How To Live A Fulfilled And Balanced Lifestyle.

 

How to live a fulfilled and balanced lifestyle.

We all want success. Part of being human, is the desire to be the best, to live your best life, but often we don’t know how to achieve that lifestyle. 

To live a balanced life, we need to be working on all areas of our life. It’s no good having millions of dollars, but losing the family in the process. Or working so hard, your health suffers. A fulfilled and successful life, is all about balance.

I wrote an article recently about balance (when depressed) and talked about the 7F’s; Faith, family, finances, fitness, fun, friends and function (vocation). 

Here’s a link to that article, should you wish to read it: 

http://alexandragrose.blogspot.com/2021/02/bored-depressed-and-unhappy-its-time-to.html 

However, we can take this a little further and delve a little deeper, to include other areas such as intellect, morals, parenting, career, quality of life and vision for the future. Some ideas to think upon are as follows:

- When we talk about intellect, ask yourself what books would you like to read this year, what areas can you work on to improve your mind, job, relationships and the like. 

- Morals is about making right choices. Not necessarily comfortable choices, but good choices.

- As a parent, you want to be there physically and emotionally for your children. What would you need to do, to ensure this happens?

- With your career, where would you like to see your career head, in the next 12 months? What do you need to do, to get you there?

- Quality of life could go something like this; what destinations would you like to travel and what kind of style will you travel in? What kind of car/home would you like to own? What type of person would you like to wake up to, in the morning?

- Vision for your future should include helping those less fortunate. What can you do to improve the world, in some way?

Meditation and visualization are both great motivators and an ideal way to begin and end your day. Journal as you go, so you don’t forget what you are working towards, because it’s easy to become distracted.

A balanced life is about working on the greater issues, not the small stuff. Small stuff being the zit on your face, or worrying about running out of milk today. Let the small stuff go and concentrate on the bigger areas of life.

When you dream bigger, you get bigger. Make your dreams out of this world. Don’t settle for real and achievable. Settle for something greater and continue, until you see it a reality in your life.

Don’t let your happiness rely on outcomes, but let your happiness be derived from doing the best you can today. If you do your best every day, you’ll be ahead of the pack, because most are only doing enough just to get by and they’re miserable while they do it.

If you let your happiness depend on the outcome, it could be a long wait. Be happy, throughout the journey, not just at the end.

If you would like to see less depression, stress and anxiety in your day, prime yourself for happiness. 

When you wake in the morning, visualize how you want your day to flow. Get yourself organised the night before, so you can hit the floor running in the morning. 

Exercise, eat and sleep well and meditate on your future and you will see your future unfolding with beauty, not ashes. 

Don’t work towards your retirement, work towards a greater interest. It’s much more rewarding. Work at it every day, as if your life depends on it, because it does, if you want a long, fruitful and successful life.

Have fun. If you’re not laughing, if you’re angry and upset, you’ve just wasted more minutes of happiness. Enjoy the journey, on the way to the destination. 

I’ve been there; unhappy, depressed and stressed out and thankfully I’ve turned my life around. I know what I’m talking about and I know you too, can turn your life around. Just make a plan and then act on it. It’s that simple.