Misc.

Misc.

Here’s the goal: experience all life has to offer – especially the stuff that doesn’t fit into a neat little box. You will be able to make this happen more often with a well-balanced life. Balance is not a daily activity. If anything, you should seek to balance out your life on an annual basis. What I mean is that it’s ludicrous to think you can give equal weight to your health, relationships, business, spirituality, money, and career every single day. It’s just too much. So, how does it work? Projects and priorities. It all starts with knowing what you want to accomplish and intentionally scheduling everything you can in advance. Some things can be done in huge chunks (like cleaning out your apartment or completing a 30-day trial on a new diet), while other things (like making time for your significant other or showering), have to be addressed much more frequently.

The Dilemma

The challenge you will face is the dilemma of the great decision. By making a choice to do one thing is also a choice to NOT do everything else. I can’t stress enough how important it is to grasp this concept when you are seeking to discover your life path. The natural tendency is to keep your options open. However, the necessary evil that accompanies this line of thinking is that you will never truly choose anything. You will always find a reason to not fully pursue something important because something else might come up. In my own life this just may be the one factor holding me back more than anything else. I have a very hard time making decisive choices, mostly due to the fact that I get about a thousand new ideas every day and I think that all of them are brilliant! They’re not, but they are horribly distracting nonetheless.

Keep the ideas flowing but make plenty of time to dice and slice the bad ideas and make forward progress on the good ones.

My Misc. category is meant to filter out all of the business updates and random ideas from the four main categories that I write on most prevalently. I will keep these posts to a minimum, but they are just as important as the other categories. Balance is important, just not all the time.