Balance your life
We are all so darn busy these days, that it presents a challenge when balancing all of our priorities. We all have the same 24 hours a day, and we all need to allocate the proper amount of that for sleep, for our career, and into the rest of that precious time we fit everything else into. For those of us who have dual career families, this presents even more of a challenge. We have to fit all of our required household and family duties into the remaining time during the week, and over the two days of our weekend. It gets really easy to try to cram so much into a short amount of time, that we lose that important break for ourselves. We need to fit in time for the “significant others” in our lives, our family and friends, and our overall health.
There is no right or wrong answer to this dilemma. It is a matter of determining what is right for you. What provides you the most joy, outside of all of the other things that we have to do? For some of us, it’s jumping on that Hartley and going for a ride, sometimes with the destination not clear in our head when we roll down the driveway. For others it’s sitting by the water with an interesting book. For still others it’s spending time out in the garden, or doing repainting, repairing, or improvements in our homes. Whatever provides that relaxation for you, you need to plan time for it routinely. I have seen the huge difference that trying to get a little bit better balance in life can afford you. Take the time to smell the coffee, or smell the roses, or smell the wonderful aromas of baking pastries. And for my dear Harley friends, “Screw it, let’s ride”.