I know that most days I am not sure what I have accomplished. Between working, dinners, laundry, cleaning, dishes, running kids to and from school and activities by the end of the day I feel like the accomplishment was making it through it.
The days fly by and before I know it, the weekend has arrived. Weekends are full of grocery runs, errands that never got done during the week and getting set up for the next week. Two full days of catching up from the week behind and setting up for the week a head.
When week after week of this pile up, I start thinking to myself....I need to get a life!
Than I start thinking about what living means? Is the laundry as important as time away with friends?
Balance in life is one of those things you always have to be working at. Like juggling balls in the air you always have to be looking and aware of where everything is.
This awareness clues you in to when things are out of balance. When you know things just don't "feel" right, when you are always tired, don't have the energy to go out and be social with people, when everything else is more important than you.
Having balance in life actually energizes you!
Don't make social things and hobbies one more box to check in your life.
1. Do you have a social outlet that you visit regularly?
2. Do you have a hobby you enjoy?
3. Do you take time for yourself?
4. Do you always have something planned to look forward to?
If the answers above are mostly "no" you need to get a life.
Life is not only something given to us but something that needs to be created and enjoyed. This is an on going process that needs to be evaluated and reworked. It is essential, not only for continued improvement in the quality of your life but for your overall well being and the well being of your family.
Jori Sparry is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Her expertise includes working with traumatic life events, post traumatic stress disorder, marital and family issues, blended family issues, divorce, infertility, families with multiples, depression, anxiety, and with military service members and their families.
