One Key to the Door of Success is Balance

I am a take-charge kind of person. I consider myself an enterprising person. I have many goals I want to accomplish and many dreams I want to fulfill. I feel accomplished in the past goals that I have set. I feel confident that I will reach the goals I have set for my life and myself.

However, in light of that and in all honesty, things in my life could run more smoothly if I understood the principle of balance.

I had a friend who was selling real estate. I knew her for many years. She did rather well selling real estate. She eventually was a single mom of a very bright little girl.

My friend was also very overweight. She had to be the most intelligent person I knew at the time and we used to have a blast sitting in coffee houses and diners talking about everything under the sun.

She and I were very close and shared about our relationships, life's puzzles, goals we had, dreams we had.

It was always very pleasant that time I spent with her and she was one of the few people that I could discuss books that I was reading and be able to have an intelligent conversation about the topics.

She had three goals in life...succeed in Real Estate, raise her daughter in a way fitting to her and lose weight.

We used to work out together. She was a very athletic woman...even ran in a marathon. She had her daughter enrolled in many extracurricular activities after school and her schedule was set to the exact minute.

She did well for time management.

However, there was one thing that bothered me for her own sake as a friend to her. She was immediately available to her real estate clients all the time. Her phone would ring and whatever she was doing she would drop and get down to business.

That is a good thing right? The answer is yes and no.

She would often tell me that with the three areas in her life that she was working on, she would state that out of the three goals, one always suffered.

1. If she was doing well in her real estate sales and she had everything in place with her daughter including quality time...she neglected her work out and this did not help her lose weight.

2. If she focused on her fitness goals as she did when she was training for the marathon in Chicago, either her real estate sales took a dip or her daughter was feeling neglected.

Balance in life is like trying to juggle three or four balls with only hand.

As soon as you take care of one ball and it is up in the air, another one lands on your hand forcing you to make a decision on what to do with it. If you hold on too long, the other balls fall out of line and possibly hits the ground.

When I took yoga last summer, I did it primarily because my daughter loves it. I am much more into the aggressive, die-hard kind of work out like weight training, Kickboxing aerobics, Raquetball.

When I used to teach, aerobics, heck I did not even pay attention to the stretching, that is so important in physical fitness.

It was not until I took my yoga class that I realized just how critical "balance" is.

If you look at the big picture in so many ways, balance is everything.

A balanced meal is the best way to diet

The human body alone lives in a state of homeostasis, which means that everything in your body is working in an order. When something threatens homeostasis, it is forcing the body to be OUT of balance, the body then reacts or responds in specific ways to bring balance back.

For example, why do you have chills when you have a fever? It is the body's way of bringing itself back "IN LINE"

A single mom who lives for her kids will often times not look her best. If she focuses only on those around her and not include herself, she could do more harm than good.

She needs to find balance.

You may have many goals in life and that is a good thing.

Prioritizing could help you go a long way so that your focus is on what is most important to you.

Just remember that balance is critical to fulfilling your life goals and dreams

As they say "you can have anything you want...you just can't have EVERYTHING you want.