Creating Balance in Your Life

So you are a husband, father, teacher, entrepreneur (when the chips are down), brother, uncle, church volunteer, resource person, and you have just 24 hours to be all at once. You feel completely out of place and aren’t able to be one of these things to the best of your ability. You wake up feeling you have infinite responsibilities to accomplish in a finite allocation of time. You go to bed at night feeling like a worse crap than the one that awoke some hours earlier.

          You are not alone in this. Facts don’t lie and it may be interesting to know that you have for a company over 50% of the population of any city in the world. Unfortunately what I just shared with you doesn’t make you feel any better about this situation. You may actually feel worse off – who wants for a company a host of stressed folk?

          What you need is to create balance. Have you seen one on those funambulists [/fjuːˈnambjʊlɪst/] – those fearless people that walk on thin tight ropes? What’s the one word you’d use to describe them? Balance? You are right. They must master the art of creating balance – internal and external balance – else they’d be dead with the first try at public funambulism.

Life is very much like walking on a tight rope. If you don’t create effective balance – internal and external (and in that order) – you’d fall off many ropes until you give up living. If you will be the best you can be in all your roles and responsibilities you must make balance the underlying principle that holds them together.

Internal balance is that which comes from within you. It is the spiritual, the conscience, the inner you. It is the beginning point, the means to an end. When you have it sorted out you will give the external something to work with and build its balance upon.

External balance comes from without. It is the organization, the focus and prioritizing, the outer you. It is the process, the end that comes from a means. Your glory – what the world can see.

I will be writing, in the next few articles, how to develop internal and external balance in your life. These principles will apply irrespective of where you are or what you do.