Today we are faced with a 24/7 word of high-speed communication, keen workplace competition and information Trying to juggle seemingly conflicting demands can be bewildering and stressful. However, with a clear vision and an amount of organisation you can do what's required of you at work and at home, and still have time to enjoy yourself and to pursue your long-held dreams.
Learn to Balance Your Life equips you with everything you need to find fulfilment in all areas of your life. Identify your priorities and allow enough time for them; maximise your finances: use your work and leisure time enjoyably and profitably; and make your home a calming yet energising place to live.
If you are tired of having life dictated to you, Learn to Balance Your Life will show your life will show you how to take control and live on your own terms.
Equilibrium
Have you ever dreamed of living the perfect life? There is no that you'll retire at 50, or reach the pinnacle of your profession or be immune to worry, but you can live a life that's rich and balanced - one in which you have enough time to do the things you want to do in addition to chores such as cooking, cleaning, dealing with household paperwork, and so on; you love your job and do it well; you have fulfilling relationships with friends and family; you feel healthy and energized, and your home is a comfortable haven.
The core skills you'll need to realise your dream of a balanced life. You'll learn how to define your life vision, set your priorities and deploy your time accordingly. You'll also discover how to assess the current balance of your life and track your progress as you seek equilibrium. how to take control and live on your own terms.
What is a balanced life?
Some days you go to work and feel utterly incapable of properly completing even the simplest aspect of your job. You feel exhausted, dejected, and dwarfed by the enormity of the tasks facing you. You bring these emotions home with you when you finally leave your workplace. late, having spent most of the day trying to will yourself into action. At home, every little thing seems to accuse you - dirt on the carpet, piles of unsorted paperwork in the living room, yesterday's dirty dishes spread across the kitchen worktop. Yet you're too tired and listless to do anything about them. Instead, you order a pizza, open a bottle of wine and slump on the couch in front of the TV Sometime after midnight you go to bed, but your sleep is fitful at best, and you wake up the next morning filled with dread. Your life is out of balance. All the elements of your life - work, home, health, and everything else are conspiring to drain you of energy, motivation, and satisfaction.
At other times, everything seems to fall into place. You find your job stimulating without being overwhelming. You come home at a reasonable hour, giving yourself time to unwind; you prepare a nutritious meal with fresh ingredients, over which you consider the events of the day or discuss them with your partner or a friend; and you plan what you'll do at the weekend. Perhaps you make social arrangements, or you decide to tackle home improvement job. Later, you might relax by a hobby or by reading a book, before going to bed for a might's sleep.
Balanced living is self-perpetuating - the positive things you do in one sector of your life spread into other areas. For example, if you look after your health by eating well and exercising regularly, you'll sleep more efficiently and just generally feel on top of things.
However, for many us , this sense of balance is fleeting. All it takes to five some elements to come loose and the whole structure wobbles. Perhaps a spell of hot weather disrupts your sleep, making you feel grouchy and unproductive at work and at home. You procrastinate over returning a friend’s phone call, so that what should have been a simple conversation mutates into an imposing obstacle – a source of stress-guilt, which gnaws away in you every time you think about it.
You should aim to build a solid structure for your life, built on firm foundations, so that the things that currently unbalance you either don't arise or, if they do, aren't allowed to unsettle you for long. At the heart of a balanced life is a clear vision of what's most important to you and what you want to achieve.
When you take a good look at the way you're living, you may be surprised to find that you're devoting a disproportionate amount of time and effort to issues that are important to someone else but have little value for you. Perhaps you're working all hours chasing performance targets and worrying about them while you're at home, causing your health and family life to suffer. Understanding what really matters to you helps you to set priorities and devise objectives to reflect them. Balance goes hand in hand with organisation. This may not sound particularly exciting, but through clear sighted management of the fundamentals of your life, such as your health, your finances, and your home, you can liberate yourself to pursue the things that de excite you. It's a question of establishing systems to keep your life ticking over for example, an annual medical, a weekly financial review, a daily tidy up. Once these routines are in place, and they become second nature to you, you'll find that you take care of issues before they get out of hand, rather than letting them escalate into sources of stress and dissatisfaction that undermine your well-being.
Achieving balance may take some time, especially if you decide that to make a major change to your life, such as finding a new moving house However, you won't necessarily need to be radical - just tweaking your existing routine can yield great benefits. You schedule some exercise sessions every week or make a point of housework every Saturday morning to set yourself up for weekend - anything that makes you feel that you're gaining a measure of control over your life.
Often, we see ways in which we can improve things, but when it actually taking the necessary first step, we can't move. We may berate ourselves for laziness, but it's rarely as simple as that. Changes can be frightening, and familiarity is comforting. So, for example you stay for years in a job that you no longer find challenging, get on well with your co-workers and you're afraid that be able to find a more rewarding job elsewhere.
Another self-imposed obstacle to improving your life may be the feeling that to spend time, money and thought on yourself would be How can you justify such self-indulgence, you think, when there are other people to worry about? However, by shaping your life in a way that brings you happiness and fulfilment, you make yourself stronger and better able to attend to the needs of the people you care for. Priorities that seem to conflict often coincide.
Balanced living in the 21st century
The modern world places great emphasis on personal choice. In an average day we all make countless decisions- there's a range of products for every need, a computer command for every circumstance, a sandwich filing or every palate. All this gives us unprecedented opportunities to shape our lives in lots of small ways. However, having to make so many choices, often with little or nu time in which to consider them, can become overwhelming How do you decide which options will enhance rather than detract from, the balance of your life?
Technological advances, such as satellite communications and email, now make it easy it contact people anywhere in the world at any time. The Internet offer you access to vast amounts of information that in the past would have taken days. Or weeks, to collate, and computer technologies enable us to do more in less time than ever before. Other modern conveniences abound - for example, fast foods, cell phones and air travel. If we can fulfil our responsibilities at home and at work more quickly than before, then theoretically we should have more time. to relax and enjoy ourselves. If only life were that simple!
All these benefits of modernity have negative consequences as well as positive. In the computer age it's easy to fall into the trap of spending more and more time at work trying to become ever more productive. Fast foods have considered increased prevalence of obesity and diabetes in developed countries. Ease of travel can result in our being away from family and more than is good for us. And being accessible outside work hours to clients or co-workers via our cell phones can cause work concerns to invade our home life.
We are more likely than previous generations change jobs regularly and to move to different regions or even different countries. On the one hand, this flexibility gives us a to meet new people and sample a wide variety of cultural and working environments. On the other hand, it may make our lives feel unstable, especially as the growing trend for organisations to hire fixed-term contracts means that often our job changes are dictated to us.
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