The Art of Balance

  Hello everyone I have been having a little issue with balance in my life right now. When I obtain a "balance" I function pretty well and things tend to go on the up and up for me. Sometimes though I upset the balance I achieved; to strive for the extraordinary. Once I have destroyed my balance I have a hard time getting it back and I start going into my old bad habits that I eliminated when I had balance.
   For example before I went to school to become an electrician I had pretty decent balance. I was engaged with my kung fu , I worked, had a good social life, and even some decent down time to rest. To me this was a nice balance. 
     Once I started school I made the conscious decision to throw off my balance and I stopped doing kung fu almost all together. I was not showing up for classes and not practicing at all. For this action I had done there were consequences. One I became the top student in my class and got 91% on my A.I.T exam. Which I am glad I did focus so much on, becasue this will be my future. Now I have a job working 5 days a week for Canadian power pac; I am pretty happy about this.
   But now I am done school and trying to revive my old balance I used to have, but because I upset my balance I awoke my own bad habits that I thought were gone. Procrastination, laziness, eating to much, nervousness, and scared.
   For me these things used to be the bread and butter of the type of person I used to be, and for me it took a long time to get rid of these bad traits of myself. Now I am not saying I am full blown like that now, but I saw everyone of these traits of mine creep back up on me.   
    I know how to get rid of these traits of mine, because I have done it before, but I am still a bit flustered of the situation.
   If anything I learned about balance is that it is hard to mastery, but not impossible, it's hard to maintain, but not impossible. Sometimes you have to break the balance to do something amazing, but all I really know is that balance will always be there if you want it to be, so you might not ever need to stop having a balanced life to achieve a goal, but for me I am still figuring it out. Most likely I will be trying to figure it out for the rest for my life and I am okay with that. It just means my life in the future will be hopefully exciting and fun.
   Anyways that's my view on the art of balance. So remember everyone stay extraordinary.


Sifu R. Langner