How’s the balance in your life? Is there supposed to be a balance in life? What is “life balance”?
People talk about having a balance in life. Being dizzy definitely isn’t comfortable, so balance makes sense. You don’t want to be all work and no play. That might make your hair gray.
What is a balance? It’s when you don’t create self-conflict, self-sabotage, start fires that have to be put out, or neglect the things you know you shouldn’t.
If you work late seven nights a week and you are married with children, then you are out of balance. Somebody said that if you can’t get it done in forty hours a week, you’re doing something wrong. It’s not an absolute truth, but it’s a valid point.
If you’re growing a business, at some point, you’ll have to decide if it’s a one-man-band, or are you building an orchestra to tour the world? There’s a vast difference in how those two activities are approached and sustained.
Here is a balance assessment, free of charge:
- How are: your health, your wealth, your stealth, your knowledge, and your wisdom?
- How are your family relationships?
- How is your partner in life and any offspring?
- How are your friends, cohorts, colleagues, and coworkers?
- How are your pets and plants and how does your garden grow?
- How is/are your home(s), your car(s), and other worldly possessions?
- How is your city, state, and country?
- How is Earth doing?
- How do you fit in with the universe?
- What do you give all of the above and what does all of the above give you?
Did you think this was going to be easy? One step at a time. You don’t have to obsess over it all or turn into a Kaizen aficionado or pull out your Feng Shui manual, but balance is balance and clown dance is clown dance.
“You gotta start somewhere.”
Who said that? I did. I’m the one typing here right now, so it was me.
Start with you. What do you know, what can you do, what have you done and how are you today?
On 1-10, assess and clean up and/or repair what needs to be cleaned or fixed.
It can’t be done in a day, but it will lead to better balance and may also stick a smile on the front of your head. Try it. It is not an exercise in stress or futility.
“Make a new plan, Stan.” – Paul Simon
One step at a time.
