This is a common dilemma that most people run into.

Do you go all gung ho and attack one area of your life to really improve it or do you focus on balancing all areas of your life – your spiritual life, physical, financial, mental, emotional, relationship, etc?

Here’s the classic case that’s made for the balance side.

Guy pours a lot of time and energy into getting rich but then people are quick to point out:

“Yeah, but he has bad health and no good relationships so it doesn’t matter how much money he has because he does not have balance in his life.”

Great point to make.

But it’s easy to forget there are people who do make a ton of money AND have balance as well.

While balance may seem to be the “right” answer, we can’t overlook this fact.

If you JUST focus on balance, no area of your life has the chance to greatly improve. You’re just average in all areas.

You can’t generate the “escape velocity” needed to improve one area of your life because you don’t dip into the time, money, and energy from the other areas of your life.

But if you do, then obviously things aren’t balanced and hence, we come to the catch 22 of the issue.

How do we solve this?

Is it possible to be BOTH, “high” and balanced in all areas of our life?

The answer is YES.

BUT, like all things worth doing, takes time.

It won’t happen overnight.

To achieve balance AND high levels in all areas of your life, you need to establish ORDER.

You can't have it all at first.

First decide the order.

This is important because most people think “balance vs. improvement in one area” are on other sides all the time.

Not so.

You have to think in sequential order.

FIRST focus on one area of your life that’s the most important to you that you really want to master, do your research, trim the “fat”, apply it in life, make it efficient, put it into routine, and make it a habit. Once you do all that, it’s like you’ve got that “plate” of life “spinning”. You’ve got it covered.

Then you repeat again to advance each area of your life to a higher level. This is the way to do it.

You can't advance in one area of your life without borrowing time, money and energy from other areas of your life. You need to invest those additional resources to advance, not just “break even”.

So let’s illustrate a practical example of all this.

To make this simple, I’m going to use 5 areas of life in this example. Spiritual, physical, financial, social, and mental.

You might determine their order of importance this way for the following example’s sake:

1. Spiritual 40% 2. Physical 15% 3. Mental 15% 4. Financial 15% 5. Social 15%

So you spend 40% of your time, money, energy, etc., on spiritual aspects of your life, 15% of your time, money, and energy on the physical part, and on and on and on.

But let’s say you really want to improve the physical part of your life, lose weight, drop the fat, get a lean, mean, muscular toned body.

But you don’t want to compromise the spiritual as you value spirituality more than the physical area of your life.

So you take away percentages of time, money, and energy from other areas of your life, for example, the social area of your life and the mental, about 10% each.

So now it looks like:

Spiritual – 40% Physical – 35% Mental 5% Financial 15% Social 5%

With that additional boost of time, money, and energy, you join a gym, do the research, study the exercises, find out the best times for you to exercise, choose a diet, buy the healthy foods, maybe get a personal trainer, and all that.

While you’re doing all that, you’re not as social as you were before and you don’t have as much time to yourself because you’re borrowing all that from those areas to advance the physical area of your life.

BUT notice this allocation isn’t going to be like this for the rest of your life.

You just need to borrow from the other areas of your life for a little while to get the traction going.

Once you figure all the physical stuff out and get it into your routine in life, you can then “return” that time, money, energy back into the areas where you took it from because you don’t need it anymore.

You figured out that area of your life. You know when the best time for you to exercise is, you know exactly what exercise to perform and how long, what to eat, what to avoid, etc., so you don’t need that chunk back to do all that because it’s a no brainer now.

Now obviously you can’t give EXACTLY what you took back.

You’re going to keep a little bit more because you have created something for the long term that will require more from you than it did in the past and that’s ok. You’ll probably give back 6% and keep 4% from each area so at the end of this phase, it looks like this:

Spiritual – 40% Physical – 23% Mental 11% Financial 15% Social 11%

A lot of people who lift weights will see this makes perfect sense. The more time you spend in the gym, the less time you have compared to before to socialize but they’re OK with that. They actually prefer it that way. And it’s not THAT much time that’s taken away either.

Now another person may not value their physical part of their life as much as their social.

The social comes in first, then physical and if that’s the case, then just look back at the previous example and switch physical with social and the same thing happens.

So you keep on doing this for the rest of the areas of your life, you’ll determine a hierarchy of the areas of your life in the order in which you deem them important, and the first will obviously take the biggest chunk of your time, energy, and money and your second next most important area of your life will take the second biggest chunk and on and on and on.

If you REALLY think about it, there’s no such thing as PERFECTLY balanced in all areas of your life.

I’m talking about taking all the above areas and having it as 20% across the board.

Nobody is like that, yet that’s what people want to pursue.

It’s not like that.

There will ALWAYS be a hierarchy.

Your job is to establish that hierarchy FIRST.

Then based on that hierarchy, know which areas of your life you can draw from to improve the area you want to improve and give that time, energy, and money back once you figure out how to get to the next level of the area you’re currently focusing on.

Then repeat the process as you go down the list.

What about the last area of your life you say?

How can you borrow when there’s nothing “beneath” that area?

Well, you borrow a certain amount from the other areas to the point where the hierarchy is STILL intact, in the sense that each area from the top as you go down, STILL has a higher percentage than the area right beneath it.

Then, when you advance, return it and the cycle starts again.

Each person has to determine what their order is and then work from that using the example outlined here and by doing so, will greatly improve one area of their life at a time, and over time, become balanced in their own unique way.

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