Harmonizing Success – Embracing Work and Life Balance
- Brainz Magazine
- Oct 28
- 3 min read
Updated: Oct 29
Litra Simms is a seasoned real estate broker, author, and speaker with over 20 years of experience helping entrepreneurs, investors, and professionals harmonize success in business and life through strategy, balance, and growth.
In a world where the line between work and life is blurry, finding true balance isn’t an option, it’s a necessity. Having spent over two decades navigating the residential and commercial real estate landscape, I’ve learned that success isn’t measured by the number of deals closed, but by the lives we impact, the relationships we nurture, and the peace we carry into our homes each evening.
The myth of “all or nothing” success
Many of us buy into the story that to “make it,” we must sacrifice our evenings, weekends, health, and maybe even our joy. I know I once believed that grinding harder and longer was the guaranteed path to financial freedom. It wasn’t until I found myself managing several commercial properties, three active businesses, and running a nonprofit that I realized the cost, fatigue, disconnect, and diminishing returns. It forced me to ask, "What is success if I lose myself in the process?".
My book, Harmonizing Success, was born from that question. And my podcast of the same name is a hands-on conversation about how business leaders and vision-driven professionals, just like you, can stop chasing balance and start creating it.
Strategy 1: Choose your core anchors
Balance is not static, it’s dynamic. I ask every client and every listener, “What are your core anchors?” For me, they are family, faith, service, growth, and yes, revenue. It’s only when we clearly identify our non-negotiables that we can structure our schedule around them instead of reacting to someone else’s deadline. In my own agency at Simms and Associates, we established hours for strategy, hours for connections, and hours for renewal. When your schedule reflects your values, you lead from strength, not from depletion.
Strategy 2: Delegate the right way, not just more
Many high performers feel trapped. They’ve built something, but now every task still lands on their desk. The secret is not just handing things off. It’s elevating the right things. In Harmonizing Success, I discuss the “value-add filter”, if someone else can take the task and increase the overall return (freedom, impact, income), then it belongs in their hands. For me, that meant delegating operations so I can focus on mentoring, investing, speaking, and writing, the parts of my business that light me up and scale me.
Strategy 3: Build buffer time, your secret weapon
In my early years, I treated seconds as dollars. Now I treat them as gold. I build “buffer time” into unscheduled blocks every week for reflection, inspiration, or simply doing nothing. Research and experience align. It’s in the gaps that creativity is born, relationships deepen, and renewal happens. In my podcast, we dive into how entrepreneurs create sacred “no-meeting” blocks, digital detox weekends, and ritualized transitions (from business mode into home mode). When we stop being “always on,” we start being present.
Strategy 4: Align ambition with wholeness
Ambition is not the enemy of balance, unaligned ambition is. When you pursue success at the expense of wellness, you’re building a house on sand. Harmonizing Success is about aligning your hustle with your humanity. A thriving business means nothing if your body collapses or your relationships fracture. Success that doesn’t serve your life isn’t successful.
Your next move
If you’re ready to shift from “hustle mode” to “harvest mode,” I invite you to:
Grab a copy of Harmonizing Success, where the method meets meaning.
Listen to the Harmonizing Success Podcast, real talk with real leaders about real balance.
Choose one core anchor this week. Say “no” to one thing that doesn’t serve it. Create one 90-minute buffer.
At Simms and Associates, every transaction is rooted in purpose because every property is connected to a life. And I believe the same holds true for you, every decision, every moment of rest, and every strategic move contributes to your story of success. Let’s not just work hard, let’s work right. Let’s not just live busy, let’s live bold. And let’s harmonize business with balance, ambition with authenticity, and wealth with wellness.
See you on the podcast, on the pages of the book, and on the path to a life well crafted.
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Litra Simms, Real Estate Broker, Author & Speaker
Litra Simms, Broker and Owner of Simms and Associates, is a real estate expert, author, and speaker who helps clients and entrepreneurs harmonize success in business and life through real estate, leadership, and community impact.
