Life Balance – what the heck is “life balance? Quite literally, life balance is balancing all of the different parts of our life – home, family, career, community time, private time. They all need to be there for us to be happy, to feel successful, and to feel whole.

Finding balance is not about dividing our lives into little partitions, and allocating a certain amount of time to each partition. Sometimes the divisions between partitions blur, which is natural and normal. In the flow of life, what takes priority, what has most importance, will shift and change. We need to be aware of our priorities, and make sure that we are not short-changing ourselves anywhere.

How do we do this? We find that which we are passionate about, and honor it. We reflect it into all parts of our life – into home and family, work and play, private and community. We surround ourselves with our passions – we make them a part of our life. We make the time to have personal time – we schedule it, if necessary, just as we schedule work activities.

Three- day weekends are great ways to recharge ourselves. Allow time to follow personal pursuits, to play, to do personal study. Whatever our needs are, we must honor them. Visit the farmers market, cook the meal of your dreams, read a good book, go see a play, go hiking, visit a new city. Do what brings your heart joy!

Set your boundaries, and enforce them. If you don’t have the time, don’t take on that extra project at work. If you want to take a three-day weekend away from home, don’t agree to stay home and work on the house.

Know who you are, know your priorities, and reflect this into your life!

Blessings,

Bonnie