4 Questions For Perspective and Balance

3 Quick Steps to Gaining Personal Perspective and Balance

1)    Inventory what you have, need or want.

2)    Dissect the components of what you have, need and want.

3)    Prioritize what’s important so you understand what you really have, need and want.

This process of inventorying and prioritizing doesn’t require hours of time on a regular basis.

At any given moment, you have the ability to stop and take stock. At any given moment, you can change what you’re doing and shift your priorities. These don’t have to be seismic shifts, but smaller ones in the moment that contribute to balancing the scales over time.

Conscious Choices

Much of our lives are spent in unconscious mode. Our fast-thinking, instinctive brain puts us on autopilot as often as possible to conserve energy.

If you’ve gotten into the habit of prioritizing work over health or family, it’s easy to remain in this mode – so much so that you may not even realize you have options. Once you miss one dinner at home with the family or skip a week of exercise, your brain begins to make the adjustment to lower these priorities, which makes it easier to not even notice they’re missing.

This unconscious pattern applies to whether you respond to the notifications on your phone, work late for extra hours, play too many video games or anything else that’s become habituated. Once you stop thinking about why you’re doing them, you just keep doing them.

Perspective and Balance and 24/7 Connectivity

Finding balance can include working from home on Saturday afternoon so you can spend Monday sneaking off with your child or spouse for a picnic in the park.

Balance doesn’t mean working 9 to 5 and clocking out. It doesn’t mean never checking your phone or email notifications. It means knowing when to work and when not to work, when to shut down and when to turn back on, and what you’re doing and why.

Get Started Today

Get into the habit of regularly asking yourself:

• What am I doing and why?
• What can wait and for how long?
• Who am I with and why?
• What’s important right now and why?
• Considering these questions can occupy only a minute of your time, giving you the opportunity to stop and change your perspective. Over time, you’ll habituate a new pattern that involves stopping and asking yourself what’s important and being mindful of the moment you’re in. By doing so, you can start changing your perspective and regain your ability to make conscious choices about your life.

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