Living a balanced life is a key component to maintaining holistic health and wellness. Here are the ten most effective strategies I have discovered along my path to help create a life of stability and balance.

1. Detach from specific outcomes and release the need to control.
2. Empathize and show compassion for yourself and others who are suffering.
3. Simplify your life and get back to the basics.
4. Quiet your inner and outer world.
5. Live in honor and maintain relationships of integrity.
6. Perform daily holistic self-care -- mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual.
7. Improve yourself and learn from mistakes.
8. Trust in God and a higher order of events.
9. Express gratitude and humility for all that you have, all that you are, and all that is yet and meant to be.
10. Be responsible and organized in all life areas.