Balance Matters

As an entrepreneur's coach, part of the responsibility is to work on the client's balance.
Entrepreneur's tend to be energetic, hard-driving and single minded. We certainly want to support those characteristics that promote organizational development and growth, but most entrepreneur's also have a life, outside their businesses. That life needs attention too.
Unless there is some balance between the work life and the personal life, both will suffer. When clients for my coaching services ask what I can do for them, I usually begin by telling them my aim is to help them have lives of purpose, balance, and results.
There is an exercise, The Eight Equities of Life, that I've used to help my colleagues review, then gain, or re-gain some balance in their lives using their own priorities. The eight equities are descriptions of the roles and responsibilities in our lives. They are:

• spiritual equity,
• physical,
• professional(career)
• personal or individual,
• intellectual,
• psychological/emotional,
• social and
• financial

Entrepreneurs can build an excellent "life base" for themselves by setting aside time to examine their understanding, beliefs and feelings about these eight equities of life. Then the responsibility is to set priorities and allocate time and heartbeats according to those beliefs.
Balance for entrepreneurs is about purposeful living, responding to the entire scope of needs, in ourselves and in those we care about and love.