One need not be hardheaded or rigid about living according to one selected life plan, but, nevertheless, one should construct a wise plan and then generally follow it.
It is no secret that I promote the strenuous life as did Teddy
Roosevelt. One should self-realize one's potential while making a living and living an ordinary, everyday lifestyle.
I promote generally maintaining the balance between making money to support one's family and doing all the mundane chores that fill up daily life, while adjoining this carrying out of basic duties with leading an artistic life of adventure and original output at what one is brilliant and productive at.
Some wise thinker once advised that we have our feet on the ground while our head is up in the clouds. Being grounded keeps one focused, practical, humbled and practical. The passionate, fierce pure-in-concentration-and-energy-applied artist or idealist can do things, the fruit of which are destructive to society as her greed, cruelty, ruthlessness, fact distortion and unreasonableness accept no limits or restraint.
The life lived by that idealist is not only without balance, but she has thrown it under the bus. As her self-esteem plummets, her self-loathing can drive her to execute acts of great evil. In her hubris and arrogance, she was unable to heed God's injunction to maintain the balance.
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