MTA Motivational Speaker asks: What Happened to Healthy Balance?
(excerpt from The Progress Challenge: Working and Winning in a World of Change by MTA Motivational Speaker Dean Lindsay. “More than a motivational speaker , Dean Lindsay is The DEAN of Sales and Service!” – Jeff Chernoff, President, Consumers’ Choice Award ® )
I have had innumerable conversations with a broad range of committed professionals about how they, or others they know, feel overworked and overwhelmed (not to mention underappreciated and underpaid). Solid, proactive folks share with me weekly how they have “no time” to get it all done, and have too many demands placed on them.
“There never seems to be enough time to do the things you want to do once you find them.” — Jim Croce
Our ideal “stress-free,” “healthy,” or “right” work-life balance shifts on a daily basis, and certainly over time. The right balance for us tomorrow will probably be different from what it is for us today.
If we want to be working and winning, which includes arriving at that well-worn expression “Healthy Balance,” we must begin to internalize our motives, the reasons for our actions. Truly understanding and digging into why we’re choosing to do the things we’re doing is vital if we’re going to reach true balance.
As humans, we have this dangerous and unavailing habit of always looking at the greener grass on the other side of the fence, unaware that it’s really all about our priorities and how we roll out our choices, thoughts, and actions.
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Working and winning is a unique and personal jigsaw puzzle, and only we can put the pieces together. This puzzle is made up of ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, our career, our interests and hobbies, and, in all of the above, our ideals and aspirations.
I am not saying that comparing ourselves to others is unnatural. I am saying that it is not healthy, productive, or even logical. All we end up doing is comparing our insides with others’ outsides. We compare the way we feel about our situation as it is today (insides) to the way other people seem to live: career, house, car, family, network – (all “outsides”). This is not fair to either party. We do not know what is going on in the other person’s life or head. As my good friend and fellow author Carl Youngberg would say, “Stop measuring yourself with someone else’s yardstick.”
(excerpt from The Progress Challenge: Working and Winning in a World of Change by MTA Motivational Speaker Dean Lindsay. “More than a motivational speaker, Dean Lindsay is The DEAN of Sales and Service!” – Jeff Chernoff, President, Consumers’ Choice Award ® )