Rebalance Your Tires: Step Three – Revitalize Your Life
When we decide to make a significant change in
our life, we get worked up. We motivate ourselves.
We become excited. We’re nervous about what others may think and concerned about the risk we’re taking.
For most of us, change is synonymous with risk. So
why risk rebalancing our tires?
• Because unless we are willing to take risks, we will suffer paralyzing inhibitions.
• Because if we don’t, we’ll never do what we’re capable of doing.
• Because it’s exciting to live, act and think this way.
• Because it’s the only way we can change.
• Because your commitment to rebalance your tires is burning inside of you.
Risk is the core of leadership; without embracing it, you simply will never voice the way you want to rebalance your tires. You’ll never lead yourself. You’ll keep it inside.
We need to accept risk as the only way we’ll ever make substantive change toward reaching a better balance in our lives.
Self-Engergize
Too many people today have lost their zest for new adventure. Their energy levels are dangerously low, in fact, sometimes depleted. Work is all consuming with little time left for balancing out the other half of life.
Changing significant activities in your life requires self leadership. You need to say, “This is where I’m going.” Then follow yourself there.
When we hitch up our britches and move out, we self-energize our lives. We discover new viewpoints, we allow new people into our lives, we go to new places, we take risks and we learn new ideas.
All these activities and events make us “happy campers” again. Our life is more in control: we’re more the way we want to be versus the way we currently feel we have to be.
Clayton Barbeau, a counseling psychologist, says, “We are all either energy suckers or energy givers.” Many people, out of balance, with low energy levels, tend to be energy suckers. But balanced people radiate energy since they feel more in control and focus their activities on what is important to them rather than urgent for someone else. Therefore, you will self-energize your life in the process of rebalancing your tires.
Habits also have tremendous gravitational pull. Our “lift off” will require tremendous effort, but once we break out of the gravity pull, our newly balanced life takes on a whole new dimension.
“Nothing succeeds like success” is a proverb you can use to help jump start your rebalancing project. You have selected roles and goals to help you balance out specific parts of your life.
Select the Core Responsibilities, priorities and action steps which will be the most fun, and most likely to show the quickest return on your rebalancing investment.
Begin the plan on Monday. Give yourself an entire week to work on just one or two priorities. Don’t bite off too much.