Life Balance & Mindful Mediatation
Thinking About It, Developing and Maintaining
What is Life Balance?
Life balance is a concept including proper prioritizing between all dimensions in life including "work" (career/school and ambition) and "lifestyle" (health, pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual development/meditation). This is related to the idea of lifestyle choice and how to manage stress.
Your best individual work-life balance will vary over time, often on a daily basis. The right balance for you today will probably be different for you tomorrow. The right balance for you when you are single will be different when/if you marry, or if you have children; when you start a new career versus when you are nearing retirement and is all based in the choices you make througout life.
Work-Life Balance does not mean an equal balance. Trying to schedule an equal number of hours for each of your various work and personal activities is usually unrewarding and unrealistic. Life is and should be more fluid than that.
There is no perfect, one-size fits all, balance you should be striving for. The best work-life balance is different for each of us because we all have different priorities and different lives. However, at the core of an effective work-life balance definition are two key everyday concepts that are relevant to each of us. They are daily Achievement and Enjoyment, ideas almost deceptive in their simplicity.
Dimensions of Balanced Wellness
Life balance is a concept including proper prioritizing between all dimensions in life including "work" (career/school and ambition) and "lifestyle" (health, pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual development/meditation). This is related to the idea of lifestyle choice and how to manage stress.
Your best individual work-life balance will vary over time, often on a daily basis. The right balance for you today will probably be different for you tomorrow. The right balance for you when you are single will be different when/if you marry, or if you have children; when you start a new career versus when you are nearing retirement and is all based in the choices you make througout life.
Work-Life Balance does not mean an equal balance. Trying to schedule an equal number of hours for each of your various work and personal activities is usually unrewarding and unrealistic. Life is and should be more fluid than that.
There is no perfect, one-size fits all, balance you should be striving for. The best work-life balance is different for each of us because we all have different priorities and different lives. However, at the core of an effective work-life balance definition are two key everyday concepts that are relevant to each of us. They are daily Achievement and Enjoyment, ideas almost deceptive in their simplicity.
Dimensions of Balanced Wellness
- Professional/Occupational - School/Work, fulfillment of work, also financial.
- Intellectual/Mental - lifelong learning, learning styles, brain growth, intellectual curiosity/inquiry, academic grit.
- Physical - Nutrition, exercise/activity, energy, quality of life
- Emotional - how you experience your world; feelings, emotions, thoughts, behaviors, how to cope with the ups & downs and challenges presented by life.
- Social - how you present youreself (behaviors) within your world, finding, creating, maintaining mutally respectful relationships
- Spiritual - Your perception of finding meaning & purpose in life, values and beliefs, being open-minded to others beliefs, may relate to religion for some
- Environment - Personal environment. ie: how you keep your room, school supplies, family structure, etc.
