Balance of Life

Achieving a Balanced Scorecard

In these frenetic times, where earning a living or attending to a family can seem to take up 90% of our free time, there is an even greater danger of our lives getting out of balance. This was expressed well in the following offering:

What is Important in Life?

If you don’t know what is important, then everything is important.When everything is important, then you have to do everything.

When you have to do everything, you don’t have time to think about what is really important.

 
Anon
It is important to take time to reflect on our balance in life – are some aspects of our daily life dominating all others? Much has been written recently about our work-life balance; how more and more workers are putting in long hours; how the increasing number of women in the workforce is putting pressure on family life; how modern communication is seeing an intrusion of work into personal time. But there are several other important spokes in an evenly-balanced life wheel.

The Ten Point Plan to achieving a Balanced Life

1. Analyse your current situation
2. Make a decision that you will correct the out-of-balance issues
3. Visualise the new you, once you have your life in balance
4. Write down your goals using SMART Goals
5. Identify the obstacles to achieving these goals
6. Identify the skills you will need
7. Identify those people that can help you on the way
8. Fix your mind on exactly what you want
9. Be dogged and persistent, letting nothing distract you
10. Take the first step now – even the smallest step will get you on the way