Find Your Balance Point: Clarify Your Priorities, Simplify Your Life, and Achieve More
By Brian Tracy and Christina Stein
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Because we all have too much to do, it feels like our lives are out of balance. But Brian Tracy and Christina Stein argue that imbalance results not so much from doing too much but from doing too much of the wrong things. They provide a process that enables you to sort out what is most important to you from among the many activities you could focus on. When you can efficiently identify and accomplish what really matters to you, you've found your balance point.
Editor's Note
Do what you love…
The author of “Eat That Frog!” is back with advice on cutting out all the activities that don’t really matter so that you have more energy for the ones you love. Stop feeling overwhelmed and get your life back in order.
Brian Tracy
BRIAN TRACY is the Chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a company specializing in the training and development of individuals and organizations. One of the top business speakers and authorities in the world today, he has consulted for more than 1,000 companies and addressed more than 5,000,000 people in 5,000 talks and seminars throughout the United States and more than 60 countries worldwide. He has written 55 books and produced more than 500 audio and video learning programs on management, motivation, and personal success.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Awesome ! This book teaches where we are in our life and what should we do to balance our day to day life
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My life was spiraling out of balance and I needed to make some changes or my health was going to be affected. Over the last year, I have reexamined my priorities and started making some changes in how I spend my time. I was overcommitted and doing too much for others which meant my family got my leftovers rather than the best of me. Even though my life isn't perfectly balanced, it is certainly better than it was a year ago. This book has given me even more insight and tips in maintaining that delicate balance between my home life and professional life.Brian Tracy is a well-known author and motivational speaker. Business experts often hire Tracy or use his books and recordings to motivate their employees and help them with their personal and professional development. His most popular book, often referred by top managers, is KISS THAT FROG! and talks about tackling the biggest project or task on your list first.In FIND YOUR BALANCE POINT, Tracy has teamed up with therapist Christina Stein, who also happens to be his daughter. In my opinion, this collaboration with Stein helps him reach out to a female audience. Stein focuses on the work-life balance than many of us struggle to perfect and empowers us to make the best choices for ourselves and our family.Throughout the book, there are many opportunities to complete exercises to reflect on your priorities and values. By focusing on your list of values, a theme will appear that your job, the people in your life, and your priorities will reflect. Having the right people in your circle will result in increased happiness. When your job is reflected in your values and priorities, your emotional and spiritual needs will be met as well. You may find that it isn't that you are doing too many things, but instead you are doing the "wrong" things.By teaching ways to manage tasks through the action exercises at the end of each chapter, readers can have a real plan in place. Tracy's book is the ideal manual for reaching a goal, achieving balance, finding a new job, finishing a project, or whatever unmet task you've been wanting to tackle. Its short chapters and laid out plan-of-attack will help readers "eat" whatever frog is looming in their life. You may find yourself on a new career path or realize what truly brings you joy.
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Find Your Balance Point - Brian Tracy
FIND YOUR BALANCE POINT
ALSO BY CHRISTINA STEIN AND BRIAN TRACY
Kiss That Frog!
OTHER BOOKS BY BRIAN TRACY
Eat That Frog!
Maximum Achievement
Advanced Selling Strategies
The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success
21 Success Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires
Focal Point
Victory!
Create Your Own Future
Goals!
TurboStrategy
Be a Sales Superstar
Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
Million Dollar Habits
Time Power
Getting Rich Your Own Way
TurboCoach
The Psychology of Selling
Something for Nothing
The Art of Closing the Sale
Crunch Point
The Way to Wealth
FIND YOUR BALANCE POINT
Brian Tracy
Christina Stein
Find Your Balance Point
Copyright © 2015 by Brian Tracy and Christina Stein
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First Edition
Hardcover print edition ISBN 978-1-62656-572-2
PDF e-book ISBN 978-1-62656-573-9
IDPF e-book ISBN 978-1-62656-574-6
2015-1
Copyediting & proofreading by PeopleSpeak. Book design & composition by Beverly Butterfield, Girl of the West Productions. Cover design by Ian Koviak, The Book Designers. Cover images by Shutterstock. Photo of Christina Stein by Louis Yansen. Indexing by Rachel Rice.
