A dozen leaders from a collection of student groups attended a Nov. 19 Leadership for Lunch program in the Moseley Center where the Center for Leadership held a workshop on the role of balance in achieving a healthy life.
“Humans have strived for balance for as far as we go back,” Peeples said. “We can see that in many ways in both cultures and religions.”
His five lessons for students:
1.) “It’s all an illusion.” Learn to enjoy finding balance but remember that it’s not a permanent state of being.
2.) Know thyself. Balance differs for each person. And people can not achieve balance without a vision.
3.) Time is of the essence. “The nature of being balance changes over one’s life,” Peeples said.
4.) The world is a web. When a person loses his ability to balance the demands of life, from a career to health to families, it affects others. “Achieving balance is not selfish,” Peeples said. It is OK to step away from commitments if it helps a person reclaim their balance.
5.) “Get back up.” Because you can never fully achieve balance, you are always losing balance, Peeples said. The key is to never give up the quest.
If interested in attending future Leadership for Lunch workshops, email the Center for Leadership at orgdevelopment@elon.edu.