How To Balance Yourself

Ever feel that your wheel is spinning? That you are constantly taking care of work and your family, but it never feels like enough? It feels like we are failing somewhere, that there is a never-ending to-do list, and find that we don’t have a chance to do something for ourselves. How can we sit and read a book or take time to focus on our art or passion when we have other people who rely on us? It is easy to forget about ourselves when we are so focused on other people that we end up forgetting who we are. After a time, our whole world revolves around other people. We get to the point of realizing we don’t know what we enjoy for fun anymore. We know what fulfilled us 5 years ago, but we don’t know what fulfills us now. For many people, this is when they realize they have been filling that hole in themselves by giving and giving themselves to others.

So the question remains, how do we balance ourselves? How do we balance our time raising kids, taking care of our family, and finding time for our spouse? It is so easy to lose ourselves over the years. How do we rediscover ourselves as an individual?

We often look at this as a problem in time, that we don’t have time to do it all. But it is actually a problem of priorities. That we prioritize our work or our family over ourselves. Many would gape at the statement about prioritizing yourself over your kids, but putting yourself…