Work/Life Balance

I offer convenient, telephone-based coaching for successful people who want to create an ideal balance between their work lives and personal lives.  Typical client goals include:

- Disengaging from a highly demanding career
- Allocating more time to family/spouse
- Allocating more time to a side business/part-time venture
- Making decisions around child-care to accomodate work
- Negotiating household responsibilities
- Determining how to better align work with values
- Putting a plan in place to "opt out" of the workforce
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When you're off-course in your life, you know it instantly.  Knowing how to get your life headed in a new direction, a better direction, the right direction is tough. Even more difficult is cutting through what you think you want for your life, to arrive at what you really want . 

Clients have come to me insisting that they work way too much, and they want me to help them find a way to work less so they can have more free time.  And, through the course of our sessions, we discover that the client feels happiest when he's being recognized for his hard work and long hours.  And, we further discover that the client's idea of happiness is feeling really productive and efficient at work.  With this information we then agree that the client equates the approval of others with his happiness and we set about either changing that for the client or validating it.  

Many times client's come forward with goals that really won't get them what they want.  I work with clients to understand their goals, validate that their goals will/won't get them what they ultimately want, and set about developing an action plan to get them from A to B. 

I started working part-time when I was 13, and secured an internship at General Motors when I was 16. From that point on, I worked hard and long and started "ladder climbing".

Throughout the "dot-com" era I went from one global, high tech consulting firm to the next.  I'd learn as much as I could, get bored, and move on to something new.

In my 20s, work-life balance meant trying to condition myself to sleep as little as possible so that I could work as much as possible.  My friends were my co-workers, my self-worth was dependent on rewards and recognition at work.

In my 30s, work-life balance meant learning as much as possible at work, and finding work that was interesting enough for me to justify spending 10-12 hours at it each day. 

In my 40s, work-life balance means become as efficient and productive as possible so that I can get 12 hours of work done in an 8 hour day and have time for "my life".  By the way, my life no longer consists solely of my work.