As you may have noticed my posts have been rather scarce recently and I would like to apologise. My new job has swept me up completely with travel, meetings, writing proposals, trying to do about a million things all at once. It's great, enjoying myself hugely and the challenges ahead of me, but equally there is a nagging thought in the back of my mind trying to remind me about balance. Balance in the sense of finding the time to do the things that keep us sane, the things that form part of our identity other than work, things that give us respite and allow us to remain ourselves despite the growing demand on our time and energy. I like to call it soul-food myself, but perhaps you could also talk about me-time, or hobbies, or whatever you like to call it that signifies time off-duty.
The trouble with finding balance is that work invariably has cunning ways of reminding you of your responsibilities and deliverables, your in-box overflows with requests, people ring you up, come over to your desk to ask -"have you done it yet?' and the things you need for balancing all this out are invariably silent. The need for 'me-time' doesn't ring you up in the middle of the night to tell you that by eight o'clock the following morning you need to attend a 'me-time' meeting, nor do emails pop into your in-box with 'urgent' priority telling you to go cycling or whatever pastime you really enjoy - so what happens? We forget, we are swept up in the whirl-wind of activity and it's simply hard to just stop and press pause, step outside the madness for a while (and not feel guilty) and devote time to ourselves away from all the demands.
I suppose once you have a family, this becomes even harder - because not only are you having to balance work and family life, you also have to try to stick some 'me-time' into that equation of previously two variables, becoming three variables. The trick is that work and family will both remind you of their requirements, but will you remind yourself of your own requirements? It is really a balancing act, just because you have managed to do it so well weeks or days in a row, every day is a new challenge and ignore the balancing too long and things will start to suck, even when they are going great. In the beginning you can't put your finger on it, but your enthusiasm isn't what it once felt like, soon getting up in the morning and the usual routines become a drag, grumpiness is not far behind and before long everything feels claustrophobic and you are tired all the time.
It's like walking a tightrope - you must think of every step, yet never look down - and just because you have taken 5 successful consecutive steps doesn't mean that the sixth will automatically be fine. You have to concentrate for every step and deliberately stop yourself from the natural instinct of trying to look where you are going. So too with balancing time - it is far too easy to just do what we are asked, all the time, without question - it is much harder to continuously keep balancing the demands on us with the needs we have ourselves, but we have to, for the sake of sanity. I say this sitting here with a cold again - that is my body telling me that I have ignored it a little too long and devoted too much of my time to doing the things I have to do, not the things I want to do. Sooner or later reality has an uncanny way of catching up with us.
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