Developing Balance Through Your Journal

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The One Tool You Need to Lead a Balanced Life is a great guest post by Haider Al-Mosawi on Zen Habits.

The idea is that you create a Personal Growth Map from the Seven Life Areas that are our lives, then take the following actions:

1. List all the activities you can do to advance each life area
2. Consider activities that stretch across several life areas
3. Select the activities you want to carry out for each life area

When these actions are combined they provide you with a more balanced approach to life and help you gain control while satisfying your needs across multiple life areas.

For example, one activity might be jogging. The loneliness of the long-distance runner is a recognised fact, but finding a jogging partner or group, and extending that to other pastimes (like blogging about it) would create a life / balance system across a number of life areas — recreational, social, creative.

Read the post at Zen Habits or go straight to Personal Growth Map then use your journal to start creating balance.

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