LIFE BALANCE
What is life balance? Is a balanced life actually possible in this fast paced maniacal life of ours?
Most people are stuck in an undesired redundant pattern of stress, frustration, hopelessness, and exhaustion. But perhaps what we perceive as chaos in each of our worlds is not as dramatic as it seems.
It is definitely not worth experiencing anxiety, stress, and despair!
It is not worth receding our health over the exhaustive inessential tenets of our life. Some are invalid assumptions of our self-worth, such as that we are not important or valued by others; or some are valid situations we find ourselves in such as severe indebtedness. Nevertheless, there must be a way in which we can overcome these struggles of life and maintain balance amidst the utter confusion.
By committing to achieving performance targets, defeating company records, accomplishing personal bests, and struggling up the corporate ladder, is not necessarily going to bring fulfillment or contentment to life. As Kain Ramsay rephrased, “There’s always something you can change, and there’s always something you can do”!
You have a choice how you are going to devote or misuse your precious time. Do you allow others to provoke you emotionally, especially with an infuriated response or irritation when you don’t get what you want?
We are often sucked into a one-way vision where we are so busy, stressed out, anxiety filled and our calendars are overfull, dragging us into a deep hole, where we are incapable of seeing outside our world into a broader objective perspective. Until we are ripped out of these redundant patterns of our lives, we will not simply see the most practical beneficial alternatives for our life, where we could experience a calmness and balance in our daily living.
As previously emphasized, life is more than stress, anxiety and holding your breath. Balance in your life could attribute more time with your family, time for self-development and reflection, quality time socializing with your friends, relatives and the community, and time to invest in your health by exercising and eating healthy. With life balance you can benefit from emphasizing your successes, success that is built on something that is lasting, and not something that is fleeting and eating away at your core. Life balance invests in your future, a sustainable contentment – which makes you live!
By adopting an insightful awareness of which minor adjustments could contribute to how you are living your life, could have a great sustainable impact on your quality of living. Changes do not have to come with a “bang,” minor adjustments taken day by day; can change the redundant patterns in your life. Its time to take stock!
As the Life Enrichment Matrix© considers the dimensions of an individual that develop wholeness and balance in life, we will follow a series of episodes to guide us into this journey of finding balance. The season with their episodes will be found within the quadrants of the matrix. It requires involvement of each person, commenting on the blog and privately answering some self-assessed questions to ascertain where your own life balance lies. Should you require assistance during your journey of assessing balance in your life, please book a session in the online coaching section.
Join me in the following season 1, episode 1.
Elvira
JustLive coach
elvira@justlive.co.za
"The key to keeping your balance - is knowing when you've lost it." Anonymous
Wow! what a good read! Thanx.