Life Balance and Happiness at Least As Important as Income Goals

In today's hectic and competitive environment, it's increasingly difficult to achieve life balance and happiness. 67% of business owners surveyed, believe that issues to do with economic and social justice, public services, poverty, work-life balance and happiness are the most important in measuring a country's performance. This means that life balance and happiness are at least as important as breaking arbitrary revenue goals to the majority of business owners.

Happiness doesn’t just hang out there in the ether, waiting to be picked up like an email. Happiness is part of the fabric of our lives. The search for happiness is further complicated because the factors which most affect our personal well-being are commonly ignored or given very low priority in work and training, and in the media too. In schools also, life balance and personal happiness are largely ignored, and rarely explored or recommended as worth pursuing. Consequently throughout our lives, we don't find it easy to consider properly the issues which actually determine our own personal life balance and happiness.

One of the first items to impact both balance and happiness is your health. Sleep, nutrition, and exercise are vital in today’s world. Improving an individual's health in each of these categories, wellness practitioners believe, can lead to improved overall life balance and happiness. These include holistic practitioners who help people reach their health goals through nutrition, exercise, spiritual healing, counseling, and getting enough sleep. If you are not in the pink of health or not feeling very smooth in things that you do, you should MAKE AN EFFORT to improve the situation. Be sure to take vitamins given the dropping nutritional values of our natural food supplies.

Having unfinished business and clutter in our lives can cause us confusion, making it difficult to think clearly at times. Having a sense of humor in is also a contributor to personal and business success and anxiety reduction. It is important to live your personal and business life around your values as well. If you pay attention to these factors, you will find that: You cope with additional business demands with ease – knowing that you are still delivering excellence to your customers, you are seen as a great boss to work for and you feel great within yourself as a result. You enjoy more quality time with your partner and or family in a way that leaves you feeling happier, relaxed and with the peace of mind that you’re are living a life with no regrets.

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The better you are at knowing yourself, understanding what positively motivates and inspires you, and creating a balance for yourself between your career/work life and family/home life, the easier it will be for you to predict that you will live a happy life. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The question is, what are you doing to insure that you are choosing a life of happiness.

Remember the first step to achieving life balance and happiness from the inside out is healthy diet plans and fitness routines. When your own health, life balance and happiness improve, you can act as a role model for your clients, and inspire them through your own experience. Get to know your real self. Knowing yourself is vital both to understand what factors most affect your life balance and happiness, and also for finding a satisfying purpose in life. This ensures you will achieve your objectives and gain your ideal triangle of life balance and happiness that you seek.

Cheryl Matthynssens
The Balance Guide