Balancing your life

Why do we need to balance our life ? Life just goes on as it is.  Yes, if we give up all our needs and wealth, life will go on as it is like the monks. Life is simple and we eat what we have been offered or make available by other people. As a layman, we have a lot of burdens, responsibilities and basic needs. Our resources and time is limited and we need to balance all these factors properly.

For example, we need money and we need time for  our self or our family members. If we need more money, we will need to work more or longer . Time is the limiting factor. If we are sick because we over work, the time factor comes in , that is our health. So, instead of having to balance our money and our working time, we have to spare time and money to maintain our health. If we still have our parent, again, the fourth factor came into play and we have to balance the four factors and so on or so forth. More and more factors will come into our life ie wife, children, mistress , brothers and sisters, etc. So, imagine the list gets longer and longer.

So, 24 hours is not sufficient for us to handle all these factors and we will do it on alternate days or once a week or once a month. Now, we have to prioritize things and allocate sufficient time for each factor to ensure everything is managed properly. If one of the factors fall out of alignment or time, all other factors will need to be re-arrange again and adjusted accordingly to bring back the harmony in all the factors.

Life is juggling with more and more balls in the air with our two arms or time which is the limiting factor. We have to time the throw and the catch  of each ball and if one factor missed the timing, the whole act collapse and we may hurt our self in the progress.

We have to be careful and cruel at the same time and we will need to eliminate some of the factors, so that we have time for the remaining factors. If we are wise and simple then we can reduce the “ ball in the air”.  As the first step, re-look at all the factors . Look at it seriously and eliminate as much as possible to make your self lighter and more manageable. Do not be too ambitious at the start and acknowledge  the difficulties as you cut deeper and deeper.

Most important factor is to balance your monetary needs with your health.  As good health means you get more money or spend less money. Health is wealth and these two factors are closely linked. If we balance these two factors well, the rest of the factors will fall in line and will listen to you.

Namaste.