How do you maintain your balance? No, I don’t mean physical balance (though that can be challenging too.) I’m talking about life balance. I’m counting down to getting mine back.
It’s ironic really. I used to have a decent balance in life, but I think part of that was having different priorities. As my priorities have 
shifted, I’ve also lost energy and had other worsening symptoms, and that’s made it harder to keep the balance. I know what you’re thinking, but actually, the new priorities should make it easier to keep my balance. I now want to spend less time and energy at a job. I want to focus more on friends, family, and personal growth. I want to stop caring about material objects and use that money to save for the future and enjoy the present.
In just a few more days I’ll be on a medical leave of absence from my job. My top priority is to improve my health. I’m going to rest, exercise, improve my diet, etc. But I’m also going to get my life in order, because I know that I won’t be able to maintain my physical health if everything else is out of balance. My simple goal is to do as many of the items on my to do list as I can before I go back to work in a few months. And I want to cross out a lot of the items that I won’t be able to do. I want to shrink that list and get my balance back.
And that brings me back to the original question: how will I maintain that balance?
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