I decided to name my coaching practice "Perfect Balance" a while ago as I felt I had achieved that enviable state of inner peace and perfect balance. I felt at peace with myself and the world, and I wanted to help others do the same.

Nothing major has changed in my life in the past couple of weeks and yet I feel that the pendulum keeps swinging back and forth from the point of balance. Why is that? I am still the same person, my life circumstances are still the same, I still have the same loving family then why do I feel like my life is out of kilter? And, more important how do I bring balance back again, as I am not happy in this state.

I tried to analyse the reasons why, and I realised that an insidious process had started taking place. I had had a few extra night calls in anaesthesia, this led to me feeling tired due to lack of sleep, I stopped running and exercising as I was too tired, this then started a vicious cycle of tiredness, comfort eating and grumpiness, and while nothing major had occurred my whole life had changed in 2 weeks and I did not like the change. What I find amazing is that I went from "perfect balance" to loss of control in a short time and without realising it!

After a discussion with Rachel(my wonderful peer coach) today I decided to put an action plan into place to regain my equilibrium and yes, you have guessed correctly, I will start running again and everything else will fall into place.