Balance

What is the ability to maintain the center of gravity of a body within the base of support with a minimal postural sway?

Balance.

We never put too much thought into balancing ourselves because it is something that comes fairly natural while we are growing and learning how to walk. Without knowing how to control the balance of your body you will fall all over the place. Which will make getting up and trying again more and more difficult.

If you have ever watched a baby that is learning how to walk, you will see how awkward and uncoordinated we all were at one time. Through persistence and determination though, the baby eventually learns how to balance himself and walk.

Our life is the same way. We are constantly attempting to balance work and pleasure, family and friends, business and emotion. This seems to be an ongoing struggle to get all the things that you like or love to do in your life to balance out.

Sometimes it seems like there are not enough hours in a day to equally distribute your attention to all the things you are doing. There are many programs out there that can help you find balance in your life, but I am just going to keep it simple today.

Figure out the things that are most important in your life and spend a majority of your time on them. Whether it is your family, your faith, your business, or anything else that you enjoy doing, prioritize the things in order of importance to you and you will find the balance in your life that you are looking for.

Once you find balance in your life, everything seems to fall in place and become easier, just like when a baby finds his balance, walking becomes easier.

Here are some more thoughts on balance.

Enjoy!

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
-Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
-Francis J. Braceland, O Magazine, April 2003

What I dream of is an art of balance.
-Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954), O Magazine, April 2003

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
-Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
-Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, April 2003

Figure out what is most important to you and prioritize everything around it. Make your life the way that you want it, complete and Balanced!

Till next time, live with passion!

You're the Best!

Dallon Cox II
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