Craving Balance In the Media
Sloan Work and Family Research: When We Swallow the Myth of Having it All, We Get Heartburn of the Soul
Bellingham Herald January 2010: For 2010, Make Realistic Work-Life Balance Goals
Miami Herald January 2010: For 2010, Make Realistic Work-Life Balance Goals
Noozhawk October 2009: Noozhawk Talks: Craving Balance? Lisa Gates Can Help You Achieve It
Noozhawk November 2008: Craving Balance: New Business Coaches Work-Life Balance
Craving Balance Articles
Goal Setting from the Inside Out
5 Jan 2009
It’s so curious how we spend the last weeks of the year in a sugar-plum-induced family frenzy of parties and holiday sweaters, and expect to walk into our lives on January 1 ready to drill down and get things done. To get our minds focused back on what...
How to Launch a Revolution in Your Evolution
28 Apr 2008
You know those half truths and white lies we’re all so accustomed to telling? The ones we all think save our butts, but leave us a little flat, a little grey around the edges? Ever wonder what it would be like to slip into Jim Carrey’s character in...
The Real Trouble with Productivity
10 Mar 2008
I have a confession: I cringe at the word productivity. Getting things done. Saying that feels like being against democracy or love or Buddha or something, but I feel that much of what passes for productivity is simply ubercybersonic doingness dressed...
How to Start a Writing Critique Group
4 Mar 2008
Did you say you were going to start writing that book this year? If you’re looking for a way to honor your word(s) and put your writing life in action, starting a writing critique group will catapult your accountability and get you in community with...
Job Satisfaction: Can You Love the One You’re With Before You Move On?
18 Feb 2008
Have you ever noticed how jobs are like love affairs? You hit a bump in the road, even a patch of bumps, and there you are, climbing in bed with the statistics and making the livelihood you love all wrong. One day you wake up and say something like,...
How to Use Time to Make 2008 the Best Year Ever
2 Jan 2008
Of all the things people cite as the reason they don’t start or finish something—write that book, lose the weight, build the business, or invent the widget—time lands squarely at the top of the list every time. What clients say time and again (sorry)...
10 Questions to Ask Yourself to Regain Your Work-Life Balance
24 Dec 2007
Last night my 11-year-old came into my office (9 p.m. to be exact, foreshadow, foreshadow), and said, “Mom, can you please get off the computer and be with me?” I should know better, right? After all, achieving work-life balance is one of the staples...