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You have responsibilities to your family, your workplace or school, your kid's sports and social activities, your community. All competing for your valuable attention. Today's frenetic lifestyles can leave you feeling depleted, listless and stressed out. And the last thing you need is a guilt trip! You need Life Balance, a dramatically different way of handling time and task management, that can gently guide you to follow through on your priorities. Life Balance offers a unique way to keep from getting side-tracked when things get hectic, so you can stay focused on what is really important to you.

Even in this fast paced modern life, you can channel your effort effectively to reach for long term goals, explore your own projects and aspirations, manage change, and carve out the time you need to live well. Our customers tell us that our unique approach to time management combined with our Life Balance software makes a significant difference in their daily lives. Use Life Balance software for Palm OS, Macintosh and Windows to power your priorities.

Life Balance™

The To Do List for Real Life!

Download our 30 day FREE trial, and get started today!

Available for
Palm OS, Macintosh and Windows.


 


Overview | Additional Platform Details | Ways to Learn More


Overview:

Life Balance is award winning coaching software that provides a dynamically ordered To Do List driven by the importance of your goals, your desired allocation of time and effort, and feedback from what you get done each day.

Life Balance is a time and task management program that helps you focus on what's really important to you and actively balance the often conflicting demands of career and personal life. Life Balance emphasizes the intrinsic importance that you've assigned to your projects and life goals, rather than arbitrarily filling every slot in your calendar. This helps you to spend your time and energy on what matters to you the most. You can be self-directed, and know that you are working toward long term goals while still managing your day-to-day routine.

Some of the features that set Life Balance apart from most to-do list software are:

  • A built-in outliner so that you can organize your tasks into projects
  • The ability to reprioritize all the tasks in a project by dragging a single slider
  • An unlimited number of places (categories) that you can use to filter your to-do list
  • Dependencies, so that Step B won't appear on your list until Step A is finished
  • Routine tasks, like laundry, can be scheduled to happen with a flexible interval rather than scheduling for a particular day and time
  • Lead times to gently bring your attention to approaching deadlines
  • Integration with the schedule in your Palm's built-in Date Book
  • Pie charts that provide feedback on how you are spending your time
  • Unique "balance" feature nudges your to do list to help to bring your actual time and effort allocation more in line with your desires
  • An active and knowledgeable User Community available in the User Forum to help answer questions and discuss how to get the most out of Life Balance software.

Life Balance helps you to set priorities and increase personal productivity in a very new way. Items on a to-do list can have a high priority for different reasons: because they are part of an important project, because the deadline is near-at-hand, because you are in the right place to take action, or because you have been neglecting the task.

Internally, Life Balance uses fuzzy logic math techniques to balance all these competing factors. As a result, it can provide you with an easy to use, sorted list that makes it simple to figure out what is the most important thing that you can do right here, right now.

Ultimately, Life Balance is software designed to help you achieve that feeling that you are living authentically and following your own unique path.

We have customers who have been successfully using the Life Balance self management methodology since 1995.


Additional Platform Details:

Desktop Edition for Windows!
Desktop Edition for Macintosh!
Mobile Edition for Palm OS!

Each Edition is a great application on its own. Even better when you sync them together! Using Life Balance for Palm and Macintosh or Windows together is like taking your own personal Life Coach with you everywhere!

Life Balance is arranged around an Outliner, where you break down projects into manageable tasks. You can schedule your appointments in either the Life Balance desktop Calendar application or on the Palm in the built in Date book application. In the Task details, you can set where a task needs to take place, set the importance of the task to the project to which it contributes, add notes, and post the task to a Calendar. You can set hours for Places when they are open for business. You can set up a shopping center or town to include other places. In the To Do list, you get a view of your tasks in order of priority, with the most important tasks at the top for where you are right now. In the Balance section, you set up a pie chart which shows how you would like to be spending your time and effort. The Balance section then compares that to how you have been actually spending your time and effort as you check tasks off your list. Life Balance then makes adjustments to the To Do List view dynamically, to help you bring your workload into a balance that works for you.

With the new Desktop Editions in our product family you get all the power and flexibility of Life Balance. The desktop editions sync with the Life Balance Mobile Edition for Palm OS for easy data entry from your big computer! The conduit syncs among multiple interrelated databases with its own sync logic to avoid unnecessary and confusing duplicates. The Desktop Edition provides an easy reconciliation interface that puts you in control to say which record should be used. Desktop Calendar entries are synced between Life Balance and the built in Palm OS Date book so you can take your Life Balance data with you as you run errands, go to work, and pick up kids from school.

Use the Desktop Edition for strategy and long range planning. Use the Palm Mobile Edition to deploy your plans and get things done.


Ways to Learn More:

Our web site contains lots of resources to help you get started with Life Balance. One of the best things about Life Balance is that there is prompt, friendly and efficient support through the web site and email.

If you're new to our Life Balance software approach, our walkthrough provides a quick tour through Life Balance, with actual screen shots from the Palm OS mobile edition to illustrate how it works. Want more screen shots? You can browse screen shots for Mac and screen shots for Windows.

We've recently made an Audio lesson as an experiment in our spare time, and it seems to be generally well received so far. If this kind of media format is helpful to you, please let us know. We would like to expand the content available. The more people who say they are interested in having more QuickTime and MP3 files available, the more likely we are to invest the time to get it done!

We've also included the complete Online Help for the Desktop Edition for Macintosh. The Online Help includes lots of screen shots and hints on how to make the most of the software on the Macintosh platform. The Windows edition contains indexed help files which are very similar.

Visit our lively and helpful User Forum where you will find Tech Support and a great community of customers willing to share their experiences using Life Balance every day. Topics for Life Balance are discussed, as well as more general topics related to balancing work, home and leisure activities.

The online manual Advice Book for the Palm OS mobile edition goes into more depth. We've optimized the Advice Book for web viewing with animations to show in detail how to operate the software gadgets. One of our beta testers says,

"Wow. I just read the advice book. It's quite good. There's a lot in there --you should force people to read this." Laird Popkin, Chief Technology Officer, Sothebys.com

Well, we can't force you to read the Advice Book, but it certainly is highly recommended!

We also have a Frequently Asked Questions section that keeps itself sorted by the most common queries.

If you have a question about compatibility with other applications on your Palm handheld, check out the Third Party Compatibility area to see which Palm OS applications do well with Life Balance.

Coach Lisa is a certified Life Balance Associate and Consultant

If you need personalized help in setting up your goals within the Life Balance software, we have partnered with Lisa Kincaid, Life Coach. Coach Lisa had to pass our exam and be knowledgeable about resources. Software Services and Fees are discussed directly with Coach Lisa

 

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