What is this thing called “Balance” that we seek?Aside from it’s regulating measure and weight definitions, Webster uses these three definitions used here to address this inner need we have ”to bring into harmony or proportion” our lives.  Like everyone else, I have days focused on trying to attain stability between productive actions and satisfying restfulness ? trying to get over the have-to-stuff and get on to the good-stuff.  Can you equalize these scales in life? 

Clients seek this answer to maintain a ”state of equilibrium,” and when they can’t find it they look hard to find the “influence counteracting the effect of another,” to bring them back to a more satisfying existence.  There wouldn’t be definitions for this if it weren’t the human condition.  And in coaching I can be helpful to someone who wants to identify their deepest interests and values and live more true to them.  Yet, my short answers from my own experience are these:

1. Find out what you love to do the most and do it as much as you can. (visiting family, being in nature, engaging in creative projects, meditating, exercising, laughing, etc.

2. Love whatever you do the most (when you’re working-do it joyfully-find stimulation in the tasks at hand and welcome new challenges.  When you’re with others-decide when it’s important to be fully focused on them more than on a mutual exchange.  Become curious and renew your relationships this way.  If you’re washing dishes, enjoy the simplicity inherent in the act itself, rather than hurrying to get it over with, etc.)

It’s not what’s around the bend in the road or even the mountaintop – it’s the road itself.

How do you satisfy your balance needs?