Despite efforts to balance the Wii fitness game, Wii perseveres in evaluating me as "uneven." While it is true I feel a little stressed with a new book coming in May, and on more than common sense dictates, to be balanced is a challenge.
work reminds me of the balance games. Some days I feel like I was floating in my bubble is a series of lazy river, enjoy the virtual sunshine and feeling quite balanced, when unexpectedly, the bees attack, the current push me toward the shore, and my protective bubble pops against the jagged rocks. To fight the bees and the current, rather than crashing into the edge, I have to change my condition.
However, as soon as you bring back some of the state, something or someone to change our priorities, we are thrown into a tornado like force into a new crisis, challenge, reorganization, customer problem, or an associate, staff, or the chief problem.
Of course, there is more to our lives from work, and constantly changing elements of the family, health, finances, and emotional well-being creates its asymmetric impact. You never know what lurks in the shadows of new priorities, uncontrollable events, or an emerging reality.
However, this elusive concept of state is not only about the ever-changing priorities and challenges. We also cover our expectations and desires of others, that they want to create a balance for us, or at least, stop affecting our precarious situation.
We complain that our employers do not carry out the work family balance, our government is over-regulated or under-regulated issues dear to us, or our time is swallowed another, regardless of our personal well-being. We often see a balanced life as an outside-in attempts. However, people who are winning at working know that this is not the case. They understand that the right balance is an inside job, as unique as we are.
What particular part of the balance you want, need, and seek to work (or life), as the story of Goldilocks and the three jedinke.Kaša is too hot or too cold, the chair is too big or too small, while Goldilocks finds one that is "just right" for her. This is the key.
The creation of individual well-being and balance, people who are winning at working know that what May be too much for you, maybe a little too much for me and vice versa. They do not expect what you mean by balanced is the same for everyone they work with. We want and need different things at different times in our lives, for various reasons. I like change, it changes. For some, work and play the same thing, for others, certainly not the
.People who are winning on the use of self-awareness drive for balance. They are looking for incentives, paying attention to their emotional, physical, social, spiritual and mental well-being, adjustment. They realize there are consequences for them, at work and at home if they stay too unbalanced.
This means that they are considered a priority. How can you be of value to others, if you are in an unbalanced state? However, the situation is more than a moment of self-awareness and adaptation. This requires knowing what the balance is for you.
Are you more aligned with the saying: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," or words of Warren Beatty: "You've achieved success in your field when you do not know what you're doing is work or play," or somewhere in between? There is no right or wrong balance. This is what is good or bad for you.
As the African proverb reminds us: "There are three things one must know to survive long in the world: what is too much for him, which is too small for him, and what is just right for him." Do you want more work-life balance? Start by figuring out what those three things mean to you.
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