Finding the balance

[MatsuShinshii]

You do what you can when you can. There is no magic formula. Work, family and training/teaching has to be a balance that makes sense to you.

You can't let your work suffer because you have to make money to feed your family. You can't let your family time suffer because you can never get it back. You also need to train/teach. It's tough. Only you can decide what the balance is because we all have lives and responsibilities that are different.

Best advice is to find a balance that works for you.

[sensei8]

You do what you can when you can. There is no magic formula. Work, family and training/teaching has to be a balance that makes sense to you.

You can't let your work suffer because you have to make money to feed your family. You can't let your family time suffer because you can never get it back. You also need to train/teach. It's tough. Only you can decide what the balance is because we all have lives and responsibilities that are different.

Best advice is to find a balance that works for you.

Solid post!!

Finding that balance that suits you takes time. However, that time is never wasted because the betterment sought after makes all the difference. To me, because it's a personal choice, there's no wrong choice.

[Alan Armstrong]

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Bruce Lee

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Water can also represents balance in Chinese elements.

As in using a spirit level when building anything for a foundation.

The pig is considered to represent water for its stability quality.

Water takes the longest route to reach the ocean, which represents having patience and perseverance.

Water can be deep which represents being knowledgeable and profound.

The nature of water is to find the balance but to keep moving keeps it fresh, otherwise once the balance is found, it will go stale.

Therefore balance is not a destination, it is maintaining motion in a direction that you want to be heading in.