Thursday, September 22, 2011

Key Parts of Life


In the rest of this blog, we’ll take a look at the 7 key aspects of life that need to be in balance. We’ll stand on a desk chair and hold a measuring tape to the ceiling. We’ll take good notes on where each blade passes the tape, and then we’ll come up with a plan to make those adjustments. It won’t be easy--sometimes it’s hard to loose a screw and sometimes you have to take the blade off completely and bend the supports a little, but the end result is worth it. Your wobble might be barely noticeable or it could be scaring everyone around you--no matter where you’re at, it could use some adjustment.

The first blade we’re going to look at is career. Some people make career the entire focus of their lives and pour all their energy into climbing the ladder. Others make career a distanced (and often despised) part of their lives that has little connection to the rest life.

We’ll take a look at the social blade. As human beings we live in constantly shifting communities. We have a need for people--not just people we meet on the street but casual friends who can get coffee with us on Tuesdays and those two or three people who stuck with you through everything.

Money is a key part of our lives--the financial blade. We break our backs trying to earn it. We borrow it to build or buy stuff. We give some of it to organizations to keep the rest of it safe. If we don’t understand our money, it can easily drag us away to places we never wanted to go.

We’ll take a look a the greatest tool you’ll ever have--your body. The physical blade. We’ll look at  common ways to destroy it, and great ways to keep it running well. This is the only body I’ll have this lifetime, and that is the only body you get this lifetime. Let’s plan accordingly.

It’s tempting to leave academics back in school, but we’ll look at the intellectual blade. We need to keep growing and learning--this world has a lot of great stuff to learn, pick something you like--then pick something you’ve never considered.

Everybody has or had a family--whether they’ve been present or not, a good influence or not. The family blade is key in understanding where you came from and where you’re going. Friends come and go, but family will always be family.

Lastly, we’ll look at the spiritual blade. Humans were made with a desire for the supernatural. We’ll take a look at where that comes from and how to incorporate that into our lives in a healthy way.

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