Balance...

If I put each of these three piles on the scales their weights will be different, but their value is exactly the same.

Ten minutes with your journal can bring balance to your whole day, lunch with an old friend can re-balance weeks of texts and missed calls, and easing the self-imposed deadline on one big goal can free up more bandwidth than 20 minor tweaks to your schedule.

Balance is often as much about quality as it is about quantity, and the thing that could put you back into balance might be smaller and simpler than you think…