Many of us no longer work within the four walls of an office or even partial walls that

form our cubicles. Your workplace may now be your dining room table, a corner of the

breakfast counter or a lap desk in your bedroom. Our workplace has expanded and, along

with it, the challenges we face as we try and crush it at work and at home to keep everything

balanced among our various roles be it employee or employer, partner, parent, sibling or

friend. Are you with me? That's one of the biggest challenges we face today. Creating

a structure and habits and tactics to help us feel like we're meeting our potential

in each of these roles. Yet, regardless of what it looks like sometimes on our social

media feeds, here's the truth. Most of us don't feel like we're crushing it. Most of us

feel like we're struggling or failing in at least one of our lives and often several.

Here's something that may surprise you. According to the economic times researchers from

the University of Georgia pulled data from more than 350 studies run over three decades

that included responses from more than a quarter of a million people around the world to

questions asking about how they're fairing with handling competing priorities. The scientists

found that overall, both men and women report the same level of difficulty balancing work

and life responsibilities. Today we're going to talk about three steps and one massive tool

that will help you create and maintain that healthy and productive balance more of the

time. Let's dive right in. I'm always talking about how the quality of our life depends

on how we experience life. It's about our perspective. Every day and every moment your

brain is processing information and labels it as good or bad. Even though we do most of

this automatically, we have a lot more control than we realize over how things get labeled.

We can change those labels. Imagine the following. When your life is disrupted by suddenly having

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