Adjust Your Sails
Balance. It's one of the goals many people have in life--to achieve balance. Work, play, health, fun. Like holding a pencil on your finger, we create financial budgets and time pie charts trying to find the sweet spot necessary to live the happiest, most fulfilling life possible. How much self-care is necessary to prevent us from falling into despair's murky depths? What touch points of reality prevent me from soaring too close to the sun and getting burned? Except that achieving perfect balance is a myth. Balance is not a fixed destination that we arrive at, rather, it is a constant shifting and adjusting, taking multiple factors into consideration as we navigate the journey of life. Balance is much more similar to the concept of adjusting the sails of a sailboat. A sailboat utilizes fabric strung on a pole to capture the wind to propel through the water with a board for stability, and a second board for directional control. All in all, control on a sailboat is pretty limite
