Learn to Balance Your Life: A Practical Guide to Having It All - Softcover

Hinz, Michael; Hinz, Jessica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811843017 ISBN 13: 9780811843010

Publisher: Chronicle Books, 2004

Synopsis

If only there were more hours in a day! Until there are, Learn to Balance Your Life is the book for anyone trying to make time for work, family, friends, and even for themselves. The authors -- life coaches and psychologists -- show that, with a clear vision and a bit of organization, balance is close at hand. Their commonsense approach teaches readers how to identify key values and goals, and the practical steps it takes to turn those dreams into reality. Workshop-style exercises help develop vital skills for managing time. Sections on family, relationships, finances, career, health, and home offer encouraging ideas for making everyday life more fulfilling. Learn to Balance Your Life is the guide for anyone who's exhausted by trying to do it all -- and looking for a better way.

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About the Author

Michael Hinz, Ph.D. and Jessica Hinz, Ph.D. are husband and wife life coaches and psychologists. Michael has practiced psychology in the U.S. Air Force, and Jessica teaches at Maryville University and Southern Illinois University. They live in Fairview Hei

Michael Hinz, Ph.D. and Jessica Hinz, Ph.D. are husband and wife life coaches and psychologists. Michael has practiced psychology in the U.S. Air Force, and Jessica teaches at Maryville University and Southern Illinois University. They live in Fairview Hei

Reviews

Pretty illustrations may draw browsers to this ambitious self-help guide, but its dry prose and its rapid treatment of many complex subjects make it little more than a primer to "having it all." Husband and wife psychologists Michael and Jessica Hinz organize their book into six major areas, devoting one chapter each to career, money, relationships, home, health and self-actualization. Introducing them all is a section on "Equilibrium," in which the authors explain their belief that "balanced living is self-perpetuating-the positive things you do in one sector of your life spread into other areas." The first step, they say, is to set priorities and identify goals, since having a "vision" of life can help people realize their dreams. In each of the subsequent chapters, readers will find true-to-life examples of stressors-such as feeling trapped in an unrewarding job-as well as a few suggestions on how to smooth out such problems. For example, one solution to the stress of having a disordered house is to conduct 15-minute daily tidy-up sessions. Some of the suggestions (host parties, have massages, book hotel getaways, install a sound system in the bathroom, build an extension onto your home) will be reasonable only for relatively affluent readers, though. And 20 pages is hardly enough to fully discuss career, money or relationships. Nonetheless, the authors do succeed in showing how seemingly unrelated areas-such as work and health-can be connected, and their book might serve as a useful overview (and inspiration) for readers looking to improve many areas of their lives at once.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811843017
• ISBN 13: 9780811843010
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160