Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to be talking about how balance is crucial to personal development. Step with care and great tact and remember that life is a great balancing act. A quote by Dr. Seuss.

I want to start off by telling you a little story. In another land another time there was a

father and his young boy. Now the father wanted to teach the boy the highest lessons of wisdom about life.

So he knew a wise man, one of the wisest men in the realm,

and he wanted to send his boy there to learn from this wise man. So he did. And he told the boy, go and meet with the

wise man and ask him, what is the secret to happiness? And so the boy went and the boy wandered through the deserts for 40 days and 40 nights

To get to the palace of the wise man

Now the boys was surprised by this because this palace was high in the mountains and it was this giant opulent palace.

As he walked in he saw beautiful women and men and they were talking and there was these beautiful tapestries on the walls and everybody was busy and he was surprised because the boy thought that this was this worldly

this worldly wise man so he had to wait for two hours just to get an audience

with the wise man and the boy came up to him and said my father sent me here he said

you're the wisest man in the realm tell me the secret to happiness the wise man

looked at him and he said I'm too busy right now kid

Come back in two hours walk around make yourself a guest in my palace enjoy the grounds

Come back and and then we'll talk in two hours.

And so just as the boy is going off, the guy says, wait, wait, wait, wait,

wait, wait a minute, take this spoon and he hands him a spoon.

And then he takes two drops of oil

and puts them in the spoon.

He says, hold that spoon for me.

And when you come back in two hours, have the spoon and the oil.

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