The Power of Balance- Part 1

Try talking to someone everyday and they will be bored of you soon, try ignoring them for too long and they will forget you. No salt in a dish makes the dish tasteless, put lots of them in and the dish is horrible. No exercise gives you health problem, too much exercise damage your ligaments. I think I need no further elaboration and you should be able to get my point. Moderation or rather balance is the key to obtaining optimum results in whatever you do.

Some would argue that you should do your best in everything you do, so how does balance come into play in this aspect? Instead of focusing on the short term result of doing your best, we should look at the long term and see how one can achieve his best. To do your best, one must have the energy before he can perform his best. To be at your best, you must have rest to charge up your energy. Looking at it at an even longer term, doing your best is maintaining a result of performance, a marathon of improving everyday. There are people in life who spurs for the moment and after their energy has been used up, they will slump into depression and never rise up again. These people looks good for the moment while it last but they will only live for that moment. Being the best requires you to be consistent with your performance and improving as time progresses.

However this does not mean that the people who perform at their best are performing equally exceptionally well from time to time. There are many balance model to me, here are some examples

1st Model- The Volcanoes
Spur for the moment, used up their energy and take a break. After re-charging, they challenge new heights and commence their next stage of “explosion”
- The Technology model

2nd Model- The Constant
Slow build up of momentum and improving themselves everyday. Does not have impressive moves but definitely progressing everyday and will be the best as time progresses
- The Toyota model

3rd Model- The Wave
Exponential progress as time progresses and once reaching their peak will start smoothing out the curve as energy depletes. Does not need time to rest as they just slow down their momentum and starts building up for the next big wave!
- The Real Estate Model

There may be many other models but what I am trying to demonstrate is that all these models exercise the rationale of balance. They always stay at equilibrium of movement. If they move rapidly, they will slow down, if they move consistently they will be at equilibrium, when they move slowly down, they will build up again.

The To & Fro is like a roller coaster ride and the key to the ride is progress. There are some who are like missiles who only get to rise once and get to crash also only once. Just like a life who has its ups and downs, one must learn how to pick himself up and carry on the challenge of life, always seeking the balance by trying to go back to equilibrium.

At this point, I would like to share a philosophy about balance in relationship. A good life partner is like your balancing machine, they will cheer you up when you are down and bring you down when you are too haughty and arrogant. Hence even in having a life partner is about balance, having that someone who can balance your weakness and your strength, your thoughts and your feelings, someone who can provide you with an alternative vision. Everyone is born not as a perfect being which is why we need the special someone who can balance our life and making us succeed beyond our normal capabilities.

There are people who get together because of differences and there are some who also break up because of differences. This may be because the couples are not able to reconcile their differences and felt that it is an annoyance rather than strength. Maybe they fail to realize that those who keep pointing out your weaknesses are trying to balance out their flaws and they are the ones who truly care about you.

In short life is about balancing, always seek the balance so that you can perform at your best. There are still many things that I wish to elaborate in terms of balance in the way you handle things, balance in business and balance “many other stuff” but this will be all for now as this post is getting way too long ^^. To end off, I will talk about a love story of balance that you may hear of before-

When god created human, there is no male and female, they are wholesome and perfect being. However they split into 2, one male and one female, when they came to the mundane world and has ever since lose their balance in life. Hence they spend their whole life trying to seek their other half so that they can be whole and balanced again.

PS: For you who are reading this, hope you can seek balance in life too =)

Balance your life and you will never be deep in depression or too proud without friends
~ James Tan ~