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Getting Out of Balance

　　The underlying core of my more than 2,000 Time Management presentations during the last twenty years has been the concept of "balance." Success in managing our time has less to do with the tools available to us, such as "to do lists" and techniques for delegation, as it has to do with achieving daily balance in our lives. If we are not in balance to begin with, we are likely to sabotage our success. Successful Time Management, then, has a lot to do with what we are not doing.

　　Here's my list of the seven best ways to "Get Out of Balance."

　　1. Ignore your health.

　　Don't get the quantity and quality of sleep you require. Don't take time for exercise. Eat the wrong stuff. (90% of those who join Health and Fitness Clubs today will stop going within the next 90 days.) Your resistance level will be reduced and you will be susceptible to all the latest sniffles and flues going around to ensure that you take advantage of all the sick days you are allowed. Seventy five percent of all adult deaths are preventable. We are literally driving ourselves to early graves in these "hurry-up, stressful" lives of ours.

　　It's interesting that when someone gets a new car, they bring it in for the scheduled maintenance, put the right grade of fuel in the tank, and keep it shiny and clean. Our pets visit the veterinarian on a scheduled basis. In a recent study, 34% of the men surveyed said they would not go to the doctor even if they were experiencing chest pains.

　　2. Postpone family time.

　　They will always be there for you anyway when you get the time for them. A student once asked me, "what is the best way to take my four year old on vacation?" I replied, "You take her when she's four years old." Fifty percent of marriages wind up in divorce court. Imagine, getting married at age twenty-five and twenty years later, at age forty-five, you give up 50% of everything you have worked for in your adult life in a property settlement in divorce court. It's like the squirrel, gathering the nuts, hoarding away while someone is drilling a hole in the side of the tree to let all the nuts escape. The squirrel is too busy to hear the impending threat. The average working person spends less than two minutes per day in meaningful communication with their spouse or "significant other" and less than thirty seconds per day in meaningful communication with their children.

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