In today’ society, I wonder how many people give credence to the
importance and benefits of a healthy and balanced lifestyle. In my early 30’s,
I feel like I’ve lost the sense of work-life balance. I feel like I’m moving
yet, I’m not getting anywhere. I’ve confused motion with progress. Heaps of
workload and deadlines keep on coming. I was consumed of how to get the things
in my never-ending to-do list done.Just like most of us are, we make too many excuses
because we believe we’ve got so much on. That sometimes leads to
procrastination or ending up not doing the things that are important for
ourselves because we’re too occupied of the present. This left me in deep
thought how the culture of being busy becomes a trend
nowadays.
We sure have different purpose, goals, and priorities in life. We
even have different frustrations, failures, and stresses in life. Finding
balance may be a bit challenging, maintaining it is quite a different story.
But life is very much of a balancing act.As
Stephen Covey once said, the
key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your
priorities.No matter how complex our lives would be, we must not forget
that it is our responsibility to be well and healthy. Since we all have diverse
mechanisms on how to deal with different aspects of our lives, we just need to
find one that suits our lifestyle. Let us find time to reflect and introspect
which areas are taking too much energy and try to put them into perspective in
a way that would be beneficial to us.
Let us be reminded that
more than anyone else, we have full control over our lives. Not just a balanced
lifestyle increases life expectancy, it also brings us contentment and
happiness.There’s truth in this cliché, “never get too busy making a living
that you forget to make a life.”Imagine how many more years do you have left in
this world. It's pointless to exhaust all your energy for the things you want in
the future when you have no one to spend it with when that time comes. Because
you are too depleted building up your career that you give less or no time with
your loved ones. I don’t want to regret in my later years of having experience
the paradox of life. Enjoy life while you still can and most importantly, live
a life with purpose.
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