How to achieve Life Balance in a World that’s forever getting faster!
Today’s fast moving world has made it harder than ever to bring balance into the highly unbalanced lifestyles of millions of people from all around the world.
But what if it was possible to stop the unwanted cycle of stress, fatigue and frustration and bring balance back into your life? Is life balance genuinely possible, or is it just a cruel and heartless myth?
A couple of years ago I learned that nothing in life is ever as chaotic as it seems. It took a life-changing event, a near death experience to make me realise that nothing is worth poisoning ourselves into a pit of stress, anxiety and personal chaos.
Before my accident there were many times where I would physically and mentally exhaust myself by working ridiculous hours and get no thanks for it, feel incompetent and lose my self-esteem over it. I was always trying to prove other people wrong, constantly fighting and battling, but always stressed and it made me unwell.
I always let my thoughts take control, and the more tired and stressed I became, the more I convinced myself that I wasn’t good enough and as a result my performance dipped.
The important thing to know is there’s always something you can change, and there’s always something you can do. We have a choice about how we invest (or waste) the time that is given to us. I had my wake up call two years ago and changed my career and couldn’t be more happier now.
We all have moments when we allow others to cause us to react emotionally, especially in frustration or anger. Often we regret these responses later, and we vow never to allow ourselves to behave like that again.
Those in life, who learn to manage themselves (and their time) are those who usually go on to accomplish great things.
When we become entrenched in a high-stress, busy and diary filled lifestyle, we tend not to look outside of our ‘boxes’. Unless something shakes us up, we can easily fail to recognise even the most practical options that are available for us to bring calm and balance back in our lives.
Although we all have different interpretations of what work-life balance looks like, most people, in principle, share a similar idea of what life balance means: to have available time for doing things we’re passionate about, outside of a work focused environment.
For some people, life balance could mean time spending more time with family, more time available to dedicate to self-improvement, or even having more time to spend at the gym.
There are few occasions during our brief lifetime when we experience great flashes of personal insight, great moments of truth that immediately change the course of our lives forever.
Mine came from having an accident that left me almost dead and realising that I had been working myself into the ground, but for what? I was stressed, I wasn’t being rewarded and went I returned to work I was just criticized for not getting better sooner. This was when I realised that I could use my skills as an Employment Law Lawyer, my compassionate and empathetic skills, my desire to want to make a change and help others to change my career and do what I do now.
You don’t have to wait for something life-changing to happen, just remember that you only get one life and life is so short. You may be surprised to realise how many transferable skills you have, so if you want change, go and do it.
Over the coming weeks I will be providing a life balance exercise, so keep reading my posts for further news…
