When it comes to your personal success, which we’ll define as your sense of happiness, satisfaction and significance, you want the best results. However, if that’s not happening, you’re probably not practicing.

Producing the best results takes practice, even if you’re gifted, or if things come to you naturally. This is as true for personal success, as it is for business and career success.

Most people expect personal success to just happen, but it’s usually not that simple. You’re busy with work, family and easily become distracted by the day’s demands, the expectations of others, and the confusion of your own negative self-talk and doubts. All of this erodes your focus. (more…)

Perfect balance. Someone once told me that he had tripped over that, as he was heading from one extreme to the other.

When you lack balance, you can fall too far in one direction for too long, and at the same time lose what you have, and fail to get what you want. In this state of imbalance, you flounder, waste time, experience stress and feel drained of energy.

When you have many responsibilities, things to do and goals to achieve, it’s more likely for things to be out of balance. Why? Because it’s easy to focus on one thing like work, while foregoing things like having fun or getting enough exercise.

Perfect balance occurs when you act on the most important priorities that you have set for yourself in life. In doing so, you experience a sense of harmony and satisfaction with the results, and how you’re rewarded.

To achieve perfect balance requires discipline and structure. This means motivation and consistent action, and a plan. (more…)