Your life can seem overly full today as you rush from one obligation to the next in what may feel like a futile attempt to get it all done. If you are facing the prospect of multiple duties and chores, you may feel entirely overwhelmed and more than ready to retreat from your responsibilities. You can ease your sense of unease and regain your calm, however, by taking control of your schedule and making time to address your personal needs. Even if you can only devote a small space in your agenda to seeing to your well-being today, you can nonetheless work toward achieving a state of equilibrium.

Our lives are often busier than we would like them to be, so actively seeking out downtime can help us make certain that we have enough time to relax and adequately prepare ourselves for the challenges that lie ahead. Balance is not an innate quality of the human experience--it is something we must cultivate through our choices and behaviors. We need to incorporate it into our lives whenever we see we have an opening in our schedules that will allow us to nurture ourselves. In doing so, we learn to prioritize our days and come to see the true value of our time. No matter how busy our lives become, we can take comfort in the fact that we will never be without opportunities to wind down. When you are willing to set aside time to relax and care for yourself today, you will never feel overwhelmed by your schedule.