Balance.

Having the mentality to have balance in your lives will go a long way for you in the problems that you face everyday.

Every once in awhile-- people are going to have bad days due to them. It is just the way of things. But there are ways to prepare for that. One of the best ways to prepare for the battles that you face is having a great sense of balance in your lives.

If you realize that there are more to life than just getting through a day and drag along, then you probably have some sense in balance with your life. If you live life being the change that others want to see in you rather than the change that you want to present yourself with unto others, you will have to answer for the battles that you will fight, some sooner rather than later. It is not the work that becomes you nor does the money that you make. What counts more in this life, the money you make or the time you spend? That is the big question at hand. People rather make more money than to spend more time doing the things that actually counts more to you, and mean more to you. Money may be a way to live, but how can one ever live, if they do not fully have the time to do the things that make us feel alive? My opinion is that the time you spend here is worth millions more than the money you make.

"If you realize that the key to life is building yourself in the light of understanding what your individuality is, and the bridges that you build with every relationship you have, the more you can distance yourself to the stress that money causes."

                                                                                       -Jacob Williams, Money is Stress: July 2012

Having a sense of balance in things can really set the battles that you have on an easier ground. People think that they fight their battles alone. While this is not entirely true, you do not fight battles alone, because God is there with you, lifting you past the battles that he knows that you can get past. I may not be there for my friends battles in life, but it is only because I know, that God is with them, lifting their hearts to make them stronger. If must have a lot of happiness in life on one in of the balance. You do not always need happiness to conquer these battles that you fight each and every day, but having the majority of your balance shifted towards the happiness in all things in your life, will make things a lot more easier for you to handle as they come. If you do not have enough happiness in one side of that balance, I can tell you that you will struggle no matter what the consequences are. Happiness is the key to all things, but one most know that happiness is not in everything, which is why you need to balance things. 

Suicides usually happen because they are more depressed, and on one side of that balance there is more negativity going on. If you eliminate that negativity, you wont have much negativity to deal with. People will help you get out if you seek the support using the right approach to people. Approaching people negatively will only make things worse. Sure, you will get help, but more out of the fear of your friends and your family than the love from them. 

"Money is not what makes a person, it is their heart and character that does." 

                                                                 -Jacob Williams, Money is temporary, but life is not. July 2012

People are dependent on money. If you make money your whole lives, you are missing the point why God gave you life in the first place. Do not allow money to dictate your lives, and cause you the unnecessary stresses that it causes to others. Sure, you need money to make a living, but you do not need money to live. You need air, blood, a heart and mind to live. Otherwise you do not exist. I think it is crazy that so many people put so much stress over something that doesn't count in your life. If you die, how much you make is irrelevant to how much that you have done. You may earn money by doing, but it is what you did that counts, not what you earned. People will remember you more by the things that you do, than the money that you earn.

"The amount of things you can buy with money is almost endless, because one thing money cannot buy is more time."

You will always feel rich in the things that money can never buy. Cause it can't by love, and it cannot buy moments or time. Allow those become the factors in your joy and pursuit of happiness. Only you know the answers to your own solutions, because it is only you who knows yourself better than anyone else ever can. Good things take time to think about, so think, but do not stress. Think about the things that you want in this life. Take notice that the fact that Rome was not built in a day, and things take time to develop in every aspect of your lives. Hold on to what you have now, your happiness, and get rid of the things that try to overtake the balance in your happiness, because you will always need majority of it to overcome some things.

"If you notice the feelings of joy and peace that instills you deep inside your heart, then also you must also know that it takes someone with heart to fight the battles that they have."

                                                                  -Jacob Williams: Having heart conquers all things, July 2012

Finally, Never let money take away from the time that you have. Make other things more important than money draining the time that you want to have. Because in the end, you will regret not spending your time wisely in the things that you do, and will be bitter that your world was created around making money rather than spending time.

God is Love

J.