How to live a balanced life?Written by ajay pats
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There is an inverse relationship between urgent and important. What is important is generally not urgent. Things only become urgent because we have neglected to do important things. For many of us, our health is not an urgent issue - until we neglect it and it becomes urgent. Most of us take our mental alertness for granted. But if we don't do important work of developing our mind, over time it will not stay sharp. On surface, spiritual alertness may not seem to be a priority in our lives. However, if we fail to reflect and meditate, over time our connection to our spirit will become weak. The key is to spend bulk of our time on things that are important in our lives, and to eliminate that which is unimportant. Having clarity of purpose can help in determining what is important and what is not. If you find that you cannot eliminate unimportant things in your life, then delegate or procrastinate these activities. This leaves you free to focus on executing around a tight set of priorities. To find balance, remember that less is more. There is a Sufi story of a soldier who has been hit with an arrow. As he lies dying, instead of focusing on removing arrow, he asks questions such as how big is arrow and who was archer. While doing so, he dies. The moral of story is to not spend time on insignificant stuff and 'kill' your limited energy. I have found that spending twenty minutes each day doing exercise, twenty minutes reading, and twenty minutes meditating helps me achieve balance. I call this hour of power. Starting your day with an hour of power gives you a head start. Where can I find this hour, you ask? Try going to sleep an hour earlier at night. Another way of finding balance is to combine two important activities. We multitask in so many other areas of our lives, so why not in areas that are important? Try listening to educational CDs while driving or running on a treadmill. Or spend twenty minutes a day walking with your spouse or child or a colleague. That way, you make sure you are spending time with people in your life who are important, but are still getting your exercise. By scheduling weekly important items such as family activities, exercise, reading or praying time, you can ensure that you always include them in your busy week. Finally, true balance comes from being integrated. When we are able to fuse our life in such a way that everything we do is grounded on principles that are important to us, we are living with integrity. If we integrate way we walk, talk, eat, and run our business, we will feel centered and balanced. Having life balance brings meaning, fulfillment and happiness to our lives. Despite constant changes in our environment, it is possible to find life balance. Most often, this is achieved by being able to spend enough quantity and quality of time in areas that are important to you -- as defined by you, not by someone else. Focus your time on important stuff of life and strive to live an integrated life.y.
Ajay Pats is professional manager working as sales manager.He runs inspirational ezine"Rediscover true colors of life" available at http://www.topica.com/lists/venturemall and community for home based business entrepreneurs available at http://groups.msn.com/venturecon.
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Knowledge is ... essential to succeed toward anything that you aspire to achieve. Specialized "know-how" helps you to make choices that brings success to YOU. Specialized knowledge can be learned from reading, studying, trial-and-error, more education and even life experiences. You decide what kind of and amount of knowledge that is needed for you to be able to accomplish your goal. Let's say that you want to have a garage sale. Do you know how to advertise your Sale? Do you know if you must register your sale with a local authority? Do you know how to price your goods? Get all of knowledge that you need. You might look for a book onnHOW TO HAVE A GARAGE SALE. You might make a phone call to local authorities to see what your legal requirements might be. Phone local newspaper about how to advertise your garage sale. Select best day to hold your sale. Gather all of knowledge that you need to host a successful garage sale. The gathering of information is actually a part of step-by-step process in goal achieving process. Persistence is ... the constant effort that you put out to continue until you achieve your goal. Set time tables in your goals, so that you work to achieve smaller goals along way. As you achieve smaller goals, this helps to build your self-confidence. Also helping you to see light at end of tunnel, as you get closer to achieving your ultimate goal. Self-confidence is ... developed as you achieve each small step towards your final goal. The more self-confident that you become, better that you feel about yourself and in achieving your GOAL. When you decided that you wanted to learn HOW to surf Internet, you had a DESIRE to learn how to get onto World Wide Web. You set a GOAL for yourself to be surfing within a few hours. Either someone taught you, or you followed a manual or you just jumped onto computer keyboard and started pounding on keys. Some how, you made it onto Internet. You acquired KNOWLEDGE to surf Internet. Aren't you glad you did? Because of your DESIRE, you sought KNOWLEDGE to learn how to get onto Internet. You applied your KNOWLEDGE and PERSISTED until you were surfing Net on your own. It may not seem like a lot of knowledge, but aren't you more CONFIDENT and comfortable about using a computer? You gained self-confidence as success came to YOU! You achieved your GOAL. You are a successful person, you just were not aware of it. Now, that you know that you can achieve success, it is time to repeatedly apply 5 steps to success in your personal and business life. Now Be More Successful!
Dustin Rhodes "the Internet Cowboy" has authored several Internet Marketing ebooks, his articles have been published in numerous newsletters and magazines; and publishes the weekly business ezine: Intelligent eMarketing Digest. For online marketing and promotion information visit: http://www.IntelligenteMarketing.com
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