Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

One of my favorite authors, EB White said, “I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. That makes it hard to plan the day.”  Have you found this too?

Then I remember moments that are most meaningful to me – and they often involved an event or relationships, in addition to those aha times where your brain needs a fix. It's the mix that matters most. Balance is about what you focus on over the span of a day.

Online additions can easily add busy tasks – so you hardly have a spare minute, as if to not be busy was a waste of time. When speed and busyness seduce us into believing that fun and relaxation waste time – it’s time to find a pathway back into balance.

Otherwise, as brain experts show it and William Thorsell states it, “You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it.”

Balance is more than time management, it’s about adding choices from all 8 intelligences into your day – and then enjoying what creativity you come up with in each. Let’s say you run a home or small business….

Fellow blogger, Barbra Sundquist, over at HomeBusinessWiz offers an excellent Entrepreneurial Self-Assessment that brings back balance.

Barbra reminds us that while …”Starting a home based business is an exciting venture…” it is also one that invites more balance than many give it. Check out Barbra’s recommendations for …

1. The rewards of home based business

2. The downside of home based business

3. Personal qualities required

4. Knowledge required

5. Knowing your weak areas

6. Gaining family support

7. Securing enough money

She also offers an excellent entrepreneurial self-assessment quiz  that helps you to build new balance between work and life.

Now I see why Barbra has time for many of the other intelligences such as spatial knowledge that marks her fascinating art creations and interpersonal knowing through word-of-mouth marketing with friends. Lack of balance kills your creative brain cells, but balance enhances business, adds fun friendships, and returns a new zest for living. Today I have a good business friend coming by for lunch …. How about you?