When I first received a copy of The Momnificent! Life:  Healthy and Balanced Living for Busy Moms –  ISBN 978-0-9743832-4-8, I figured it would be impossible to get through.  The book is long, over 300 pages prior to the reading lists.  Lori Radun, a certified life coach, explains the dips and hills of parenting.

Lori Radun breaks life into eight areas and explains in the very first chapter how balance is a process.  This is a fact that I believe we all forget and need to be reminded of regularly.  Balance is not a one time thing – done and will stay that way.  Balance is a living term that changes as your life changes.  I wholeheartedly recommend this book if for no other reason than that.

Each area of life – in no particular order, personal development, fun and enjoyment, relationships, spirituality, personal finance, health and aging, career and profession, and home and family – has several chapters written about it.  Each chapter begins with an inspirational quote.  Each of the 59 chapters ends with an action assignment.  One of the reason I have taken so long to write a review is I wanted to work on the action assignments so I could explain.

I know that time management is often a hard issue for mothers.  I am going to discuss this chapter specifically.  The chapter discusses time management and ways to find “spare” – my term, not Lori’s – time in our lives.  The action assignment starts with making a list of activites you want to make time for and ends with commit to participating in at least one activity from your list every week.

I did the list making.  I am good at making lists.  I, then, had to follow through on commiting to participating in one activity.  I admit I am not quite to the point where I am good at this consistently.  But, as much as I hate to say it, having it in writing and being accountable to myself for what I have started, does push me to do at least one activity.

While Lori intended this book to be to help moms add balance to their life journeys, the book is wonderful for anyone having problems trying to gain balance.  The items that are discussed may all evolve around being a mom but moms are people and other people will benefit from the book also.

Take some time today to look at at your life.  Do you wonder how it gets away from you from time to time?  Pick up a copy of Lori Radun’s The Momnificent! Life and gain some perspective on how to journey through life in balance.