The best, simplest, explanation for finding balance in life

Two authors who work together at a world class company
Balance isn’t between work life and home life (it’s five things, not two)

 

For a variety of reasons, and especially those reasons being led by media of all sorts, we have some nebulous notion of balance.

Balance isn’t absence of stress. Which is what many people think is the byproduct of balance.

Balance is taking a personal inventory (at whatever intervals we choose) and giving ourselves a grade or evaluation on how much energy we are expending mentally, physically, spiritually, professionally (at work), and personally (at home).

Our energy ought to feel like no single area of the five is being neglected. It should feel like each area is symbiotic with the others.

When one is enhanced, all are enhanced.

When one is diminished, all are diminished.

And we want to be in a place were we can recognize it nearly instantaneously, and even to predict it in the future and take action now to mitigate it.

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Habits are formed from desire and from lack of desire

Habits are formed from desire and from lack of desire. Like in this video tribute to Nelson Mandela, who passed away the day before (12.05.13):

 

 

We see what we want to see… either a self-indulgent showoff, or a humble servant leading the way through action and results.

(today, March 17, was tempted to remove video – marketing director said to leave it, in memory of NM)

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Accepting ‘I don’t know’ for a lifetime is a form of codependency, no?

Thanksgiving Dinner table all set
Accepting ‘I don’t know’ for a lifetime is a form of codependency, no?

 

Three reasons why it’s time to figure it out:

1. What we see as weakness in another has actually been handed down to us from our parents (or guardians).

2. Not paying attention to our health manifests itself in different but similar ways – putting off a health habit for so long it backfires.

3. Not pushing back is part of being codependent.

We People are way more capable than we give them credit for.

Being organized enough so we can make regular exercise activity a part of our life is the responsibility of only one person.

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