Life Balance (AS)

As you can see my level of development in each area, according to my point of view, is quite equal. Except for the spiritual activities that are barely present in my life. Am I happy with this balance? I can’t say that. Unfortunately, I would rather have one or two parts of this graph completely colored for example family activities and intellectual activities, rather that all of them partially colored.

How to improve my development in needed areas?

Well, clearly I need to improve my spiritual skills!! I had the chance to attempt some Yoga classes before (3 years ago), but after one semester … I quite! For me it wasn’t relaxing at all!! I was always looking for something more, to calm me down in other ways than taking the “tree posture”.  At the end of the 3^rd class my teacher even came to me to tell me that I really have to work on that energy that is in me, because on a long run it’s going to be very exhausting. So I tried and tried, and maybe I calm myself down a little but it wasn’t enough. Maybe I was too “young” to understand the real meaning of these classes, so I should try again now to see how it goes.

I would also love to improve the family and cultural activities that from my point of view can be put together. Indeed, going with my whole family to some exhibitions or concerts would be very helpful for us. Unfortunately, now I am in Canada and they are in France… but it’s a good challenge for this summer. Moreover, the context of vacations is going to be a good starting point because we will all be together and it might be the beginning of a new traditionJ.

I am quite satisfied with the balance between work and social activities but I really want them to be more “colored”!! I have already decided that this second semester is going to be very different from the previous one. Maybe because I know this semester is going to be the last one with the people I met here, and that such an experience won’t happened again, in such a context with the same people. I decided to live my life fully at 100%, in order not to have regrets. Because life is too short to have regrets. I have been surrounded by workaholics most of my childhood and adult life and I know that looking back at their past they are not fully satisfied by the way things went and have a lot of regrets… I don’t want to feel that pressure.

Things I will stop doing

I guess like every student I have to stop surfing on the web and going on FB every 2 minutes to see the updates of my friends life! This sentence contain all, I realized that I am much more interested in my friends life and about their activities than my proper life!! And it is using a lot of my time!! This is why, I have to start prioritize things. Put some matters above others and learn to say…”no”.  To say “no” is going to be the most problematic, at the age of 23 I still haven’t learn how to say “no” without having the feeling of guilt that surrounds me… the others might not see it, but inside of me I am on fire when I have to say “no”.  But no one said that life is an easy and blue road, it’s full of curves and wholes that have to be overcome!

I should stick with my “to do list” of the day. I started doing so at the beginning of the year, and it really helped me to feel ok. But I really need to DO them, not give up.

Practice exercise of the day

It’s not really a day exercise but much more on the long run, which here is for the beginning of the week. I was able to do everything on time as planned thanks’ to the “To Do list” that I have wrote on Monday. And I have to admit that it makes me feel lighterJ. I don’t have that feeling in the stomach that I have missed or didn’t do something. I am definitely going to stick with the “to do” list. Unfortunately, it hasn’t really diminished my “surfing” phase on the web, but when I was surfing I was able to say to myself: “ok, 2 more minutes and I go back to the work” and for the moment it worked… Hope I will stick with such a motivation, because I realized that it’s really up to me, if I want to feel better, I have to be the one that  institute the changes in my life, no one is going to do it for me”.