Welcome To The Pursuing A Balanced Life Podcast!

The Pursuing A Balanced Life podcast was originally launched in March of 2006 as the “My Crazy Life” podcast. The original concept was for this to be my, Cliff Ravenscraft’s, daily audio journal. It was simply a place for me to share my thoughts on any topics that were on my mind where I didn’t already have another podcast devoted to those topics.

In May of 2009, I made a decision, after nearly 400 episodes, to rebrand and rename the podcast to Pursuing A Balanced Life. Over the years, it became obvious, from the feedback I was receiving, that this podcast had become extremely inspirational to people as they followed me on my personal journey of finding a balance between my focus on my career, my desire to be a great husband and father, my desire to become more physically fit and healthy, and to live a life of faith. One of my favorite episodes of Pursuing A Balanced Life is episode 425 titled “Follow Your Passion And The Money Will Follow.”

If you like this show, you may also like the Podcast Answer Man or Family From The Heart podcasts. Of course we invite you to please check out the complete list of our podcasts.

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515 PABL – What Is Most Important?

by Cliff Ravenscraft on May 11, 2012

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In this episode of Pursuing A Balanced Life, I share an update about how I’m trying to fight to keep margin in my life.

Lately, I’ve been blessed by having my brand exposed to thousands of new people every single month and and there are more requests for my time than I have time to say yes to.

I share how I’ve gone through and got more clear about what I want to say yes to and what I want to say no to.

I also share about how great life is without any notifications, badges, or sounds coming from my cell phone all day.

I hope that this episode is a source of encouragement to you.

Don’t forget to tweet about your pursuit of a balanced life, joining us in the #PABL campaign.

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514 PABL – There Is A Chicken On The Side of The Road

by Cliff Ravenscraft on April 13, 2012

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If you want to know what is included in this episode of Pursuing A Balanced Life, you’ll just have to click the PLAY button.

I recorded this episode earlier in the week and shared most of the things that have been going on since I last recorded.
I could go through and preview the episode at certain spots and make a list of topics. However, I’m behind schedule for leaving town for Nashville for the weekend.
Hope you don’t mind. Also, the title of this episode will make sense about 2/3 of the way through.

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513 PABL – Amazing Things Are Happening

by Cliff Ravenscraft on February 29, 2012

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In this episode of Pursuing A Balanced Life, I share some exciting news about the various things that have been going on related to my work/life balance.

I’m happy to announce that I’m finally in a place where I am experiencing a good deal of margin on a consistent basis. With that said, I am always faced with the opportunity to fill all the empty spaces on my calendar with work that I enjoy so much.

I also share some exciting business things that I have been working on these past few weeks.
At the beginning of the episode, I do share an update on how things are going in my pursuit of physical health/fitness.

Hope you enjoy the episode and that it is of some value to you.

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512 PABL – Off To The Hospital To Get Checked Out

January 7, 2012

Click Here For The Latest – Update #7 – Final Update Update #1 January 7, 2012 2:40 PM – So here I am. I am sitting in my office/studio and I am packing up my briefcase with all my tech gear for what could be a few hours, days, or potentially weeks at my local [...]

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511 PABL – Awesome Advisors And So Much More!

December 1, 2011

In this episode of Pursuing A Balanced Life, I share what has been going on, in my mind, as it related to what I had read up to that point in the book “E-Myth Revisited.” I think it is important to point out that, a few days after recording this, I had finished the book. [...]

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510 PABL – When Is Urgent Not Important?

November 22, 2011

In this episode of Pursuing A Balanced Life, I answer the question that was asked by @hbgreg on Twitter where he wrote “When is urgent not important?” I do a bit of rehashing some of what I shared in episode 509 about the time management lessons I learned from chapter 3 of Dave Ramsey’s EntreLeadership [...]

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509 PABL – Big Things Are About To Happen

November 14, 2011

In this episode of Pursuing A Balanced Life, I share an overview of what has been going on in my life since September 27th, when I last released an episode of this podcast. I am so excited to share not only what has been going on since I last produced a PABL podcast episode but [...]

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508 PABL – Freedom To Move Forward

September 27, 2011

In this episode of Pursuing A Balanced Life, I share quite a bit about what has been going on since August 31st. The Following is a list of some of the topics that I covered. – Why has it been nearly a month since episode 507? – Burn Out Meltdown on Episode 175 of Family [...]

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507 PABL – Employee Or Contracted Worker?

