Balancing acts

Exercise is a balancing act.

It’s possible to exercise too much and too little.

Work is like that too. Workaholics often struggle to work less. While idle slackers tend to lack the will to want to work much at all.

And your social quota? That requires balance too.

Feeling lonely is a sign that you’re depleted—that you need more (or more diverse) social connection to feel fulfilled. On the other hand, if you’re feeling just the opposite—if you’re overwhelmed by interaction—it may be a sign that you need some alone time.

Balancing acts are hard, precisely because they require balance. It takes noticing when you need less or more of something, and then doing something about it.

When we go kaput and run of steam, or worse, corrupt internally, it’s often a sign that we’ve been leaning on one end of a scale for far too long.

Getting back to a healthy state is possible only when we begin to lean back the other way—changing our actions and our habits, in support of finding and maintaining our balance.