I used to be a strong advocate of balancing your life. Creating balance in all we do until i listened to this talk "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OkzozrUEHY" by Dan Thurmon, an author of 2 books, a renowned speaker and a recognized in delivering peak performances. This talk changed my perspective about getting fulfilled in life, creating the life that i love.
My learnings;
- Perfect balance is unachievable and,
upon closer inspection, undesirable. The perpetual
quest for balance ends up limiting growth, progress, and the quality of
life. This is because, life patterns are constantly changing and evolving.
And this pattern is peculiar to you, nobody shares the same pattern as
you. Balance tells us to protect our time, compartmentalize our time and
we usually find out we don’t have enough time to do that.
- In order to grow in
life and also create that wonderful and fulfilling life we have always
imagined;
- We need to lounge ourselves into uncertainties when we don’t even know where we are going. We should not limit ourselves to what is comfortable to protect ourselves. Accept and take advantage of the contradictions in your daily life. We should be willing to make ourselves uncomfortable by leaning forward to opportunities to grow. Accept risks and responsibilities. Initiate positive changes that lead to growth. Up our stakes. Look for greater opportunities. Stretch ourselves. Embrace uncertainties with clear objectives, realizing it’s just one thing at a time (not too many things at the same time). BE PRESENT AND ON PURPOSE!!!!!- Most importantly, if we want to grow, do something more difficult than we are doing now.
- We need to connect every aspects of our lives—work, relationships, health, spiritual growth, and personal interests—into a workable, fluid, sustaining pattern. Adopt a practical, concrete process for orchestrating changes and staying aligned with your purpose. That we can be healthy, have a great family, relationship, grow spiritually and still perform excellent at work. The opportunities are infinite to gain control and transcend beyond our current patterns of connecting the aspects of our lives.
3.
The
only way to have control in the off-balance environment which we live in is to
elevate our focus. If we limit ourselves
to what is comfortable to protect ourselves, we deny ourselves of what is
possible. If we are unwilling to lean forward to opportunities to grow, we
might start going backward. We
can reach beyond our levels of success by giving ourselves opportunity to grow
from one level to another. We can do
that when we lean forward, make ourselves uncomfortable, leverage our
resources, embrace uncertainties- OFF BALANCE ON PURPOSE.
