Creating Life Balance

Do you feel like you have complete control and perfect balance in your life? Are you achieving the maximum level of physical well-being? Most people answer NO to these questions. But there are simple things to do that can help you feel like you have more control, and start to maintain a level of balance in your life and overall well-being. To start, we need to focus on basic, simple ways to live life to the fullest an increase balance in our lives in healthy and happy ways.

Set the Stage

• Prepare yourself for continuous readjustment of all elements in your life

Knowledge

• Know that finding balance involves all dimensions in your well-being including physical, mental and spiritual aspects
• Knowing this will help you understand what to do to achieve overall physical well-being

Answer

• An ongoing re-evaluation, re-adjustment and re-balance to find that overall well-being
• Choose
• You must be willing to take a chance and make changes
• Living life to the fullest is a choice and how you choose to respond to circumstances
• Prioritize
• Make a list of your top 5 priorities in life and place them in a spot that is visible to you everyday
• Shift your energy into these priorities- you might discover that you spend too much time on things that have lower priority
• Organize 
• Being organized helps to decrease stress and provides a sense of control
• Organize your time and plan ahead for making your day healthier
• Organize you rest, movement and meals
• Put all of your responsibilities on your calendar
• Make a to-do list and check off your completed items- this gives you a sense of accomplishment and positivity
• Train
• Outline a plan for yourself that adds strength, energy, positivity and balance into your days
• Move more throughout the entire day
• Exercise everyday 
• Drink plenty of water
• Eat well and balanced meals
• Pause: take rests, breaks and vacations often
• Sleep for at least 7 hours
• Take a lunch break everyday; get up from what you are doing and take a break
• Take regular vacations (try for at least every three months)
• Reflect at the end of every day
• Restate your "live life to the fullest" objective every day