This article focuses on the lack of balance that many workplace learning and performance professionals experience in their lives. They seesaw between their professional and personal lives and just can't seem to get the floor to stabilize under their feet. The results of the white-knuckle attempts to hang on and the uncertainty are predictable, careers suffer, personal relationships suffer, and mental and physical health suffer. One way out is a personalized work-life plan. In "Fundamentals of Work-Life Balance," an infoline by author Erica D. Chick outlines a process that helps work life program (WLP) professionals stabilize their lives and reveal the path that leads to achievement of professional and personal dreams. According to Chick, WLP professionals must accomplish three primary tasks to stop the seesawing motion of their lives and achieve their life goals.