8. Struggling to find balance in your personal and professional life? Here is one thing that will help…

The ONE Thing

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Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Can your personal relationships be improved? Do you find it difficult to switch from work mode to home mode? When you are hyper focused on work, your life can fall off balance. That’s why we brought Alison onto the show to help you clarify your direction and focus your vision. In this episode you will learn... [4:00] It’s possible to appreciate your personal life and still not find every activity stimulating. [6:30] Why physical activity can help shift your focus away from work. [8:45] How you can develop creative solutions to make your home experience more engaging for everyone. [10:30] Why more accountability in your personal life can be a powerful motivator. [11:40] How time blocking can be implemented in your personal life [15:30] How you can make a little tweak to your personal routine to make it better for you and the people in your life. [17:30] The importance of showing up in an effective manner, even when you’re tired. [19:00] How just a few minutes of Family Yoga can help center a whole family. [22:50] The critical role that reliability plays in your personal life. [26:00] The biggest challenge in establishing a healthy work-life balance. [28:00] One 2-minute exercise you can do now to center yourself and shift your perspective. The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode: A short exercise to help find balance in your personal and professional life: Close your eyes for a moment. Take one or two deep breaths to center your body. Imagine that you are a fly on the wall in your home and you can see your family or friends. Look from the perspective of a fly on the wall and write down what you see, in terms of what is beautiful about them. What’s amazing about these people who are in your life? Links & Tools From This Episode The ONE Thing: Website Book Alison’s Website – Alison Cardy specializes in helping men and women around the world with career changes AWESOME FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU! Form your first power habit with your 66 Day Challenge Calendar Check out our awesome blog! [FREE Training] How to Start Time Blocking TODAY! Mentioned in this episode: Factor 75 Head to FactorMeals.com/one50 and use code one50 to get 50% off. That’s code one50 at FactorMeals.com/one50 to get 50% off! Factor 75

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0:00.0	This is the One Thing podcast where we teach you the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results.
0:09.0	My name is Jeff Woods. I'm the Vice President here at the one thing team. Today will be an interesting
0:14.9	episode because I'm putting myself in our vulnerable position. We focus a lot
0:21.2	on growing our businesses. We focus a lot on growing our businesses.
0:23.4	We focus a lot on scale and living these big abundant lives.
0:27.9	Part of it though that we often don't talk about is what it means to thrive personally as well.
0:34.0	Over the last few years,
0:36.7	striking that counterbalance between
0:39.6	thriving in business and thriving personally has been a struggle.
0:44.3	For any of you out there in the audience who have started a business, you know the stress
0:49.1	that that can bring to your family.
0:52.6	You know what it means to burn the midnight oil, to work the long hours, to have stressful
0:57.5	things happen throughout the day that you then bring into the household and you unintentionally allow it to affect the relationships with the people who matter most to you.
1:08.3	Back when I was in medical device sales and I was starting the mentee podcast and scaling that into a business.
1:14.4	I sat down with Amy my wife before this all happened and said, hey, we're going to need to
1:18.8	double down here and I'm going to have to focus on building this business,
1:21.6	which means that it's going to be less time with the family.
1:25.2	She was on board for that, but of course going through the actions of that is very different.
1:31.4	It's one thing to look forward and understand that you're going to have
1:34.9	less time together. It's another thing that when the time gets tough to still support
1:41.1	one another, but we did so and it was through the help of some really
1:44.8	great mentorship and then when I move here to Austin I've got probably some of the
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