6/9/2010
Read MoreEvaluate Your Life Now! How Do You Rate In The 10 Major Categories? How To Fix...
We spend more time planning our latest electronic gadget purchase than planning our life! That can change in a few minutes. Here is a quick Survey to Evaluate Your Life! In a few minutes you can check where you are, and lock in on where you want to be! We assess, plan and implement business strategies at work -- how much more we should spend time to review and plan our life!
The following survey covers 10 key areas of our lives. It asks: 1) how are you doing in each of the 10 life categories? What is your priority for each of them? Where are the disconnects -- the big gaps? What should you start working on this week and this month?
In my Living On Purpose workbook, used by 1000's of people of all ages since 1992, the following are 10 important categories of life, in 3 groups of 3, plus 1:
Personal Triad:
1. Health: how am I doing in physical well-being?
2. Personal: how am I doing in my psychological well being?
3. Recreation: how rewarding are my interests and hobbies?
External Triad:
4. Family: how healthy are my relationships as a child, sibling, parent, and relative?
5. Friends: how stimulating and fulfilling are my important relationships with others?
6. Community: how satisfied am I with my involvement with my local and global interests?
Practical Triad:
7. Financial: how am I doing in terms of present and future financial requirements?
8. Household: how do I feel about my physical domestic home/environment?
9. Career: how am I doing the arena of my profession, development, and career?
Center:
10. Spiritual: To what degree am I participating in and fulfilling my ultimate life purpose as a human being?
EXERCISE:
1. Go through each of the 10 categories and grade how important each of the 10 categories is on a 10-point scale:
Example: 10 = Utmost Important; 8 = Very Important; 6 = Important ; 4 = Somewhat Important; 2 = Not Very Imp't; 0 = Unimportant
2. Next, go through each of the 10 categories and grade how well you are doing in each of the 10 Categories:
Example: 10 = Extraordinarily Well; 8 = Very Well; 6 = Pretty Well; 4 = Mediocre; 2 = Poorly; 0 = Very Poorly
3. Now, compare each Category's "How Important Score" with "How Well Score". Look for the biggest gaps:
a. What are your biggest gaps between Importance and Performance? Which one do you want to focus on? Why? How?
b. Which Categories are in alignment between Importance and How You Are Doing? Nice Work!
c. In which Categories are you doing much better than their importance? No Issues Here! Cruise control.
4. What actions can you do in this next week to make an improvement in your Key Category? Tell someone you trust about what you have decided to do as an accountability/reminding partner!
5. If you really want this to get interesting, go through each of the 10 categories and put down how much time you are spending on each item. Is there a disconnect between a Category's Importance, Performance, and Time? What can you do to align?
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