Sugar Blossom

Have You Live Your Life in Balance?

How could you decide if your life is in the right balance to enjoy the true pleasure of life? Be honest to yourself on what your true condition is! Coz it would make a domino effect impact to your overall health & the synergy of mind, body & soul. Any imbalance could enhance the risk of having a serious illness, which could manifest either in short term or long term.

The following list identifies the ten most common reasons for getting out of balance. While there are many more, these are the biggest culprits:
1. Overwork—simply putting in too many hours and being a slave to the business.
2. Financial problems—struggling to make ends meet in the business and worrying about how you will pay your bills.
3. Over-commitment—agreeing to do too much for too many people and not leaving enough time or energy for yourself.
4. Poor stress management—not knowing how to manage your own stress or not being able to admit that it is a problem.
5. Relationship issues—with partners, family and friends, co-workers and customers.
6. Poor lifestyle—eating badly, lack of exercise, and alcohol and drug abuse.
7. Lack of direction—feeling trapped and isolated in the business and uncertain about your future direction.
8. Lack of boundaries—being too accessible to too many people.
9. No space to rejuvenate—no holidays, time out, hobbies or distractions to remind you why you do what you do.
10. Having a negative environment or negative people around you every day.

The long-term effects of having a life out of balance would affect on your physical as mental/ emotional health. The physical impact would be more likely to be the most noticeable symptoms; generally starting with headaches, skin conditions and an upset stomach, often accompanied by a general feeling of being unwell. Some people have a permanent cold or flu, get bags under their eyes or start repeatedly hear other people making a comment of: “Gee, you look so tired!” a lot more often than usual.

Along with the physical symptoms come the emotional ones. We start to get more irritable, we don’t sleep as well as we used to, perhaps we start to get anxiety and even panic attacks. Under these conditions we can find ourselves leaning on crutches in the form of drugs and alcohol, or just sleeping all day long inside the bedroom and find it hard to get up for days, or maybe we feel the urge to get at least four cups of coffee to get through the day. We tend to eat chocolate to perk us up, which we would need it often because we have no energy, but which causes us to put on more weight.

Without making conscious decisions to change, and without knowing how to change, things will only get worse. Of course, the longer you have bad habits, the harder they are to change and the more damage they can do. Business owners often tend to struggle the most with establishing a fitness and health regime, simply because they don’t give themselves enough time or energy to focus on it. Someone who has a regular job generally has a start time and a knock-off time, and can be more easily build a fitness program into their life.

Any change needs your persistent inner self commitment. If you are desperate to make an improvement to your situation then you probably have the right amount of motivation. Without the right amount of inner self motivation, any change won’t be able to last as it should.

So from now on, you need to stop and think about just how important it is that you introduce some real changes to your life that will stop the feeling of being overwhelmed, and help you to start to take control of both your business and your life.

Think in the smallest detail possible - about how you want to feel, what it is that you want to do with your time, how you want to look, how you want to act and how you want to live your life. Once you are clear on this - or at least willing to start really looking deeper inside - at each aspect of your life, you can move on.

You can change virtually every aspect of your life so that you can really get the most out of the years ahead. So there may be some pain, other people may not like the changes that you need to make, especially in the short term, and some may even try to sabotage the process (people generally don’t like change, especially in those closest to them). This is where you need to be strong, dedicated and very clear on where it is you are heading.