✊Screw a Balanced Life for an Exceptional One. 🌈😋
Balanced people don’t change the world.
A balanced life is full of compromises and nothing ever achieves absolute balance anyway. Time on one thing makes balance impossible. The work-life balance is a lie, sounding idealistic but not exactly realistic.
Purpose, meaning and significance could be better said as a full and successful life. Pursuing a balanced life means never pursuing anything at the extremes. Don’t seek balance but excellence. Sure that’s not easy to say or do, but that's the challenge.
I strive an aim to be a great father, coach and entrepreneur. I commit to my business, family and children at high levels. This I firmly believe creates an extraordinary life and of course this creates it’s own problems as extraordinary results at work require longer periods between counterbalancing.
It’s this ability and periods of counteracting personal and work life that leads to extra-ordinary results. Something will always be out of balance. Focus your time, decide and prioritize what matters most and give it all the time it demands.
And counteract a period of business or career focus with a counterbalance of personal life. The pursuit of an extraordinary life requires out of balance longer. But in your personal life let nothing get left behind. Work, family, friends, health, integrity are more fragile than work and must be handled with care.
A career can handle greater counterbalancing but both work life and personal life need a minimal amount of love and attention.
When you counterbalance both then it’s possible to achieve greater results and keep them both active with enough care and attention.
What are your thoughts on a balanced life versus counterbalancing?
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This was a fun read. I have featured your post in today's feature.
I agree that sometimes we have to get very unbalanced to go after excellence. I do this periodically working crazy hours to make a deadline and some of the best work that has come out of my studio falls in this category! Not all of it, but some. One time years ago I drove from Los Angeles to New York with out sleeping just to see if I could. Nuts, and extreme but again, sometimes one needs to push the envelope ;-)
We do need to push the envelope at times yes, and then we counterbalance back towards peace and harmony, thanks for commenting.
When you consider that many people aren't in a position to have "balance" in their lives because of their life circumstances, what you say is really profound. I see "counterbalance" as adapting and overcoming so that you can be successful in the absence of balance in your life. Thanks for posting. Upvoted and followed.
Thank you so much for your comment, it is greatly to do with adapting and overcoming yes. And you are so very right, success on your terms is possible while out of balance.