Living in Balance

We hear a lot about a balanced lifestyle, and for good reason. It's important to have balance in your life. That might mean different things to different people, we are not one size fits all by any definition! Living in a balanced way has been shown to increase longevity, has beneficial effects on mental health and happiness in general and is beneficial to our physical health as well.

Knowing that, I wonder why everyone doesn't strive for balance. I wonder if people understand what a balanced lifestyle means.
Consider the varying aspects of your life: physical, emotional, spiritual, financial, social and mental are good places to start. Are you taking care of one aspect at the expense of another? Because we are so driven by our finances, for example, we might work more than we perhaps should at the expense of family or social connections that are meaningful. Or maybe the opposite is true; maybe you're caught up in pleasures of life and have no money to pay the bills. Wherever you land, having balance in these areas is important and we often lose sight of that.

This wheel is just one example of such exercises where you place a dot at the area in the 'pie slice' where you feel you land on a scale where the inner circle is no satisfaction or fulfillment and the outer edge would be completely satisfied or fulfilled. When you connect the dots, you see the areas that dip low for you. These are the areas where you need to put a little more time to bring about that sense of fulfillment in your life.

What's missing in your life? What would bring about that sense of balance, of fulfillment and of overall health for you?