At any point in time, you are juggling any number of balls.
The balls of profession, balls of health, family, friendships, integrity and honesty.
By nature, each ball has a different consistency and base materials of which they are made from. It is factually impossible to never drop a ball. Over the course of your lifetime, you are dropping each ball more than once. It is absolutely inevitable not to take your eyes of the balls at least once, thereby missing your opportunity to position yourself in the perfect spot to make the catch.
The professional ball. It is made of rubber. In case you drop it, there is a very high likelihood that it will bounce back. It may take a different trajectory, but it will bounce back nonetheless.
“You cannot do a good job, if a job is all you do” – Peter Drucker
If you focus solely on your career – if you become too one-sided of a juggler, imagine how your performance in keeping the other balls in the air will look like…
In different variations of fragility, the remaining balls that you juggle are those of family, freedom, sanity, self-actualization, compromise and the “orb of health”.
The latter is made is made of glass. You determine the thickness of this glass ball. Any number of things can happen in case you drop that ball. It may scratch, it may rebound just a fraction of an inch before it comes crashing down to crack, or in the worst case scenario, it may shatter.
To improve the hardness of your glass sphere, making it scratch or break proof, requires diligence, consistent work and care. The worse you treat your glazen sphere of health, the harsher the outcome of the impact. The more you pay attention to your breakable orb, the higher the likelihood that it will bounce back.