A good life reflects a good balance between work and personal, we hear it all the time. Leaders and coaches advocate for the idea of maintaining a good balance between your ambitions and living your life are crucial to long last success and how important downtime is for all of us. The truth is we all come to a stage in our professional journey where we can’t afford balance, it is either do or die. The instinct of the overambitious is to achieve it all and achieve it according to their own timeline. Balance can also seem a fancy word to people who must constantly work to keep up with their bills, or an entrepreneur who has just started a business and will do anything to see it succeed.
How do we achieve balance for everyone? Is it action-based, or does it start from our mentality and outlook? There are some people who can go on a vacation and still think about work and set new goals, there is no guarantee the temporary discontinuation of work will bring balance in our lives. The idea of working the week and taking a break on the weekend limits the strength of balance. Balance is achievable through actions; however, it must first be achieved mentally.
A balanced mind is a key to a balanced lifestyle. One must learn to activate their brain towards focusing on the task in front of them, when working don’t think about their personal life, and when at home don’t think about work. It is quite simple, all energies into what you are doing now. It will produce better results, you will do the task faster, and will have a lot freer time for yourself. I personally love my life to be chaotic, with endless tasks to be achieved. I work best under a lot of pressure and short timelines. I usually fill up my plate with too much and constantly challenge myself to achieve more.
The one thing that helps me keep up my mind and body with my ambitious personality is the art of practicing mental balance. I taught myself to only focus on the present. Previously if I was watching a movie, my brain was elsewhere planning about the next day. If I was working, I also kept thinking about dinner preparation, constantly planning in my head, and calculating my sales figures. The one rule to solve all the chaos and lead a happy life is, all energy into what I am doing. At times multi-tasking is acceptable if you are distributing your energy correctly, but don’t do it if you are producing better results by taking it one task at a time.
The key to achieving mental balance is made of up more than just living in the present. It needs a clear mind, which in principle means cleansing your mind of negative thoughts, overthinking, and unnecessary worrying about life. Some of us can get too caught up thinking about a specific problem we are dealing with, and that leads to doing everything else with a partial existence because our mind is somewhere else. We could be worrying too much about an exam, a relationship, a loss, difficult circumstances, how will we pay our bills, what is our purpose in life, do we need a new job, am good enough and so many more questions that we waste time asking ourselves when we know the answers to it we just have to actively live our life to discover the solutions.
Once you teach yourself to be smart by focusing your energy on the right proportion, you then implement actions to feel more balanced. It could be making time for daily exercise, meditation, spending time with your kids, watching a movie, doing something for yourself, or even going on a vacation. The agenda is all these actions will bring the best results only when you maintain a balanced mind and can immerse your whole self in both work and home activities. It is all about making it simple.
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