Quotes About Balance

success comes down to this: being appropriate in the moments of your life.

So the more things you do, the less successful you are at any one of them.

Purpose, meaning, significance—these are what make a successful life. Seek them and you will most certainly live your life out of balance, criss-crossing an invisible middle line as you pursue your priorities. The act of living a full life by giving time to what matters is a balancing act.

It's important for you to accept this instead of fighting it. Oscar-winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola warns us that "anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos." In other words, get used to it and get over it.

The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest.

Saying yes to everyone is the same as saying yes to nothing. Each additional obligation chips away at your effectiveness at everything you try.

people and problems can chew up your time and drain your energy.

In fact, you can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.

Purpose, meaning, significance—these are what make a successful life. Seek them and you will most certainly live your life out of balance, criss-crossing an invisible middle line as you pursue your priorities.

When you act on your priority, you'll automatically go out of balance, giving more time to one thing over another.

Tackling these tasks in the order we receive them is behaving as if the squeaky wheel immediately deserves the grease. But, as Australian prime minister Bob Hawke duly noted, "The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest.

In your effort to attend to all things, everything gets shortchanged and nothing gets its due.

To achieve an extraordinary result you must choose what matters most and give it all the time it demands. This requires getting extremely out of balance in relation to all other work issues

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." — William James

It's not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do, it's that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.

When you say yes to something, it's imperative that you understand what you're saying no to.

When people don't understand the power of the ONE Thing, they try to do too much—and because this never works over time, they end up making a horrific deal with themselves. They go for success by sacrificing their health. They stay up late, miss meals or eat poorly, and completely ignore exercise. Personal

But juggling isn't multitasking. Juggling is an illusion. To

Because I want my life to matter, I approach each area by doing what matters most in it. I view these as the cornerstones of my life and have found that when I'm doing what's most important in each area, my life feels like it's running on all cylinders.

The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.

Knowing when to pursue the middle and when to pursue the extremes is in essence the true beginning of wisdom. Extraordinary

So if achieving balance is a lie, then what do you do? Counterbalance. Replace the word "balance" with "counterbalance" and what you experience makes sense. The things we presume to have balance are really just counterbalancing.

Counterbalancing done well gives the illusion of balance.

PROTECT YOUR TIME BLOCK For time blocks to actually block time, they must be protected. Although time blocking isn't hard, protecting the time you've blocked is. The world doesn't know your purpose or priorities and isn't responsible for them—you are. So it's your job to protect your time blocks from all those who don't know what matters most to you, and from yourself when you forget.