Rebalance

Balance is a word that gets tossed around quite frequently. We all know what it means, but I think we take it for granted. Balance is something that we want to have, but I think it is something that we do. If you balance your routine or your workload you are assessing and prioritizing things. If you have balance you have assessed and prioritized, but without action, you don’t have anything.

It is this action that leads us to success in all areas. When it comes to health, balance is something we need to do in order to achieve our goals. Without balance, health is either too extreme and leads to injury or burnout or health is not part of our routine and leads to problems. The latter is clearly more common in our society.

Because action is the one thing that we have control over in our lives, it becomes the most important factor in any area. After the action itself, what that action is used for becomes the most important factor. The areas in which we place the most action are the areas in which we see the most success.

Balance is an area that gets discussed in every aspect of life, so clearly it holds some importance. In health, the importance of balance is nothing to short of crucial. As we have already discussed, on the one end of the spectrum we see problems and on the other end of the spectrum we see different but equally difficult problems to deal with.

When it comes to health, achieving balance means finding a way to get the things you want into your life and leaving out the things that you don’t want. Again, there is an extreme at both ends that would lead to problems. If you only focus on exercise and nothing else, you will have trouble keeping a job and even put your physical health in jeopardy. If you don’t focus on exercise at all, you will likely have trouble with energy, weight and other health issues that come along with it. These problems are clear-cut, but they are problems none the less. If they are not addressed, they will not go away.

When problems come up in life, we have to find solutions. In most cases, when problems arise, a single solution won’t solve the problem. In fact, rarely does one solution completely solve a problem. In life and especially in health, problems change and more solutions need to be realized.

The reason balance is such an action is that it is something we need to do dynamically. Balance does not simply occur. Even once we have taken action to achieve balance, things can quickly change and require a new action to restore balance. This is where we take our next step.

Balance is good and takes a lot of attention in order to be done well. The next step is re-balancing. Balance is an action that gets you a result for a static moment in your routine. That static moment comes and goes and now we need to balance again.

This rebalance is the difference between a quick fix and a long-term change.
Anyone can find balance and change their routine for a day or a week. But what happens when things change and they need to come up with new solutions? If they are not prepared to rebalance, they simply fall off and go back to the imbalance they had before.

If they are prepared to rebalance, they can come up with a new solution to the new problem. When you do this, you are getting back to balance and everything works again. If you don’t do it, you will continue to deal with the problem and be out of balance until you figure out how you can do it.

Priorities are not a life-long step. What do I mean by that? I mean that priorities need to be addressed regularly. They are not something that you can just set once and be done with it. Priorities, while affecting your entire life, are something that need to be addressed more frequently.

Rebalancing is nothing more than resetting your priorities based on the situation you are in. On Monday, you are starting the week out and have the whole thing in front of you. The problems that come up are different than the problems that may arise on Friday. For this reason, the weekly priorities are different from one day to the next.

You have to decide what your goals are each and every day to make sure that they put you in balance. Even if they are the same from one day to the next, addressing, setting and taking action are required to make sure that they are achieved. If not, the problems that arise will be too much to overcome.

No problem should be too much to overcome. The only problem that you cannot overcome is the problem that you refuse to find a solution for. Balancing is finding a solution to a problem or series of problems. Without balancing you cannot get started on a healthy routine. Rebalancing is finding solutions to more problems that come up as you go. Without rebalancing you cannot live healthy over the long-term.