There are few constants is life. All things are in a state of flux. Growing or dying. Don’t believe it? Try leaving your car alone for a few months and see what happens. It begins to die. The tires go flat. Silt and dirt begin to consume it.
Intention holds a car that’s driven together. Daily balance isn’t for you. It’s for what you want.
From going to the gym to car care and taxes the things in life we want require energy. Focus. No focus and at once nature runs its course. A road undriven becomes overgrown.
For me, daily balance is focus on work projects, health, the mind and God. Without all of these I see life degrade. My body, my vitality and mental attitude and lens begin to shift. It’s subtle. Bit by bit life slips away.
Great masters have taught about daily balance and it seemingly feels like it’s for you that they teach. It’s not. It for what you want. It’s for drive and vitality and God. And the material world. Because if you live here, it’s all material. Life. Without attention it dies.
I know. So then what?
I am still finding this perfection. I binge. We are all addicts. It’s just some of us choose healthy addictions over ones that kill. Take the yoga instructor or fitness fanatic, are they any less addicted?
Some choose Twinkies and sugar. I like coffee. Okay, I FUKCING love coffee.
I can write software for 10 or 15 days straight, day and night. I can adventure the globe months on end. And drink black coffee :/
But then I hit a wall. I begin to notice the impact on my vitality and I burnout.
Realizing that my biceps are smaller than I want. Or that my view of God has declined. That magic has slipped away . . .
After some cycles I feel like I’m in a hamster wheel. The next level of anything is better focus. Which is really just MORE time. If you give accurate daily focus to anything it will become real.
The death of binging, is my intention. I want to realize mastery over reality. Over the body, over life. Seriously there are 24 hours in the day. I sleep about six … okay maybe seven with an afternoon nap.
That leaves seventeen hours to meditate, to eat, to study, to focus and toward directing life.
What do you want?