Get The Balance Right
Author: Dr Colinda Linde
Publisher: Metz Press

Book review by Cara Mullin

Are you juggling a career, husband, children, friends and other social responsibilities? Do you rush around like a mad thing busy all day and then at the end of the day cannot pinpoint anything constructive you have done that day?

Get The Balance Right will help you recognise exactly how many balls you have to juggle. There are more than you realise. For example, did you know that relationships are part of your juggling act? Did you realise scheduling in some “me” time will help you cope with all the other balls you have to juggle?

Dr Colinda Linde, clinical psychologist, wife, mother and business owner has first hand experience on juggling so many balls and shares with us in her book how to recognize all these balls and how to manage them and keep them in balance.

She gives us useful tips on how to plan our time wisely by scheduling in the non-negotiables first. She reinforces the importance of eating healthy and getting sufficient sleep and exercise to help you cope.

She shows us how to recognize and reduce our stressors by focusing our resources on situations we can control instead of stressing about those we can’t. She describes our different inner coaches and lets us see which one we should be listening to. She also emphasises the importance of tapping in to support structures and recognizing relationships we think are supporting us, but could actually be harmful to us.

The most important message I got from this book, was to recognize all the balls I have to juggle, and schedule them into a weekly calendar so that each are accounted for. This gives me a sense of achievement at the end of the day as I tick off all the tasks or balls that I juggled that day including small things like phoning a friend, having a half hour of quiet time with a hot cup of tea and packing school lunches.

Get The Balance Right brings to my mind the part of the emergency procedures talk given by a cabin attendant before the flight takes off. "In the case of the oxygen masks being released above your head, those with children must first put on their own oxygen masks, before you put on your child’s."

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