Well the time has finally arrived to practice what I preach on work life balance and get this Blog going. My name is Jerry and I arrived in the USA at the end of the summer 2005, moving my family from the UK.

My first 40 years of life were spent living in England, and for the last 11 years I have been married to the most wonderful American – she has served her time in England! We have two kids, aged 10 and 7. We all moved here, arriving via New York City after a transatlantic journey on the Queen Mary 2.

My passionate interest is life coaching – in particular concerning the area of Work-Life Balance (WLB). What is that all about then?

Over the next few posts I will cover these topics in some detail, in a way that will hopefully help anyone reading them. I am here as a professional qualified coach. I have a great life, balancing my work (which I love) with time for family; we all walk to school every day – even in a Kansas City winter! We live with my parents in law (temporarily!) so as to maximise the time they spend with their grandkids. I spend time on my own self development by getting my tennis game in shape. Friends and socialising is an area I am working on having left this back in the UK!

In short my goal is to live a life of perfect balance of all these areas. This balance changes – it is different for everyone, contiunal work in progress.

So coming to the US was a means of achieving this balance for me. In future posts I will examine some of the techniques that can help you achieve your ideal balance.