How do you find a healthy balance?

Life is a constant work-in-progress. If you stick to the scale metaphor, each of the balance pans tilts up and down from the horizontal. One just does one’s best to keep them even.

experience.

Trial and error.

it’s all about progress, not perfection. You can only do your best. As my tattoo says “breathe through balance”. Life is the constant sea of change, and you just roll with it.

I don’t often find it at all. I tend to do it all the way, or not at all. Not at all being the more frequent outcome, sadly.

What makes me feel right, not what others want or expect of me.

what i want to do and what i know i shouldn’t do.

I’m a Libra so it’s what I aim for but I know it’s terrifically difficult to acheive!

Binge, repent, repeat.

@Shrubbery, why is balance important to you? It’s not to me, so I don’t really think about it.

By the way, you win the prize for the most questions within a question that I’ve ever seen!

I don’t.

But seriously, it helps to kind of prioritize things in your life: family, work, creative outlets, fun, etc. Then try to move towards that balance. And don’t beat yourself up later on for the choices you made. You made them. You’re in a new place, now.

Well, i would think if what you’re doing bothers you, then it is not balanced for you….i think. So i suppose it would be trial and error, until you find that you are content.
I’m no expert here since my work/play (free time) balance is way out! (too little of the latter of course.. sniff)

When you figure it out, please let me know..I am faced with the same problem.

Life balance is one of those difficult life mysteries. For me it’s about prioritising. There are only so many hours in a day and you only have so much energy…. plus, your own happiness/well being is also important.

Recently, I found that my home life, space and personal time were being comprimised due to work obligations, social events and other responsibilities. I weighed up where I could shave some of my current time consuming life complications and ended up realising that I could financially afford to reduce my hours at work to enable me more time for home.

This has worked out brilliantly and definitely feel more balanced with time. Chores get done and I feel far less stressed. If for some people, they have a lot of time but not as much money as they would like, then potentially working more would assist.

The other thing is what might be too much for one might not be enough for another. So balance is subjective

I am the Mother of a mid functioning Autistic young Man. Some Autistic people never learn to speak. I know my Son was not given all the help he should have been. He was in New York Child Learning Institute for Years . These immoral Psychologist help the wealthiest families most. He has been in a great school for eight Years . I have done my best despite that I live in NYC were incompetent Teachers get paid to abuse Autistic people.
I will never give up . I appreciate all that I have . I am angered when others do not.

It seems I can only ever manage one extreme or the other, which is frustrating. >=| I can go round in the same circles for years and I just don’t know how to fix that…