When things are going your way, people will tell you to keep things in perspective – and that is fair enough. Particularly when you are starting out, they may see your pursuit of your new life as being an all-encompassing quest and tell you that it is all about finding balance and living a balanced lifestyle.
Now remember, balance is an idea. As they might say in Ireland, it is a grand idea. Only it is not a very practical one. If you want to live your best life, balance will rarely exist. For it is a very idealistic concept and not at all realistic.
Like the accomplishment of all extraordinary results, what you are trying to achieve will often mean having to give it your all-in pursuit of having it all. You may have to give all your time to achieve what now matters most to you to see it become a reality. This being the case, a balanced lifestyle may be impossible as you dedicate yourself to living the life you were born to live.
If you are told you are out of balance or you feel this might be the case for you, it usually means that other things that matter are not getting attention. The fact is that when you truly do what is most important to you, some things won’t get done or receive attention. This is a necessary trade-off for the achievement of extraordinary results, just like the achievement of the life you truly want to be living, which will often require your total focus and energy on that and that alone.
There will also be a lot of fear, both real and perceived, as you take the steps to bring your life forward. Like we have already seen, the fear never goes away fully. Likewise, this can be a time of big changes. And with change, what people fear most of all is loss. This could be the loss of the old life they had been living and all the security and safety that went with that.
As you move from the life you are living to the life you want to live, there may well be a sense of loss for all that you are now leaving behind. When dealing with and overcoming this sense of loss, our storytellers were first of all grateful for the life they had lived. They acknowledged what they were losing and leaving behind as they let go of their old life. They accepted that they were going through this to experience the better life that lay ahead. As they took steps to move forward, they stayed focused on the life they wanted to live, knowing that this is a great way to deal with fear.
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