Focus on Work and Life, Not Balance

Wake up early, hit the gym

Go to work, make some coffee and talk to Kim

Work through your keto (barely) lunch

Sit up straight so your back won’t hunch

Hurry home to text everyone back

Avoid eating that 4th snack

Read more 30-under-30 articles, to review your life and get a mini panic attack

Watch show #4 of #672394034 that are so hot right now

All of which are on 40 different streaming services, how?

And why? For what? To keep up with all the best memes

So that we can spend more time on our little screens, and medium screens and big screens

All of which are consumed with content about illness, disease and rioting

Making me watch nostalgic music videos from the 2000s

To reminisce about a time back before we were all fighting

Keep your friends close, and your finances closer

Start counting, we know excel is not sexy

But neither is your mom’s basement, stop fake flexing

Instagram will make you believe anything is real

But no matter what

Your life is very real

That sounds beyond stupid to say, I know

But don’t fantasize about lives that are for show

Get some self-help books and watch some personal finance videos

Boomers don’t know everything and neither do you

Pay off that debt and save some cash too

Investing can be for everyone, the rich aren’t any smarter

Remember that you create the life you want, not have, by working harder

The worst buys are impulse buys

We all know them, have done them, and have regretted them

Big Tech has figured out how to get into our subconscious minds

Through targeted practices that we have yet to condemn

It’s not all bad though

Small business can thrive

Support small and you’ll feel much better about spending that extra five

He’re the real trick to shopping lean

Don’t buy right away, take a few months to steam

If you are still thinking about it after that, it means you might actually use it

Don’t ever convince yourself you need/would look good in something

It definitely means you’ll be disappointed when you get it, or feel nothing

At the end of each season, make a wish list for the next time it rolls around

And also don’t forget to throw out the clothes you did not wear

If you didn’t wear it this time, why would you wear it next year? That’s fair

Don’t buy because its on sale

That usually means you’re a sucker for something stale

Your job is just a job

Maybe its your life

So what if your friend got a cool new gig, don’t sob

Its not a race, life has but one finish line

And we all end up the same way, so don’t waste time getting there faster

Because you ignore everything else around you, and become a walking disaster

And the truth is, get ready for it

Everyone is faking it until they make it

Well, almost everyone, some people are just gifted

Don’t judge your situation just because the tides have shifted

Stop focusing on precision

achieving your vision won’t happen faster if you second guess every decision

Sometimes its the right path, sometimes it could lead to another

Regret stings more when you didn’t try or bother in the first place

And a personality is not something you can replace

Stop drilling weaknesses, making them marginally less bad won’t make you money

Your strengths, values, and goals are what you should work towards honey

Remember when i said you create the life you want by working harder?

It’s not about quantity, it’s the quality of your work that will ultimately make you smarter

By the way, dreams, we all have them

Its realizing them that is a privilege and the real gem

However big or small or inconceivable

A dream + effort makes the believable into the achievable

Get your mind, finances and life organized

Marie Kondo’s method can’t help you

Suze Orman’s advice won’t help you

QVC never helped you

If you don’t know what YOU want

You

Only you

Not what some else is doing

Or what your family wants you to do

Or what your favorite influencer

Or idol

Or the one that came before you does

You

The key to getting mentally, financially and physically organized? Don’t beat yourself up for doing it in the past, but going forward understand that comparing yourself to others and what you perceive to be their life will only confuse you. Use the quiet time that we didn’t ask for but irreversibly got anyway right now to re-calibrate, reset, re-evaluate, and recharge. Shut down Instagram, get a planner, drink some water and find out what you think future-you would like to do and make some baby steps towards that goal. Before you know it, those micro-decisions could make bigger and better decisions and lead you down a path that even if you hit some snags, it will make you a better, more experienced and fulfilled you.

Good Luck!