Balance has little to do with the amount of time you spend in any area of your life. When you're focused and excited about something, you can spend mega hours at it and feel fulfilled and balanced. So, don't worry about whether you're spending too much time at something. The secret to balance lies not in an allotment of time but in an awareness of your priorities.

2. Check your priorities daily When you're driving a car, you're making constant small corrections. You're steering, adjusting the gas, and braking almost automatically, but you are paying attention and constantly making corrections to accommodate changing situations along your route. Keeping your life in balance requires the same kind of ongoing correction process. Balance is about choices. When you're keeping yourself in balance you're making a thousand internal corrections each day. You're constantly asking yourself, What do I value? What's really important? Does this activity really need to be done now?

No matter how good you become at it, you won't be in balance every moment of every day. Tune in to the signals your mind, spirit, and body send that warn you when you're slipping out of balance. Compensate sooner rather than later. The quicker you realign yourself, the smaller the "wobble" you'll have to correct.

The balance that comes from fulfillment acts as a lens. It clears the view to your dream. Balance and the big picture are self-reinforcing energies. Stay balanced, and you'll be able to keep the big picture in sight—stay focused on the big picture, and you'll see clearly the choices that will keep your balance. Fulfillment creates balance—and balance creates fulfillment. Make choices that are consistent with what makes you feel fulfilled. Use this Balance affirmation often: I give to the things that are important to me the amount of time that creates the greatest sense of fulfillment.

"The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness. It's the things you do half-heartedly that really wear you out." —David Whyte

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