Tag: Balance

Casual effort in HQ contaminates the other four

Iowa River dam in Iowa City
The past is water over the dam. The future is up to us.

 

The in-box of life just keeps filling up. Day after day. Relentless. This is why HQ organization is so critical to balancing our mind, body, spirit and career.

Get too far behind or too disorganized on what’s a priority and what isn’t and everything else is contaminated.

We stress out so our attitude gets tainted. We don’t have time to exercise, so our health insidiously declines. We don’t have time to pray or be still, so our focus becomes more on ourselves and less on others. We struggle to keep up at work and we are passed by for opportunities and growth.

We know this.

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How much planning ahead is the right amount?

Hotel lobby tourist brochure rack
This is the tip of the iceberg for all the brochures on the tourist rack

 

Insight: The biggest part of making dreams comes true involves two things. Seeing the dream clearly. Figuring out how to make it happen. Profoundly simple. Simply profound. For example…

How much planning ahead is the right amount?

Did you catch the lowest right brochure ‘art is...’ because planning ahead can be art if we do it in a way that balances under doing it with over doing it – and infuses our highest priorities into everything we plan for.

The husband and wife of 56 years never expected a visitor from Florida.

Classic wow: under sell, over deliver, because only one person (yours truly) knew it was a remote possibility.

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Note: Surprised in-laws with a four-hour visit. Some day, sooner rather than later, one of these visits will be the last we see of each other.

 

It is really challenging to do it all, but there’s a catch

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It’s incredibly challenging to shed old, deeply-entrenched, unproductive habits. And with five big choices in life, this makes it exponentially more challenging.

But here’s the catch no one tells us.

Success in one lends to success in another.

I recommend slow and steady progress, never ending focus, indomitable will, and a healthy balance of humor and seriousness.

Getting increasing closer is a blessing of power ball payoff.

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Oprah, quick question

Oprah magazine about decluttering
De-Cluttering our life is worth it’s weight in gold

 

Oprah, quick question. Have you de-cluttered enough to find time to exercise?

Work life balance, done well, speaks for itself, with or without a world class television show (or magazine).

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