The Brilliant Balance Blog

Last week, as I listened to a prospective client tell me about what she wanted to do with her life, I fell in love with her dream just a little bit. I found myself sitting up straighter, listening attentively, nodding along and smiling knowingly. It happens all the time in these early conversations. I get […]

Picture this. This morning, while Kelly was getting dressed, she noticed her skirt had a small tear. After assessing the situation from several angles, she sighed. Is it really worth changing clothes at this point? Instead, she dug two safety pins out of her dresser and hastily closed the gap. Truth be told, she briefly […]

As we enter back-to-school season here, with all three of my kids savoring the last minutes of summer before entering their brand new classrooms with their brand new teachers, I can’t help but be nostalgic about my first back-to-school day as a parent. Because you see, eight years ago, my firstborn (who starts eighth grade […]

Work/life balance is a huge topic. And some people, rightfully so, are tired of hearing about it. You might be one of them. Let me go all historical on you for a minute. When the 40-hour work week was implemented by Henry Ford nearly a century ago, it was revolutionary. In fact, it was probably […]

I remember the assignment like it was yesterday – a one-page paper for my Comparative Lit professor during my second year at Cornell. “And that one-page limit is FIRM, class. Don’t test me.” After reading, and researching, and note-taking my way through the project in a Diet Snapple-fueled frenzy (this was the 1990’s in New […]

I still remember the first day I paid someone to clean my house. (Gulp.) Before I made the call to hire someone, I had tossed the idea around in my mind for years. I kept telling myself that it was an unnecessary luxury. I really could do it myself. My mother always did and still […]

I believe there are people in this world who regularly experience deep satisfaction. I’ve just never counted myself among them. I’ve spent years labeling my never-ending dissatisfaction as “Divine Discontent” writing it off as just the way I’m wired. No sooner do I cross an accomplishment off my list than I tackle the next one. […]