Tightropes And Teeter-TottersSample

So What Is Balance

Balance is quickly figuring out how hard to lean into the unexpected gust of wind so you don’t blow away. There are ways to brace yourself. Lies, for example, can knock me down and make me want to go back to bed with my head covered for a week. But if I grab on to the truth and hang on, I can stay upright, then move on. The amazing thing about this is that we are frankly better off, wiser, and stronger for next time!

Balance is the result of an intentional reaction to an extreme situation. We are not slaves to our emotions and attitudes. We can actually be large and in charge of both our external responses and our internal responses.

Balance is looking at areas in your life that are not working and finding measurable, specific actions to change them. It’s one thing to decide to make changes, but if we don’t have a plan in place and ways to know if what we are doing is working, then it doesn’t work. Oh, it might help, but a measurable plan makes it so much better! I’m going to help you find easy, practical ways to do that. Believe in yourself. I believe in you!

You’re looking at your life right now and can likely pinpoint areas that you want to change. Maybe you are too emotional. Or perhaps you’re feeling like a failure as a mom, but your finances are doing pretty well and you have found balance in your service to the community. It’s a mix. The areas of a woman’s life that I am going to cover can each send us into orbit at times in our lives and make us desperate to feel secure again. Then when we get one thing pretty manageable, another issue pops up somewhere else.

That’s good. That is where you are supposed to be! Having nine children, I often say that there are always two kids who are causing me to really dig in and figure out how to help them and occasionally a third who is dealing with some less acute problems. But it has never been all nine at once. I consider that a gift from God. And by the way, it is not the same two each time. It varies, as if they are taking turns. Oh sure, a few of them seem to be on the high need list more often than their siblings, but even my hardest kid isn’t always causing the struggle.

It’s the same with these areas of life. Most of you will be struggling with only two to three of these areas at a time. But eventually your life will hit a bump in each of them. You will need to find ways to balance yourself.