Exploring Happiness #2- Balance Poem by June Stepansky

A juggler knows
the importance of
balance.
A tight-rope walker
understands
the necessity of
balance.

I, too, try to
balance the days
the weeks, the years,
into a kind of
symmetry.


A life that has balance can be a happier life, because we can plan into it all the elements that we need to make our lives uniquely our own.
The important word is planning. In order to have balance, we need to develop the skills of self-understanding, choice, and planning.
We need, therefore, to look at each day, each week, each year, and put into them the elements of balance—–rest, recreation, work, growth, and then
re-evaluate what is no longer working
for us and make the changes needed that might make our lives better.

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It’s not the plan that’s important, it’s the planning.
Graeme Edwards


Whatever failures I have known, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
Bernard M. Baruch