10 Tips To Living A Balanced Life

Life Balance is key to your overall effectiveness and happiness.

Neglecting one dimension of your life can cause imbalance and induce stress. Bringing our spiritual, emotional, mental, physical and relational zones in "sync" is vital to live a balanced life. One minute you may feel you've got it all together, and the next something happens that switched you off balance.

How can you tell when your life is unbalanced? What are the "out-of- balance symptoms to look out for? Here are some questions to ask yourself:

Do you:

- Have difficulty sleeping well or even sleeping at all?

- Barely have any social friends or buddies you can hang out with?

- Have little or no time to nurture important relationships in your life?

- Have frequent migraines or pain in the neck or other parts of the body? - Barely have time to take breaks?

- Hardly bother about what you eat or when you eat?

- find yourself lonely most of the time and feeling depressed?

Here are 10 Tips To Living A Balanced Life

1. Be Clear about your purpose in life and walk in it daily.

2. Take care of your self and nurture the body, soul, and spirit God has given you.

3. Recognise your out-of-balance signals promptly and adjust accordingly.

4. Begin each day with gratitude and an optimistic perspective. Give it your best shot. Have a sense of humour.

5. Take things lightly. The unexpected may happen. When it does, take a deep breath and choose your response. Choose your battles carefully. That thing you're all wound up about, will it matter in a month's time?

6. Invest in others and build a network of inspiring people who can support, encourage, help and uplift you when you need them.

7. Let your decisions in life be based on what matters most to you, not on what other people want or say or do. In the end, we only regret the actions we did not take when we knew we should have.

8. Take regular breaks- to reflect, unplug, detach, and refresh. You cannot give what you do not have. so fill yourself up to be able to give more.

9. Get more organised and dwell more in the "not urgent but important" quadrant (Stephen Covey Time Management grid). Being in the Rush Hour mode 24/7 has consequences on our life balance. Everything can''t be urgent. Everything can't be important now. Leverage technology, people, resources around you to help you live a balanced life.

10. Above all, understand the season of life you are in and manage your expectations within that season. Seasons come and go but every season has its positives and opportunities. Don't beat yourself up that you cannot attend every business dinner event when you know you've got three pre-schoolers who need your attention in the evenings. As a single woman, don't make yourself small just because all your friends are married and seem to be having a great time. As a new entrepreneur, don't beat yourself up if you cannot afford expensive vacations yet like many other entrepreneurs in your network. You don't know how they started.

Life balance requires maximising the season of life you're in right now and making the most of it - living without regrets and being the authentic YOU. As someone said "Be You, everyone else is taken"

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Mofoluwaso Ilevbare (fondly called Fofo) is an HR Thought leader, Career Influencer & Worklife Balance Coach, a Women-in-the-Boardroom Advocate, with a healthy appetite for chocolate cake. When she's not working in her 9-5, she spends her time writing, mentoring, speaking, and running her NGO empowering women and girls in Africa. Fofo is reachable at fofo@mofoluwaso.com. 

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