God's a real kidder. He consistently gives us a 30-hour fill on our daily to-do list yet aligned our planet into a 24-hour day.
What to do? What to do? Do we do what we want to do (also know as fun)? Do we do what we have to do (also know as work)? What about a combination?
Most people, for the sake of their own sanity, pick a combination. But how much of each? What we want to do (fun), all too often doesn't bring in enough money to feed the dogs. What we have to do (work), isn't always, well ---- fun.
Life balance is in the mix.
Genuine, honest-to-goodness, wouldn't-trade-with-anybody, life balance is in the mix of the various aspects of our human existence (Spiritual, Family, Social, Financial, Emotional, Physical and Intellectual)
Seven aspects divided by 24 hours means we must then devote approximately three hours and 45 minutes daily to each aspect to have a truly well balanced life, right? Except for the truly anal, of course not. Life balance must be more like Webster's New World Dictionary definition of balance: pleasing harmony of various elements...; harmonious proportions as in a painting.
"Harmonious proportions as in a painting" -- I like that. We're all busy slapping colors on our life's canvas. A little bit of family blue, a touch of social mauve, just a smidgen of intellectual gray, and since we're all not painting the same picture, maybe for us just a little dab of financial green in the corner will make the picture we want. But how do we know how much green and should it even be green?
The key to a well-balanced life is knowing the proper proportions. And we can't know the proportions until we know what want the picture to be. Too many folks today are diligently, doggedly, daily painting without the foggiest idea what they want the end result to look like, and then blaming the picture for turning out as it does.
What do you want your life picture to look like?
Lesson: The choice of how your life is balanced will be made. If you don't choose the "proportions," then something else will.
The all-leather, NFL-regulation football, inscribed -- 1963 Chicago Bears
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