August 31, 2011

In this episode of Pursuing A Balanced Life, I share my thought process as I ponder if the next step in my business would be to hire an employee or if I should simply stick with contracted workers. I lean toward the model that I have seen work well with Dan Miller. Also in this [...]

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506 PABL – Looking Forward To The Year of What?

August 25, 2011

In this episode of Pursuing A Balanced Life, I share how I sometimes feel guilty for going out and taking a walk during what I would typically consider business hours. I also share some thoughts on how I am challenged with new ideas about possible opportunities that exist with the future of my business pursuits. [...]

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505 PABL – Year of Providence Confirmed!

August 15, 2011

In this episode of Pursuing A Balanced Life, I give a review of what has happened since December of 2010 when I recorded episode 483 of this show titled “The Dark Days of December 2010.” I share a few short audio clips from previous episodes to summarize my journey of faith in 2011 as it [...]

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504 PABL – Happy Birthday To My Awesome Wife – New Routine – And More!

August 10, 2011

In this episode of Pursuing A Balanced Life, I share some thoughts about how blessed I am to have Stephanie as my partner in this life and how that most everything I have accomplished these past several years has been possible because of the love, support, and often, the sacrifice of my beautiful wife. Today [...]

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503 PABL – Boundaries While Walking

August 1, 2011

In this episode of Pursuing A Balanced Life, I share that I have been listening to the audio book, Boundaries by John Townsend and Henry Cloud. I also share my latest thoughts on traditional reading v/s listening to an audio book. After you get a chance to listen, feel free to leave a comment here [...]

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502 PABL – It All Comes Down To What Happens In The Morning

July 26, 2011

In this episode, I share my recommitment to my early to bed and early to rise routine. However, this time, I’m looking to make some modifications to that routine based upon my experiences from the past. After you get a chance to listen, feel free to leave a comment here on this post! You can [...]

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501 PABL – The People I Am Blessed To Work With

July 20, 2011

In this episode of Pursuing A Balanced Life, I share how excited I am about redesigning my work space in the gspn.tv studio, aka my office. I didn’t intend to go on and on about the details for as long as I did, but I hope that this episode inspires you to consider your own [...]

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500 PABL – The Balancing Act Continues After 500 Episodes

June 6, 2011

I can hardly believe that I’ve just recorded my 500th episode of Pursuing A Balanced Life. I had considered waiting until I had some major announcement to share or some massive breakthrough in my life to talk about during this podcast episode that marks a significant milestone reached. However, as I shared in this episode, [...]

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499 PABL – BlogWorld NYC Recap

June 2, 2011

In this episode of Pursuing A Balanced Life, I do my best to share the amazing experiences that I had while in NYC for BlogWorld. I talk about hanging out all day with Fred Firestine, the gspn.tv meetup in Bryant Park and dinner at John’s Pizzeria. I share the story of how I was invited [...]

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498 PABL – Making Difficult Decisions That Many People Will Not Agree With

May 21, 2011

In this episode of Pursuing A Balanced Life, I share a recent decision that I had made and why I made it. I hope that this episode will clearly explain why I recently deleted a particular group from the gspn.tv community site. Since I made the decision, I feel a major weight lifted off my [...]

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497 PABL – Something Big On The Horizon

May 12, 2011

In this episode of Pursuing A Balanced Life, I share my thoughts on the fact that I have not had any intentional physical activity for the past several weeks. I share that while I’m still experiencing a great deal of margin within my schedule, I have noticed that I have been struggling with my early [...]

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496 PABL – Defensive Scheduling

April 21, 2011

In this episode I share the following topics: McKenna’s Birthday. How I’m using Wunderlist for my Task Management. My recent thoughts on Inbox Zero. Podcasting A to Z Update. Where I’m at in my Scripture Reading Schedule. My Early To Bed And Early To Rise Routine. My laid back approach to Spring Break Week. Adjusting [...]

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495 PABL – Trying Not To Feel Bad About Not Feeling Bad

April 19, 2011

This episode of Pursuing A Balanced Life was originally recorded on Sunday April 10th. However, as the result of my schedule and trying to stay committed to the amount of margin I have created for myself, today is the first chance I’ve had to publish this episode to the web. In this episode, I talk [...]

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494 PABL – It Took Two Days To Record This Episode!

April 7, 2011

In this episode of Pursuing A Balanced Life, I record from inside the studio to get caught up on the back catalog of audio feedback that had been submitted for this podcast over the past two months. Wayne Henderson called in to say how much he has been enjoying the occasional audio boo updates that [...]

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