Life in Balance

Balance. It's what we all want but don't always know how to get. One of the things I love about NMVT is the morning Wake Up to Success calls. This morning, Jason Spurlock, the creator of the madness as he calls himself, CEO and former DO intern, shared this with us about keeping life in balance.

My personal note: I've been big on the whole Body/Mind/Spirit thing for many, many years. But I've neglected the fourth quadrant which has to be kept in equal balance, and that's the financial end of things. I'm just waking up to that at 57. There are four quarters to a whole. Four elements. Four seasons to the year. Four cardinal directions. Four is + (the crossroads of balance). Body/Mind/Spirit/Finances.


Here's Jason's recipe and my elaboration for keeping every day in balance. My elaborations are in brackets.

1. Choose to live at the corner of Art & Commerce. To have the greatest success, you have to have a personal form of creativity and self-expression.

2. Before you get out of bed in the morning -- take a few minutes to create your day. That doesn't mean going through checklists of what you have to do. Plan your strategy for being highly creative and productive today.

3. As soon as you get up, before you have a cup of coffee, before you do anything else, drink a liter of water. Staying hydrated keeps the mind clear and the systems working.

4. Take a high potency B-vitamin complex. B vitamins are mood elevators, they increase your digestion, they help metabolize ATP which is your energy engine.

5. Meditate, Pray, do Yoga, whatever it takes for you to communicate with Source. Communicating with Source is communicating with yourself -- creating a free flow of mental, emotional, and psychological energy. Get out of bed to do this -- [create sacred space for yourself] -- a place apart whether it be on your knees beside your bed, in your closet, cross-legged on the bathroom floor, [outside in nature, in front of a personal altar], wherever.

6.  Exercise. Move your body. Regular exercise will lift depression, cause your body to function better, [lower your blood sugar, lower your blood pressure], give you energy. [Everyone has the same 24 hours in a day. Find the time. If you are completely sedentary now, even 20 minutes of movement will improve things. Choose the kind of exercise that makes you happy and motivated -- walk, ride a bicycle, go to the gym, run, jog. If you currently have mobility issues, start slowly, but start now. Get little one and a half pound weights and do arm exercises for 10 minutes -- you would be surprised at how much just that little can do to elevate your heart rate and get your blood pumping and your body processes working better. Take tai chi or chi gung (qi gong) lessons.] Whether or not anyone wants to admit it -- you will get more respect if you take care of your body.

7. Work. Be productive. Be consistent.

8. Journal. Write down your thoughts and manifestations. Brainstorm. Create ideas. [Write down every seed of an idea. Flesh them out. Keep track of what works and what doesn't.] Record your manifestations and take joy in them.

These are key things in creating life in balance, mentally, spiritually, physiologically, and financially.