Does Balance Actually Exist?

Is there such a thing as balance when it comes to time, work, and money? It seems like I always have more of one than the others and trying find a way to have all three in equal measure is more elusive than one would think.

There have been times in my life when I had a whole lot of time and little work and little money. There have been other times when I've had a whole lot of work, but very little time. And of course there have been a few times when I've had abundance but not time to do anything but work.

The times when I have lots of time, I'm wishing for work and money.

The times when I've had an abundance of work and good money, I've wished I had the time to enjoy the fruits of my labor.

Then there was this one time that the work projects completed and new projects hadn't started and so I spent about 6 weeks freaking out worrying about the next gig and the money that would come from that gig. Instead of enjoying the time I had after a really long and successful project I was fretting. It wasn't until about a month into the six weeks that it occurred to me that I had been so busy that I kept saying, "If only I had time I would..." or "It sure would be nice to have the time to..." and here I was sitting on so much of that wished for time and was I enjoying it?

Nope!

I was wasting it away.

So at that moment I told myself the next time things slowed down I wouldn't worry because God has a funny way of working things out. That doesn't mean my first instinct is to begin to worry, but then I remind myself that these are gifts and delivered wishes and I should be grateful and take advantage of it.