Peggy's Musings

What’s going on now?

The dawning of a new year (and new decade), is a good time to reflect on your life and see what, if any, changes you might want to make. Lots of people make New Year’s resolutions, setting goals at the beginning of the year. But all too often they fail to do a good assessment of the current conditions of their life.

It’s fairly simple to come up with some particular goal in one area of life, often related to losing weight or being more successful in our work, but what’s really needed is to look at ALL the various aspects of our lives to see where we stand and where we want to go. It’s the accumulation of our degree of satisfaction with a wide range of things that makes the most difference in our lives. However, it’s hard to accurately determine your goals for the future unless you’re clear about where you are now.

So below is a thought-provoking set of questions that may help you get more clarity about what is working in your life, what needs tweaking, and what needs major work. These questions are excerpted from our LifeDesign Workbook.

NOTE: You can download a Free Digital Copy of the Workbook by clicking on "immediate download" on the above page. (Also, at the bottom of this page is a link for reading the Table of Contents and Introduction - as well as a link to an online "Quality of Life Checkup" that you can submit to receive scoring results.)

WHAT’S GOING ON NOW…

1. With time?
Are you in control of your time or controlled by schedules?
Are you pressed for time or have time on your hands?
Do you think most about the past, the present, or the future?

2. With people?
Are your family relationships satisfying or strained?
Are your friendships meaningful or superficial?
Is your social life a pleasure or a burden?

3. With places?
How do you feel about your physical environment...
—at home?
—at work?
—geographically?

4. With things?
How important are material things to you?
Is your desire for things in balance with your ability to acquire them?
Do you spend more time maintaining your things than enjoying them?

5. With ideas and information?
Are you in touch with what’s going on in the world?
Are you stimulated by new ideas?
Do you make use of books for ongoing intellectual stimulation?

6. With your sense of yourself?
Do you mostly praise or criticize yourself?
Do you feel in control of yourself or a victim of circumstances?

7. With your responsibilities?
Are you in conflict over your various responsibilities?
Does one part of your life dominate the others?
Do you do some things just for yourself?

8. With your activities?
Do organizations and institutions play an important part in your life?
What do you do for “fun?”
Do you choose your own activities or go along with whatever comes your way?

9. With your body?
Do you take care of your body and feel good about it?
Do you live in a basically “healthy” way?
Do you take the time and energy needed to stay physically fit?

10. With your spiritual life?
Do you allow enough quiet time to reflect on what’s meaningful to you?
Do you feel a gap between your internal life and the life you’re living?
Are you at peace with your core values and beliefs?

Get a Quality of Life Checkup:

To do an online checkup on your current life satisfaction (which will be scored and the results sent to you), go to: Quality of Life Checkup.

You can learn more about the LifeDesign Workbook by reading the Table of Contents and Introduction.

Note: You can get a Free digital copy of the LifeDesign Workbook (or order a printed copy from Amazon.com) by going to: LifeDesign Workbook.

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NOTE: If you enjoy these blog posts, please check out the list of 107 similar 'musings' (and read 8 of them) included in my book Musings on Life.

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