Empower Newsletter – March 2015
Welcome to the March 2015 edition of the Empower Newsletter. This month the focus is on how important living a well-balanced life is and how you can achieve it.
Do you know?
‘how to achieve balance’
Have you ever focused on something you want to achieve, you make progress, but along the way you lose focus in another area of your life? It may be a strong focus in your career when you neglect your health and/or your social life; it could be a new relationship where you forget your friends or lose track of the drive in your career; or your finances may be suffering because you’d rather go shopping and/or be social.
One of the most important aspects of life is balance. When your main focus comes apart at the seams for even one day, it may leave you feeling like your whole life is in turmoil. It is emphasised tenfold because there is nothing else going on in your life.
I believe having balance in all areas of our life is a good place to start in our quest to be happier and to feeling more content. Having balance is emphasised even more when one area isn’t going as well as you would like there are plenty more areas that are.
Another reason our focus could be in one area over another may be so we don’t have to think about the other area. This is because we tend to avoid the parts of our life that seem more painful to get them how we want them. Like starting a healthy eating regime! The thought of not being able to eat what we want, having to think about what to cook, doing up a shopping list, going shopping, and then actually preparing the meal could create a whole lot of pain.
So instead of letting the pain associated with not getting a certain area of your life in balance, associate pain to not getting it.
In other words, let us control pain and pleasure instead of it controlling us.
An effective way to associate pain to not getting what you want is to think about what will be happening in your life after 1 year if nothing changes. Think about what you will be doing, feeling, thinking, seeing, hearing and also things you will not be doing. Now take yourself 3, 5 and 10 years into the future and ask yourself the same questions. Continue asking yourself these questions until you have created enough pain around not doing it.
Once you have created enough pain around not having what you want, it will drive you toward it. After all, ‘we do more to avoid pain that we will do to feel pleasure’.
Here’s to gathering enough pain to propel you toward a more balanced life!
Definition
Well-balanced
1. Evenly balanced, pro-portioned, or regulated: a well-balanced diet.
2. Mentally or emotionally stable; well-adjusted.
3. Engaging in varied activities or having varied interests.
Something to Ponder
“Looking back at the times where I allowed my work to create stress and frustration in my life I now realize what I thought was important really was not. I am not saying you should not take your work seriously, what I am saying is that we need to realize that life is all about balance.”
~ Catherine Pulsifer ~
Quotes of the Month
“In all aspects of our lives balance is key. Doing one thing too much can cause upset, like the old saying goes, everything in moderation is the secret!”
~ Catherine Pulsifer ~
“Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.”
~ Robert Fulgham ~
Affirmation Corner
‘Every area of my life is in perfect balance.’
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March 1, 2015 1:42 pm
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