In our current world, most strive for “efficiency” instead of “effectiveness”. And to do this, we focus ourselves into our expected outputs. The longer we focus, the faster we do things that eventually lead us the increase in our “to do” lists. For the efficient we are, the more rooms we can have to accommodate greater number of tasks.
We are now living in a very competitive era, wherein, most people are way too competitive to get ahead. We tend to be a “do-it-all” person that not saying “no” is highly being encouraged. This may achieved us greater efficiency and fast track of career, however, we neglect to see the price we have to pay in this fast-pace mentality.
Never saying “no” isn’t good at all for you should learn to say “no”. Big task are good to motivate us to improve ourselves but too much will lead us to exhaustion. Not only that, for we tend to neglect a lot of things if we do not learn to say no. After all, anything too much is bad.
Habit 3 of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People teaches us on how to deal with urgency and importance. That’s putting things first without losing balance.
Now, most lack balance in life because we are too pre-occupied with work, love, family, school, business etc., that the least we do is to find time to relax and rest. This lackness causes us to feel stressed, haggard and unhappy with life, which also at times, can lead to broken relationships.
The word “balance” is now very hard to accomplish for many. For with all the things that are going around us, we are being dragged to move fast even if we do not want to. However, some have managed to deal with these things without lacking the time and balance that we all seek to have. For this people have learned the trick that you’d eventually learn from this post.
When we say balanced, it doesn’t mean complete equilibrium in all aspect for it can’t be a perfect equality. Life balance is like your four fingers (exclude your thumb). If you’d look at these fingers, they’re not created equal but almost equal. Such reminds us of the “almost equality” in the four aspect of life, that’s mental, spiritual, physical and emotional. And that’s how we should define balance in our lives. Let’s learn to a lot time to all of these four aspects.
When you start to understand this, you’d realize that life is ain’t hard for you can live it to the fullest, day by day. You’d be able to agree that “busy” is the most irrelevant excuse you can ever say for you’d never be busy because the word “busy” means lack of control on the most important asset of life, which is TIME.
You do have all the time in your hand to build relationship and produce output but it just rest to you on WHAT’s valuable and important that can lead to your happiness.
Aim for balance ‘cause from there, you’d start to attract greater things for you feel positively happy with life. Remember, like attracts like.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of the things which matter least – GOETHE
