Maintain Equilibrium From Within

Dear loving people,

I got a call recently from the Manger of a Bank in Yaounde, Cameroon. He wanted me to come talk to his team. Recently, his team is increasingly getting demotivated and showing signs of individual as well as collective diminishing performance. The situation is already affecting their clients and my client equally told me he had no idea how to go about resolving that.

Well, firstly I told him that is the reason why Living Lectures exists, to offer lasting solutions. Part of the strategy I used in resolving the problem is what I tell every other person working hard at making life much better for themselves and their loved ones. Whether you are at the top of the largest organization in the world or at the bottom of the smallest, you have to amidst all, maintain a balance within and across the different spheres in which you operate and at all levels: balance at the job-site, balance at home, balance between your job and family and you name it.

Euripides says “The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.”

Now, just imagine that you are juggling five balls. Each of them represent important parts of your job life for example – Motivation, Choices, Performance, Colleagues and Promotion. Four ball are made of glass and only one is made of rubber. We need to recognize that Promotion is a rubber ball. While Motivation, Choices, Performance and Colleagues are very fragile, if you drop one of them, they will be irreversibly damaged or even shattered. This understanding will help to keep the balance in your work life and this analysis can be extrapolated into the other important spheres of your life.

“We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves” says Francis J. Braceland

Let it work for you and not against you.