Whether we are practicing law or working in some other occupation, we are constantly balancing things. We balance the needs of our clients or customers against the needs of our business to be profitable. We balance our workload. We balance our finances. We balance the needs of our children against the needs of the entire household. In all of our balancing, have we ever stop to think about balancing the our own needs? Have we ever really stopped everything and just focus on our own emotional, mental and physical needs? It seems we spend so much of our energies focusing on everything “out there” (i.e., our job, career, family, society, nature, etc.) that we for forgotten to focus our energies on what is happening inside of us. We have given to everything except what is most important - we have not given to ourselves.

Leading a balance life means that for every part that we give to something or someone that is “out there”, we must give an equal amount to ourselves. It means that we must give as much energy to take care of our emotional, mental and physical health as we have devoted to our job, career, family, friends and society. If you are so busy giving that you don’t stop to receive, then how can you continue to give when there is nothing left? How can you lead a balance your life if you don’t care of yourself? When you are old and in poor health and pain because you have failed to take care of your body and your health, who will experience the pain?