When referring to tasks of life and nutritional responsibilities, we are referring to the routine and daily tasks and responsibilities we have as individuals that contribute to our Life Balance. It ranges from getting up in the morning; to making the bed; to cleaning ourselves up; dressing; mowing the lawn; and making meals; including the purchasing of groceries and responsibility of buying nutritious food; custodianship of managing our finances and household bills; and other daily chores that fill our lives.
In the Life Enrichment Matrix© life balance within the daily responsibilities of our homes, work, finances, fitness and nutrition is essential for ultimate joy and fulfillment, as soon as we spend more time on the one, the other is neglected, therefor it is important to keep to routines and schedules in order to complete daily tasks and balance our life.
In the physical and nutritional quadrant we aim to contribute to the fitness levels of our bodies and add or contribute to healthy nutritional choices. Within this dimension normal life happens and it is of utmost importance that we reach our goals of completing our plans and schedules which encompass our routine tasks, life and responsibilities. Therefor Life Balance in daily tasks, life and responsibilities has been applied within the Physical and Nutritional quadrant of the LEM©, since it exerts an amount of physical responsibility and endurance to apply our minds to physically do our daily tasks and routine activities. It syncs within the Mental and Relational dimension too, since to be successful we require careful short- and long term planning and scheduling of our lives, wherein embedded are a community of people in relationship with us working together to balance life effectively.
Stephen Covey suggests: “Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas and forces surrounding you.”
Routine tasks, chores, work and responsibilities can be defined as things that originally occur at home, personally, and flow over to school, work or university. It entails things such as: brushing your teeth; practicing personal hygiene; dressing; cleaning the house; washing dishes and clothes; drying and ironing clothes; taking out the refuse; attending to the pool; getting mail; routine doctors appointments; paying bills; paying for workers of sort; cleaning and attending to the garden if you have one; attending to your vehicle or bicycle; filling up with fuel; purchasing bus, train or taxi tickets; buying groceries; purchasing chronic medicine; attending to any other health issues such as routine dental check-ups; assisting family members or members of the community with something; making nutritious meals for the day; exercising and also having some fun and enjoyment. Many of these tasks could flow over into being done at our workplace and other places, other than our homes.
Every day we have normal routine tasks and chores to do in life. We brush our teeth, wash, and dress and get ready for the day. We look after our bodies by eating meals, exercising and keeping our minds busy. But for some people life has too many demands and they struggle to do anything, never mind getting to do the routine tasks, chores and taking care of the personal hygiene of the day, getting up or going to work.
Often life becomes too much and gets the better of you while the schedule is getting fuller, and the planning is become too intricate trying to satisfy everyone and a sense of heaviness creeps in.
It could be that you are struggling with an illness, perhaps you have lost your job and you are fiercely looking for employment, and the stresses and pressures of bills are piling up. Maybe depression has developed and hopelessness and despair have taken up your whole being and you do not feel like moving or existing, since your helplessness has made you feel like giving up. It might even be as simple as that your body is feeling depleted, tired and energy-less and you feel as if you cannot commence doing your routine tasks and chores of the day.
What could you possibly do to drag yourself out of the doldrums?
First get to grips with what it is, that has caused your deterioration and poor demeanor?
Dr. Carol Morgan concludes that distress could occur when a person resists how the reality of their situation is. Should you be able to change something, do something about it. Immediately impose the necessary change. Do not resist - logically we cannot change our unemployment or illness immediately, but we can change how we think about it! We can initiate doing something about it. Is there possibly an opportunity embedded within this challenge?
You can accept the current temporary situation and make a choice to release negativity and replace it with an opposite positivity – lined with appreciation of what you currently have now – today!
Make a choice to not obsess about the current situation and deliberately take your mind somewhere else - go for a brisk walk; do an online free course; educate your mind with research on interesting life-contributing subjects; or listen to liberating music.
Mindset is a decision!
There is always hope! Start moving forward, no matter how slow - you might stumble across the opportunity waiting for you!
Realize you cannot do it alone! You need help!
We should embrace our responsibilities, experience their liberating effect as they invigorate us to desire the experience of feeling joy and fulfillment. Sometimes stress, worry and anxiety fills our days more than achievements do.
Please contact us and take advantage of the free session should you be struggling to cope, experience anxiety and pressure and require assistance or need to chat with someone.
Elvira
JustLive Coach
elvira@justlive.co.za
www.justlive.co.za
"As arduous as it may initially seem to take responsibility for ensuring that our choices are aligned with our values, when we do so, we take back our freedom to live with integrity." Zoe Weil