January: Get a Balanced Life Month (But if You’re Reading This in a Different Month, It’s Still Great to be Balanced!)

Balance can come in many forms, and focusing on any of them can help you feel more at peace!

January is often thought of as a month of new beginnings, goals, and resolutions, and it is a great time for this! However, it’s also officially named “Get a Balanced Life” Month, which provides a greater awareness that, while we’re looking for new ways to change our lives, remembering balance is a key factor to consider. This is important for two reasons:

Keeping balance in mind can help you to create goals that will increase the level of balance that you maintain in your life. This can mean a balanced schedule (work-life balance), a balanced diet (the right fuel can build fitness and wellness), a balanced mind (emotional resilience and the fun of learning new things), and many other forms of balance. It’s all quite worthy of remembering in your goals.

Maintaining balance in mind as you create these goals can help you to stick with them. Having the goal of physical fitness is fantastic, but approaching it from an imbalanced perspective (planning hours at the gym each day, for example, instead of starting with moderate exercise and working your way up) can sabotage your motivation and make quitting feel inevitable. Staying balanced in your approach can make all the difference!

In the interest of balance, here are some strategies for maintaining balance, and here are some tips for setting goals in a way that you can more easily reach them. Think about the areas of your life that may be out of balance. Which areas would you like to bring into balance first? You may want to make a list of goals and keep it where you can find it. And then be sure you do something fun today–this is an excellent and simple way to feel balanced in many ways!

(And again, if you’re reading this any other time of the year, just harness the “spirit of January” and change what you want now!)