Free Tool: How to Assess Your Health and Happiness
Free Tool: How to Quickly and Easily Assess Your Health and Happiness
If you've ever been involved in a project at work, you know that part of any good project is a review process. The review is a way of highlighting what went right (because we want to repeat that again), and what went wrong (because we want to avoid that or improve upon it).
Rarely though, do we do a review for our lives. In fact, we rarely sit back and reflect upon any aspect of our life to make any lasting improvements on it.
And so, we make the same mistakes, or focus on areas of our lives at the detriment of others until we feel miserable and can't take anymore.
This process highlighted here is a super simple way to see where you are putting your time and attention to in your life at the moment. It let's you reflect on where you are currently in life so you can make changes if need be, as a way to bring balance into your life, or to stop avoiding doing the things that will actually make us happy.
The Health Snapshot
Exercise: You have 10 points total to assign to the four areas of your life below. Assign the points based upon the time or attention you are putting into each of these. Only whole numbers can be used. For example: 2.5.
Add the numbers into the quadrants without analysing the exercise too much. Be honest and open to the feedback you'll receive from this exercise.
SNAPSHOT - Current
Work/Professional Career: Think of this as the time you spend at work, plus the time you spend on calls or emails that are work related.
Family, Friends & People: This is the time you spend with your family, friends or people generally, distraction free (replying to work emails at the dinner table with your family, is NOT family time).
Training and Health: This is time focused on training/exercise/movement. This can be done with others.
Rest, Recovery and Reflection: This is time spent away from work with a focus on rest and recovery, but no focus on work. It can include things like massage, meditation, reading a book or journaling. It does not include sleep if no process is followed to optimise quality of sleep.
It Starts With Awareness
The 10 points are your life. At least they represent your life to 100%. This is important to understand, because despite our (very useless) sayings of "give it 110%", you can't give more than 100% percent of your time or attention.
We have 24 hours of each day to use as we choose.
This exercise also gives a simple and clear way to show if things are out of balance.
The Snapshot is aimed at helping you understand where you're putting your time and attention, but this doesn't mean you're wrong in any way. What should the Snapshot show? 2 to 3 points for each and every quadrant? A massive imbalance in one with little to none in the others?
This exercise is an awareness tool, but not a commentary on what you should be doing at this point in your life.
There are times in your life when you want to be out of balance. For example you might be starting a new business and need to commit plenty of hours towards growing that business. In that case, you might be happy to invest a little less time in your training. You might even be single and living by yourself. This would likely bring even more imbalance into your life. What if you've moved to a new city to start work? What if you've taken 6 weeks off for a family holiday? In each case the Snapshot may show a massive imbalance, but it's a imbalance you're comfortable to experience at this time in your life.
For many of us, it's obvious that work will take a massive amount of our time each day and week. But if most of our time is only doing work, how long can that be maintained before burnout or be overwhelmed?
Things to Focus On
If you do this exercise and find yourself putting little to no times in certain areas, ask yourself if this is okay. If you want to become healthy, and yet are putting a 0 or 1 in that box, what result do you expect? How can you shift that to a number more aligned with what you want it to be?
Do the exercise again, this time filling out the Snapshot for what you want your life to look like:
SNAPSHOT - Planned
You can take this even further. For example, if you're working on a project, you might want your Snapshot to be skewed towards Work/Professional Career for 6 months, knowing you've promised the family a summer holiday or maybe you've simply committed to only take one project on per year. In that case you might do this snapshot twice a year, or even quarterly to understand what things will be like for the coming few months and to better communicate to others the time you can give to them.
Interestingly, many people would argue that you're not going to be successful unless you commit a huge amount of time to your work or career. These quadrants aren't to be looked at as separate "silos" to become better at, but instead they are the ingredients for a happier and healthier life. This means then that success on your career requires you dedicate some time to relationships and people, your health and your rest and recovery so you can achieve more in your career.
As part of the Intake Interview process here at PEAK Strength & Nutrition, and for current clients during their monthly one on one lifestyle consultations, this will be an exercise we'll do together as a quick way to assess where we can make improvements to their happiness and health overall as part of their time here.
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