Balance life

I was scolded by my mother for being too busy — too busy to relax, too busy to visit, too busy to enjoy life.

Mary Kay salespersons are encouraged to plan out their calendar using colored markers — blue for work, pink for family, yellow for community and church.

No one color should dominate the others.

If your calendar has more yellow than pink, you’re probably spending too much time away from your family. If your calendar is so blue it only has room for one or two yellow marks, you’re spending too much time at work.

Life needs to be a balance of color.

“Life isn’t an emergency. We take our own goals so seriously we forget to have fun along the way.... The first step in becoming a more peaceful person is to have the humility to admit that, in most cases, you’re creating your own emergencies.” — Richard Carlson