Quotes About Balance

are there periods of history for which work, vocation, and spirituality were mutually supportive aspects of life:

Humankind has not learned about balance, let alone practiced it. It is guided by greed and ambition, steered by fear. In this way it will eventually destroy itself. But nature will survive; at least the plants will.

Don't push the river. It will travel at its own speed anyway.

We wish for a symmetry of feeling, but we rarely get it. It is painful to be the one who loves more, and painful to be the one who loves less.

life brings you everything at once. You can be in misery because of the misery of your daughter at the same time as you're exhilarated by a new romance, a romance that feels like the first act of a new life.

Hey, lay off the dairy. And uh, no more happiness.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

The law of Forced Efficiency says that There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

Rule: It is the quality of time at work that counts and the quantity of time at home that matters.

You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower-value activities.

The Law of Forced Efficiency says, "There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important things.

The more you discipline yourself to use your time well, the happier you will feel and the better will be the quality of your life in every area.

There is more to life than just increasing its speed.

You can't decide to value your child sometimes, and then put a game of Farmville, or golf, or a scrapbooking session before kids on other days. Values are non-negotiable like that.

Your ability to choose between the important and the unimportant is the key determinant of your success in life and work.

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

Time management is really life management

You can get control of your time and your life only by changing the way you think, work, and deal with the never-ending river of responsibilities that flows over you each day. You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.

Pronto puedes estar tan ocupado con las actividades diarias del trabajo que pierdas de vista los resultados generales requeridos.

15. Technology is a terrible master: Take back your time from enslaving technological addictions. Learn to often turn devices off and leave them off.

The main reason to develop time management skills is so that you can complete everything that is really important in your work and free up more and more time to do the things in your personal life that give you the greatest happiness and satisfaction.

As Goethe said, "The things that matter most must never be at the mercy of the things that matter least.

There are 168 hours in a week. The average person works 8 hours per day (40 hours a week); sleeps 8 hours per day (56 hours a week); and dresses, eats, and travels to work 4 hours per day (28 hours a week). These tasks use up 124 hours, leaving 44 hours a week as spare time.

What this means is that you will never be caught up. Get that wishful idea out of your mind. All you can hope for is to be on top of your most important responsibilities. The others will just have to wait.