Balancing

“What does it mean that success is as dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, your position is shaky.
When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.” –Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tzu (Stephen Mitchell translation)

“Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge – and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.” -Philippe Petit

“There is a time for being ahead,
a time for being behind;
a time for being in motion,
a time for being at rest;
a time for being vigorous,
a time for being exhausted;
a time for being safe,
a time for being in danger.” –Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tzu (Stephen Mitchell translation)

Don’t strive for perfect balance. It’s almost impossible to achieve and even if you do, it’s fleeting at best.

Instead, strive for balancing. (This assumes process and a constancy of effort.)

If you do, you’ll be much more open to whatever fate or fortune sends your way. You’ll recognize and be okay that sometimes life is a sprint and sometimes it’s a crawl. But whatever it is, you’ll adjust, you’ll iterate, you’ll dance with it all.