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March Dates to Remember

• Do you look forward to your work day?
• Do you have an interesting and exciting life away from work?
• Do you put a priority on family time?
• Do you spend time with friends each week?
• Do you have fun?

If you could not answer yes to these questions, then perhaps some improvement is needed.

To achieve balance involves recognizing where you need to spend your time to meet your responsibilities. You should consider the four major categories of your life that need to be kept in balance:

• Family and relationships
• Financial and work
• Physical and health
• Spiritual

Emphasis on all of these areas is necessary to have a fully satisfying life.

The ability to balance and combine these areas will contribute greatly to the quality of life you enjoy. Too much emphasis on either one can affect the others adversely. Learning to live in balance, allowing time for both work and a rewarding personal life can bring synergy, enthusiasm and creativity into your life.

Of course, your first thought is “not enough time” to fit everything in and you start rationalizing as to why something has to be dropped or neglected. To have real balance in your life, you need to plan and practice.

Consider drawing up a 30-day plan for each of the areas of your life. Decide how much time you can realistically dedicate to each area and then write down what activity you will do in that time block.

Your plan could be as simple as making sure that you do one thing in each area everyday. It does not need to be something big to be important. But a plan is only as good as your follow-through. So do it! Consider this your 30-day trial at life balancing.

And remember. It has been widely proven that financially and emotionally stable individuals have more harmonious relationships and have achieved a good balance. Make this your New Year’s goal.

(Heathcote, a REALTOR® with Coldwell Banker HP&W Builder Services, is an RRAR member.)

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