So WHY do we need balance anyway?
Shouldn’t we just live and let live as the old saying goes?
Well, sure you can but how well is that working for you?
I like to think of BALANCE and HARMONY being intertwined. Balancing is weighing the reasons and priorities in comparison and importance of different things. What are your priorities? What are your core values? What is really important to you in your life? We were created with a natural, innate desire for harmony and balance within our soul.
When we feel like life is starting to lose focus or purpose, or just starting to lose control. Or that we’re about to completely lose it! Especially if that has been a pattern in our life, it’s a pretty good indication that there are some things out of balance.
But, Fear Not, you can overcome and course correct.
Believe me, I would say to a certain extent I have lived the majority of my life way out of balance. I’m grateful for the help I have had along the way from trusted and loving mentors, coaches and friends, and I would add, strangers.
I’m even grateful for the ones who had to be incredibly firm with me when I just wasn’t “getting it”. Things had to get pretty bad before I woke up and realized I really needed a course correction. I had dug a pit for myself, and I needed to put down the shovel and quit digging a deeper hole!
Now, as I said earlier HARMONY is intertwined with BALANCE. I LOVE to sing and harmonize. Think of a time when you were in a group where people were singing, or perhaps “trying” to sing – more like making a “joyful noise”. Perhaps even a group of adorable preschoolers who were just belting it out and cutting loose with the noise they could make but absent of any harmony or balance, just pure and raw elation in the moment. You might have been a tiny bit glad when they were done, as sweet and adorable as they were!
Now, recall a time when you might have heard a barbershop quartet, a beautiful duet, or a choir or symphony singing or playing in perfect harmony. Each voice an instrument, fine-tuned, perfectly balanced as they converged as a whole unified sound . Music to your soul, bringing a sense of peace that all is well in the universe and you can just “feel” the HARMONY, deep down, a deep sense of satisfaction.
God really did intend for us to feel that way in life through BALANCE and HARMONY with Him.
So, if reading this strikes a cord in your soul that you are in need of more BALANCE and HARMONY in your life. There’s help.
I encourage you to look a bit closer at the following aspects of your life and identify on a scale from 1-10
(1=Panic 5=Moderate 10=At Your Peak):
___ Physical Health
___ Emotional Health
___ Spiritual Health
___ Financial Stability
___ Career
___ Professional Social Support
___ Closest Relationships Time
___ Scheduled Learning & Personal Growth
___ Recreation & Fun
Now, total your numbers = _________
How’d you do?
10-25 = Crisis 25-50 = Unhealthy 50-75 = Healthy 75-100 = Optimum
If your scores were low, please don’t despair, don’t panic! Take a deep breathe. You are not alone. There is hope and there is help.
You can make the choice today, right here and right now to change the course direction you are on. It’s never too late, ever.
Take care, take time to pause. Start with the Top 3 areas you want or need to focus on to start weaving BALANCE and HARMONY into your life. It really is never too late to start. Take heart and reach out!
I’d consider it an honor and a privilege to journey with you . I’d love to help you discover all the possibilities that life has for you, as God intended for you in Love, Harmony and Balance with Him.