Life-Balance Analysis assignment

 According to the Figure 2.8, my life-balance analysis form turned out to be not balanced at all :). As you can see, the family activities part is bigger than the other ones because my parents attach a really big importance to the family, on sharing common values and doing fun activities together. However, there are two areas that are not coloured which are the Physical activities and Spiritual activities. Honestly, I don’t do physical activities because I am really lazy… well, I walk a lot I don’t know if that’s considered as a physical activity but I do walk a lot, it’s just that I don’t go to the gym. Concerning the spiritual activities, I have tried one class of yoga but it was so hard for me that I didn’t want to do it again, but I have really liked the meditation part of it, it is relaxing and it’s brings you peace and calm. I don’t have a job right now so instead of Work activities I would call it Studies.

Concerning the Cultural activities, Intellectual activities and Social activities, I must say that I used to do a lot of these activities with my friends back home. I used to go to a lot of museums, read books and travel a lot. These habits have changed a little bit when came to Québec because I am willing to finish my MBA as soon as possible, so I prefer to study as hard as I can and not really give that much of importance to these kind of activities. 

How to improve my development in needed areas?

I think that I definitely need to work on the areas that are empty. I have to work on the spiritual aspect, in fact I should give yoga another try and maybe try harder next time. As I said before, I have really enjoyed the meditation part of it because it made me connect with my soul and get all that stress out. I also think that if I workout more often, it will help with the yoga classes, because one of the things that made me quit these classes is that I wasn’t in a good shape so it was hard for me to perform a lot of different postures. I should clearly work on these two activities, but for the time being I don’t think that it’s an urgent or a very important matter.

As long as the other activities are concerned (social, cultural and intellectual) I think that I am trying as hard as I can to improve them. I’m starting to make friends and go out with them to different places in Québec. One month ago, I went to visit some museums with my friends then we had coffee in the Vieux Québec, I had a great time and it was like I have just realized that going out is fun, I should go out more often and I am missing a lot. 

Things I will stop doing that will help me achieve better life balance

I suppose that I should stop focusing too much on my studies and have fun for once. The fact that I have to finish my MBA as fast as I can is hunting me and it’s making me forget about the fun part of life. I am trying to do so, but I still think about my studies even when I am out with friends. So yes, that’s a thing that I should work on. This is a really important matter to me right now, I sometimes get angry and stressed because I don’t have fun as much as I used to, but I’m working on it.

On my ‘To do list’…

I am not going to do any exercise for the day, instead I made plans to go out with a friend this weekend to have some fun! I am really excited about this, I can’t wait to do it and really enjoy every minute of it, after all that’s what life is all about J.

Zahra