Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about balance — not the yoga-pose kind, but the kind ambitious people rarely talk about. The kind where you’re trying to build something that matters, and every day feels like a tangle of micro-tasks, competing priorities, and inputs that don’t always lead to the outputs you hoped for.
I fall into this space often. I care deeply about the work I’m doing, so I tend to keep pushing — creating, solving, strategizing, swimming upstream in whatever way I can. Some weeks that’s great fuel. Other weeks it feels like urgency is driving, and everything else gets blurry: rest, perspective, joy, the quiet parts of life that make the work sustainable.
This week was one of the latter. I kept pushing, trying different inputs to force a particular outcome — until I hit the wall.
I closed the laptop. I stopped trying to wrangle the universe. I went outside. I laughed with my boo. I rot in front of the TV. I let the day be the day.
And here’s the funny part: once I stopped forcing it, pieces started aligning on their own. The thing I was trying to muscle into existence is gradually making its way to me — without the muscle.
It reminded me that balance isn’t about doing everything at once or doing everything perfectly. It’s about knowing when to lean in and when to let go; when to swim and when to float. It’s the awareness that stepping back isn’t quitting — sometimes it’s the only way forward.
I don’t have balance figured out (not even close), but I’m learning to recognize the moments when the universe is asking for a pause rather than a push. And that feels like a good start.
— Pree
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