Balance

What is wellness? Is it getting enough sleep? Living a balanced life? Well being? 

One of the things (I think) that people struggle with is having balance in their lives. We're taught to go to school, get a job, work until we're in our mid-60's, and THEN retire and live life. Why aren't we taught to always live? Why wait until we're 65?

I'm going to go with wellness being defined as having balance. Balance between work and personal life, and most importantly, doing something that you enjoy. With my job at the hospital, I work most weekends, am sleep deprived, don't eat as well as I should, don't exercise as much as I should, don't see as many friends as I would like to see, don't travel as much as I would like to, the list goes on and on. At the end of the day, I love what I do. I love helping people, but I think I would love it more if things were more balanced. See, it's good that I'm having these brilliant realizations before I dive into graduate education. 

As it says in the "about me" section of my blog, I am an Independent Distributor with Shop.com. This business is based on transferring your buying habits from buying in stores to buying through your own website and thus economically connecting households. I do this part time, in addition to working at the hospital.

My website www.shop.com/JuliaS has 40 million products, and has all of the stores which you're normally shopping at - Target, Best Buy, Gap, Victoria's Secret, etc etc. but now you're getting paid to shop. Yes, you read that correctly. Any customer can sign up to get free and unlimited cashback on things you're already buying, and you get 0.5% cashback forever on anyone that you refer and what they buy. 

My personal favorite is Drugstore.com because when you go through my site, you get 4% cashback, drugstore.com gives an additional 5% cashback to use towards future purchases, and you get free shipping on orders over $25. Honestly, does it get better than that?? I submit that it does not.

How does this factor into a balanced life? My business is all about the "2-3 year plan" rather than the "45 year plan." Why work 45 years for someone else's financial success, working 40+ hours/week, when you could work 8-12 hours/week for 2-3 years and HELP yourself and others make a significant ongoing income. Everyone has 24 hours in a day whether you're making $30,000/year or $250,000/year. 

Guys, work smarter not harder. Do the things you love and help others during this down economy.