Sometimes, being out of balance sneaks up on us. Sometimes loud arguments between spouse and spouse or with our children, gives us a clue that something is wrong. We’re not living a well balanced life. Sometimes we’re so dense we don’t even realize it.

”Whole life have balance. Everything be better. Understand?” Pat Morita aka "Mr. Miyagi"

The easiest way to prepare for an out of balance situation, in our lives, is to know what the different parts are of living a life of balance life are. I am not an expert on this yet, but if you pay attention, hopefully we can improve on balancing our lives together. There are several components of a living a life of balance.

The Components of a Well Balanced Life are:

Family and Home Life - See Family Life How we relate and interact with our family and friends.

Financial and Career - See Work Satisfaction

Mental or Educational - Continuing to grow & develop. Keeping a Sharp Mind

Physical Body and Health - Why People Should Exercise.

Spirit, Spiritual and Ethical - Your Spiritual Life.

Social and Cultural - Our Social Life.

Each of these pieces of a well balanced life could be viewed as a spoke on a wheel. If any spoke is broken that is equivalent to a flat tire. If we ignore any of these primary areas of our life, the ignored portion, can be the part, that causes major havoc in our life. For instance; bad eating habits or failure to exercise are a way of ignoring physical and health.

“Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.” -- Robert Fulghum, American Author

This could effect work, home life, financial and spiritual. When health is out of balance it screams out taking away balance in other areas until corrective actions are taken. Sometimes the out of balance part causes us to seek answers not only to it, but also to, some of the other neglected areas as well.

“Next to love, balance is the most important thing.” -- John Wooden, Hall of Fame Basketball Player and Coach

When I had my health crisis, I was no longer living a life in balance. It caused me to seek answers to both my health and spiritual deficiencies, although at first it was my health screaming the loudest.

“Quite frankly, I don't think "time" is the problem. The real problem is the number of activities or tasks that we take on.A sign of our time is that we forget how to say "no", and take on far too many things.” -- Catherine Pulsifer, Web Author

The focus of this article is to help you live a well rounded life. It would be a dis-service to talk about how to balance life and work and leave out the spiritual part of the equation. Be sure you read Your Spiritual Life.

If you reach the end of life as a nasty, bitter, joyless soul with no inkling of where you will spend eternity I would have been remiss by not saying anything to you.

Become the the you, you always wanted to be.

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