How to Have a Balanced Life: Self-help Books, #1

By Susan Kersley

Chaotic life? Never get much done? Want more balance?

Simple changes can give you big results.  

Are you neglecting important aspects of your life because you don't have enough balance? Do you struggle to achieve what you want?

Let Susan Kersley guide you through simple steps to reach your goals, find more balance and rediscover forgotten parts of yourself.

The author is a retired medical doctor and was a life coach for fifteen years.

How to have a balanced life is a well written, concise personal development book with easy to follow suggestions that will make a big difference to your life. You'll find simple changes you can make today and discover how these will have a rapid positive impact on your life.

Buy the book today and find your way to peace and personal stability.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Susan Kersley
• Release date: Jan 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9781524243654

Susan Kersley

Susan Kersley has written personal development and self-help books for doctors and others, and books about retirement and novels. She was a doctor for thirty years and then left Medicine to be a Life Coach.. Now retired, she is updating her books and writing more. Please visit her website https://susankersley.co.uk If you enjoyed this book, please take a moment to leave a review. Reviews are so important for independent authors.

Book preview

1. Set Clear Goals

When you know what you want you will be much more likely to succeed. Don’t be vague, instead define precisely what you aim for and by what date you would like to achieve.

What leads to failure to achieve?

Being too vague about your goals.

You may declare, ‘I want to improve my work-life balance.’ Or ‘I don’t want to be working so many hours every day,’ then wonder why nothing changes. It’s as if just stating your generalised goals will have the effect of making them happen without any effort on your part.

One of the most important things to do is to be very clear about what you want and to state your desired outcome very clearly and very specifically. It’s also useful to state what you do want rather than what you don’t want.

The top ways to set clear goals are:

Be specific what your desired outcome will enable you to do or be. You could say ‘My goal is to leave work at 5pm each day.’ Or ‘I will swim every evening between 6 and 7pm.’ These statements convert rather generalised, though excellent, goals and crystallize them into specific aims and objectives to know when you’ve completed them.

Be time aware in relation to what you want to achieve. After setting the specific goals, set them to a practical time frame, so you are clear not only about what you want to achieve but also by when.

Be practical about the goals you set. It’s wonderful to push yourself to achieve more than you thought you could, but