Understanding Balance Through Capacity

Understanding Balance Through Capacity

Balance is an area of life where many business owners and entrepreneurs struggle. But, being balanced is not really difficult to master. Understanding balance is to understand the capacity that we carry. We must identify our capacity of what we need to carry in the current season before we identify and understand what we are able to balance. The best way this can be explained is to describe two seasons that one may experience. /One season can be described as being single while the other as being married. While married, little capacity may be required because of the responsibility of taking care of an entire family versus just taking care of yourself. So much can be done while being single. As a single person, we can work a 9-5, have our own business on the side, start a non-profit, take great care of ourselves, volunteer, and work on several additional projects without realizing that we have a lot going on. That’s a lot of capacity. However, as a married person, trying to juggle all of those areas and attend to a spouse and children will become more than we are use to and will eventually break us down.

Another example of understanding balance through capacity is taking care of a sick parent for a season. During that season, capacity will be limited because the attention that would usually be focused on dayto-day will need to shift to take care of loved ones. The question then becomes, “what must shift or move to the back burner for just a while?” Once seasons change, so does the capacity and ultimately what we balance.

Balancing Acts

Don’t be stressed out if you are unable to accomplish some things that you have vision for. Instead, make sure that you accomplish all that you can, if you have the capacity to do so in your current season.

1. Identify your season: What are you doing that informs you of your capacity band? What are you currently facing that is temporary? Focus on the more permanent things/ people in your life, then grab the extras until you reach capacity.

2. Evaluate what you would like to focus on. Different seasons require different goals and visions. Where are you now? You shouldn’t be in the same space that you were three years ago and this season should be different than you next season.

3. Build a team: Two are better than one. You cant and shouldn’t do life by yourself. Allow others to assist you along the way and keep them around so you can have others to celebrate with.

4. Move forward wherever you are, either by baby steps or leaps and bounds, any movement forward is progress. Get started right where you are.

Don’t feel bad about not being balanced. Relax. If you don’t have capacity to do more in this season, wait and master what is currently on your plate until your season changes.