Thousands of years ago, the Mayans discovered balance by building and integrating structures and monuments in their natural surroundings, orchestrating them to the movement of the stars.
After 20 years of writing about finding better balance in our life activities and relationships, I was surprised to discover that balance is a natural state.
As some will discover, the balance and flexibility commonly associated with a home office may not always be achieved by officing at home.
Let them discover, by balancing their budget, what happens when they purchase a lot of small items, or one expensive item, too quickly after receiving their allowance.
This may come as a surprise to Mr. Duncan, but if the truth were known, we don't send young people to college to "find balance," or to discover "well-roundedness," nor should we.
There is power in discovering the balance between what you can control and what you cannot control, then living to the upper limit of that balance.
Odds are he hasn't yet discovered the balance between making an enormous sum of money and putting out an enormous effort.
Most likely, unless you're a yogi or a dancer, had a posture-obsessed mom, or, like me, have discovered the Balance Ball Chair, you are spending a lot of time flattening out your lumbar spine, (low back curve).
Do that math, she writes, and: … a year and a half into a new decade, it may come as a surprise to you, as it did to me, to discover that on balance, husbands and wives have never before had such similar workloads.
And while I'm not arguing that we should (or could) go back to a pre-digital economy in which corporations are infinitely more powerful than consumers, we do need to discover a better balance between the almost instant destruction of today's digital marketplace and a consumer culture which is more forgiving of corporate screw-ups.
