Balance as the Key

This of course might apply to ballroom dancing but since I’m in Canada skiing, I’m referring to the balance in ones life from investing oneself in many diverse activities.   Most of my intelligent friends and colleagues have succeeded in their careers to the extent that as time has passed toward their retirement, very few have the creativity or are brave enough to try new things, become a student rather than remain a teacher, and consider new avenues not considered in order to enrich ones life, to stimulate parts of the brain that have been ignored or unused, parts of the body that have not been needed for balance either in the physical or mental sense.  Clearly, I’m just at the beginning of this process.......