and move on! Her approach and attitude make all the difference. After you read the article, you'll be thinking about all the pile of your life and how you can better balance them. Happy Pile Management!

The Entrepreneurial Mindset – Choosing to Live a Balanced Life
Being a sucessful entrepreneur requires a certain mindset. Everything in life and business is determined by choices. And entrepreneurs have more choices than most. Debbie Lessin, CPA/Author/Entreprenuer for over 26 years has made lots of choices, both good and bad. But the choice that she's the most proud of, that one that she's worked hardest at is choosing to live a balanced life, choosing to become Zen Debbie. A small entreprenuer, by choice, Debbie knows that life is a balancing act. She shares her self in a way to help her fellow entrepreneurs to follow their own path, become the kind of entrepreneur that they choose to be.

Post Vacation - Return to Reality (Work!)
Life is truely a balancing act when it comes to work and play! We work hard to play hard. And vacation is often the tangible reward for our hard work. Not everyone can leave work at work when on vacation. But Debbie Lessin, CPA and self proclaimed Balance Lady, can and does. Debbie shares her reentry into work mode upon return from her 10 day vacation. Her calm, positive attitude helped her seamlessly ease back into work with no stress, no negating what the vacation was all about. She shares her journey and reminds us all that we not only need to take time away from work to refresh mind, body and spirit but to do so by trying to truly leave work at work!

Self-Discipline: A Balancing Act
Self-discipline is a balancing act. We are a collection of values, motivations, intentions, fears, potential, abilities, quirks, strengths and stories we tell ourselves. How all of this translates into self-discipline depends upon how aligned we are with our goals and how we balance priorities day to day. The balance you strike is reflective of your personal style of self-regulation. Are you happy with the way you balance your life or do you tend to let things slide a long time before you notice things are out of whack? One thing I notice about people who are content with their ability to regulate themselves is that they are aware of their priorities, they are clear about them, they take responsibility for them, they take time to focus on them and they have a way of balancing competing demands on their time.
Attitude, Belief, and Confidence...the ABC's of Sales
I once believed that in sales, if I could just learn that one killer closing statement, that one closing technique that worked every time, all my troubles would be over. Unfortunately, that statement and that technique do not exist. Don’t get me wrong; there are proper techniques that are extremely helpful in the sales process. Proper sales skills cannot be discounted. However, the three areas that will outshine rusty or nonexistent skills are the ABC’s of sales; and the lesson I quickly learned was that there is a balancing act.

Does your system tells how much you should buy?
Retailing is a delicate balance between merchandise and cash. It’s a high stakes balancing act: commit money early to large quantities of merchandise, and possibly end up with too much; or, commit less up front, saving cash for later, and take the risk of not being able to get the goods when you need them.

Life a Balancing Act
Misti discusses how to obtain work life balance
Bah! Humbug! Here Come the Holidays!
The pressures of celebrating the 'perfect' holidays very often are the straws that break the back of many relationships. Especially at midlife, it's critically important to keep things in perspective.
Kids helping your business
Working or running your own business can be difficult while having to take care of children as well. It can be hard to separate time from work and your children, though sometimes you don't have to.
5 Things That New Entrepreneurs Must Do For Consistent Business Growth
As a proud small business owner, are you able to do the balancing act of working IN your business while working ON it? Small businesses usually start when people who are specialist in some field decide to start on their own. Slowly they get so involved in the day-to-day business operations that the business cannot survive without them. This article will help you rise above the non-core business activities and concentrate on what you do best.
Here is a Method For Managing Your Friends In The Workplace - Follow these 7 Simple Tips
Are you a new manager? Have you been promoted recently to management? Is some of your staff also your friends? Do you know how easy it is to loose all respect when you show favoritism? Here are 7 quick and simple tips to help you.
Better decisions -getting it right!
How is that as sophisticated and intelligent thinkers we can still manage to go through life making some poor decisions?

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How To Avoid 'Baby Talk' SEO Copywriting & Make The Sale
Optimizing your copy is a balancing act and you might be diving off the tightrope without a net. Find out the biggest mistake site owners make in SEO copywriting and a few ways to fix it now.
Can Multitasking Ruin Your Work Life Balance?
We have become so conditioned to multitasking that we have forgotten how to be 'fully present' and do just one thing at a time? Yet this is one of the keys to successfully balancing your work and family life.
Balancing Activities – Free or $20 or less
No time for balance? No money for balancing activities in your budget? Time and money - likely excuses for why things do not happen in our every day lives. And yet, it doesn't have to be that way. It is often the simple things in life that bring us the most joy and the most balance. And yet we tend to forget that when we are stressed and out of balance. Createyour own Balance Sheet of the things that will bring more balance to your life. Debbie Lessin will get you started by providing a short list of Balancing Activities that won't break the bank, things that you can do for free or less than $20! Debbie encourages you to think outside your box and remember that the only number on this balance sheet is #1 - YOU!
Writing for Vision AND Sales
Are you among the social enterprise writers? Here are five writing tips for business leaders/authors balancing people, planet, and profit.
Evaluate Your Personal Finances
James Dicks examines the importance of balancing your personal financial portfolio and investment opportuinities on a regular basis.
Developing Marketing Street Cred Part 8: The Right Tools for the Job
It is a delicate balancing act – trying to elicit insightful user testimonials without leading your customers. Fortunately, there are some strategies you can employ to help simplify the process, without compromising the validity of the feedback you receive.
Great Sales Tips and Sales Motivation How to Overcome a Selling Slump
Fretting and worrying will not help you when your sales are down. They will hold you back. You cannot excel at anything unless you keep yourself in the right frame of mind. This requires balancing your ability to be realistic and objective, controlling your emotions, and working harder.

What matters most for leader?
Remember: Performance in tough times and balancing state of mind is a quality of a leader.
Making Brilliant Entrepreneurial Choices without Getting Distracted
Balancing work and life. There comes a time in every entrepreneur's life when he has to weigh the balance between being flexible enough to take on new opportunities and steady enough to stick to his plan.

Self-Discipline: A Balancing Act
Self-discipline is a balancing act. We are a collection of values, motivations, intentions, fears, potential, abilities, quirks, strengths and stories we tell ourselves. How all of this translates into self-discipline depends upon how aligned we are with our goals and how we balance priorities day to day. The balance you strike is reflective of your personal style of self-regulation. Are you happy with the way you balance your life or do you tend to let things slide a long time before you notice things are out of whack? One thing I notice about people who are content with their ability to regulate themselves is that they are aware of their priorities, they are clear about them, they take responsibility for them, they take time to focus on them and they have a way of balancing competing demands on their time.
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