081 Balancing Your Creative & Analytical Self
I want to know how to find balance if you are a creative or analytical person.
Well, let’s talk about symptoms if you have both creative and analytical sides. You saw that from me yesterday. I was overwhelmed, exhausted, and mentally tired.
After a good night’s sleep and a break from the computer, I re-energized.
And here are a couple of things that I learned I wanted to share, which is:
Find the balance.
If you have both skill sets, find the balance and make sure that you are feeding your soul. You are nurturing what you really like to do. If you have one and not the other, you will get some of those symptoms – tired, exhausted, crabby and grouchy. Well, I’ll be crabby and grouchy, and my husband will will agree.
You won’t be in alignment, you won’t be happy. So, find that balance, whatever that is. And it can’t always be in balance 100%. Make sure you’re clear on your goals and objectives and it comes down to your why.
Minimize what you don’t enjoy.
The other thing is I try to automate and minimize the things that I do not enjoy doing.
I like to expand on the things that I like to do. For me, I would much rather coach and talk with people – coach, consult, advise, mentor, train, facilitate. I want to have one-on-one conversations that help people in their business so they’re not stuck. Whatever you want to call it, that’s what I like to do.
And that’s why I’ve been focusing on those areas for my business, because I like them. I do them well. It feeds me. It feeds me to help the other business owners and leaders, and that’s what I enjoy doing. And so, if I can make sure that I’m finding that balance for myself, that’s outstanding.
Recognize your strengths
If you don’t have those skill sets and you may do them to get by. Or you don’t have the money, you haven’t found somebody or you’re stubborn (like myself) and doing it by yourself. Recognizing where your strengths are and what you like to do. And if you say that you can do everything and you like to do it. No, that’s not true.
Your body language will tell you differently. I saw this in one of my clients and they definitely skew one way. I could always tell by the body language and their mannerisms what area that they did not like. Then we found the person for them to hire. You could just see the like lightness in them.
If you aren’t feeling that lightness, you’re not doing the right area. You’re focusing on too much of the creative or the vision and not the analytical or the tactical (or however you want to term it) but you know what I’m talking about.