Integer Leadership Consulting

Maintaining balance between our professional and personal lives is a difficult dance. Most of us are far more familiar with being out-of-balance toward the side of our professional lives. Work responsibilities and anxieties can easily dominate our thinking and, in the process, steal the joy and hope from our personal lives. If left unattended and unresolved, this imbalance has a profound impact on our sense of internal joy and hopefulness while also affecting almost every relationship we count as precious and valuable. The slow loss of this balance, usually explained away by the words “commitment,” “loyalty” as well as the expression “the price that must be paid for professional advancement and recognition” is in reality an insidious and stealthily-disguised disease that eats away at one’s sense of worth, esteem and hope. Furthermore this chronic imbalance can actually destroy, rather than enhance, morale in the work place.

It is a rare thing to encounter a colleague or friend who, if they are honest, will not resonate with this dilemma. Most of us have been there, are there and will be there again. The question is How do we commit to our work and success while maintaining solid boundaries with our personal lives?

Jeffrey Yergler, who has taught and led numerous presentations and discussions on the matter of Building and Preserving Professional and Personal Balance in Life and Work. If your staff, team, or department is seeking to explore creative ways to address this critical topic, you are encouraged to contact Jeffrey Yergler at ILC to explore ways that his expertise and experience can match the needs of your staff and the desired outcomes for your teams. Please contact Jeff at: jdy@integerleadership.com or call at: 253-230-1024 for more information.