Five Strategies For A More Balanced Life

Your time is limited. Don’t waste it trying to do everything, otherwise you will completely exhaust your mental, physical and emotional resources and end up under constant stress. Learning to walk through life in a balanced way is fundamental to achieving your goals and being the person you want to be.

One of the first steps to do this is learning to say “no” when someone asks you to make an appointment that takes up your time and messes up your schedule. It may seem difficult, but knowing how to say “no” will give you more balance. In fact, it’s often the commitments we feel obligated to make that cause us the most stress.

The following strategies will help you find balance, clear your schedule, relieve daily stress, and take control of your life.

Get rid of the disorder that surrounds you

A balanced life is an ordered life. Start by organizing your environment. Remove anything that is unnecessary and that just adds extra work. It’s much easier to keep a room clean and tidy if it’s only stocked with what you need.

Organizing your environment, getting rid of the superfluous and ensuring simplicity in your decoration in the sense that everything is functional will serve as a metaphor. The freedom you will feel by organizing your environment and keeping it simple is the same as the freedom you will feel when you apply the same principles to your life.

Don’t make the excuse that no one is helping you, that no one around you cares about your surroundings and that you are tired of always having to do everything alone. Be an example and roll up your sleeves to make it easier for everyone to maintain order, inside and out.

delegate

Both in your personal and professional life, it is extremely difficult to maintain control over everything. Literally always wanting to control and organize everything leads to stress and anxiety, especially when others realize that you do take all the responsibility.

Have faith in the people around you and delegate some of the responsibilities to them. Tell them what you want and what you expect from them, but give them the freedom to do it as they see fit. This way, they will mind doing it less. Put your perfectionism aside, be flexible and appreciate the work others do.

It doesn’t always have to be perfect, as long as it’s done

Apply the same rules to yourself. Be flexible and strive to do things the best you can, but put your perfectionism aside. Try to always do your best, but don’t insist on doing things just a little bit better when the way they’re done is actually good enough. You can always do better next time.

If you can take a shortcut, take this one. Taking longer or complicating life does not improve execution if the results are the same. Set your priorities and spend most of your time on them, but always look for a way to make things as easy as possible.

Live in the present, think of the future

Your daily life is happening today and you have to plan it to make the most of it. When you roll up your sleeves, don’t forget that tomorrow is another day, just as there is another day the day after tomorrow and the day after that. Proper planning of your daily life, striving for personal balance, is a habit that brings benefits in the short, medium and long term.

It’s not about making a great plan. It’s a matter of planning for each day, considering future goals and the psychological, emotional and physical consequences of a full commitment. Every decision you make today will affect what tomorrow looks like.