This book is dedicated to my mother, Barbara, and to my two best friends, Mina Neuberg and Niki Rein. These three incredible women, who have shared my journey to achieve balance, loved and supported me along the way, and have taught me the blessing of true friendship.
CHRISTINA
This book is also fondly dedicated to the three great women in my life: my wonderful wife, Barbara, my daughter and cowriter, Christina, and my remarkable younger daughter, Catherine, all of whom help me find my own personal balance point in life.
BRIAN
CONTENTS
Introduction: Too Much to Do, Too Little Time
1 Determine Your Values and Start from the Right Place
2 Discover What Holds You Back
3 Create Your Vision and Be Powered by Clarity
4 Contribute with Purpose
5 Set and Achieve All Your Goals
6 Set Your Priorities and Simplify Your Life
Conclusion: Four Ways to Energize Your Life
Acknowledgments
Index
Services Offered
About the Authors
INTRODUCTION
Too Much to Do, Too Little Time
Everyone today has too much to do and too little time. You often feel overwhelmed with your duties, tasks, and responsibilities. The challenge for you is to simplify your life in such a way that you spend more time doing the things that are most important to you and less time doing those things that are not important at all.
The best news is that you have the power, right now, to live a life with no regrets, where you feel fully engaged in your relationships and everything you do. You can choose to live a life where each day holds meaning and purpose and brings you joy. You can live a life that is focused, positive, and completely in balance with the person you really are deep inside.
The desire for peace of mind and the idea of living a balanced life are central to your happiness and well-being. When you start to live your life in balance as the very best person you could possibly be, you will enjoy the happiness you deserve and experience harmony among all the elements that make up a successful life for you, as you define it.
Your Balance Point
We are all unique individuals with our own values, vision, purpose, and goals. Each one of us has a different way of achieving true balance. Each person experiences true balance when she is operating at her own unique balance point. It is from your balance point that you experience the highest level of clarity, commitment, strength, and confidence to pursue your ambitions, both personally and professionally.
The key to success in any area is, first, to start from the right place, and second, to know what steps you need to take to get where you want to go.
In karate, this starting point is the ready stance. In ballet, it’s first position. In painting, you prime your canvas. In baking, you set the oven. Every area of life has a correct point from which to start.
Finding Your Balance Point
Your greatest need is to understand how to identify your balance point, move to it at will, and automatically return to it whenever you want. You need to establish your balance point before you can set and achieve the goals that are important to you and live a life that is harmonious and truly balanced.
True Balance
True balance is what you experience when everything in your life feels as if it is in perfect harmony. When you enjoy true balance, you feel clear and focused. You go through your day with courage and confidence. You know what you want to accomplish, and you take the necessary steps to accomplish it. Physically, you feel calm and relaxed. You have the health and energy to do whatever you choose to do.
Emotionally, you feel grounded and happy. You feel connected to others and appreciate your own unique self. Your mind, body, and spirit are in perfect alignment. You feel at one with the universe. This is your goal.
The Inner Experience
True balance is something you experience deep inside. It can be achieved only when you are confident with your choices. Once you have identified what enables you to enjoy this feeling of true balance, it is easier to find and easier to maintain.
You are experiencing true balance when you feel inspired and fully engaged in everything you do. Everything you choose to invest your time and energy into has special meaning for you. True balance is never threatened or influenced by the choices of others because it is a state of mind that is unique to each person. Your requirements for true balance will be exactly what you alone want and need.
False Balance
Generally speaking, people are impatient. They want whatever they want, and they want it now, even if they didn’t know that they wanted it one minute ago. As a result, they gravitate readily to the quick fix of getting back into balance with as little effort as possible. They can easily be attracted to activities that will bring them a sense of false balance rather than doing those things that are necessary for them to achieve true balance.
In our society, we quickly turn to consumption to feel better. We drink too much, eat too much, and buy too many things we don’t need in search of an external means to achieve some form of relief or balance. These false