When you think of the word “balance”, what comes to your mind? For me, in the past, I thought of a picture of a balance scale in which one stone on the left side weighs exactly the same as three stones on the right and it is perfect and plum.
But balance, when it comes to work life balance, is not a noun. It is not that static image that shows up on google about the stones. Balance is a verb and a verb is an action word. Balance is something you do constantly. Several factors continue to shift and you respond to them. You perform the balancing act. Perhaps you already know this.
But here’s where I’m going. If there’s a moment, you feel that things are out of balance. Remember that this moment does not define you. This moment describes a static experience, a noun-moment, if you will pardon the grammar. This moment tells you that there is a need to take the action of balancing.
Secondly, because balance is a verb, something you do and not a static state, it means that the process of balancing is continuous.
Give yourself some grace especially when things feel so out of balance.
Everything Shola 