For a long time, I was really just a two dimensional person. It was all about work and family. For many years it stayed that way. I had to cut out just about everything else. But I think I am wiser now. I am trying to find more balance in my life.
I always thought of balance as a state of peace and stillness. However, I have a new concept of what balance means now. I believe that balance is really more like walking on a balance beam. You’re always making little movements here and there to stay centered and stay on the beam. You’re never completely still.
I understand there will never be such a thing as perfect balance in my life. Instead, I’m constantly re-adjusting my schedule and shifting my priorities.
As long as we keep finding our center, making small adjustments, and walking the straight and narrow I think we are going to stay on the beam. 
Lisa Hammond
The Barefoot CEO ®
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I can’t begin to tell you how much this post spoke to me. I am that two dimentional person in transition! I spent the past 16 yrs pouring myself in to my kids and my work at the expense of lost friendships! I wouldn’t change what I did with my kids. However, I would have tried to find a better way to balance all aspects of “me.” My kids have reached the age where they are no longer as dependant on me and I’m trying to figure out who I am, what I want and how to redevelop the other dimension(s). In raising my kids, this has been the most difficult transition because the defined me – they were who I was and now they are becoming young adults – and I’m having a hard time figuring out what’s next. I have renewed some of the old friendships and made new friends. I’m looking for new and challenging things to do. I’m moving forward. There are still days that I’m at a loss but I’m trying to seize new opportunities as I go along. Like you said it it is a balance beam – little steps in differenct directions.
Thanks, Lisa