Check this out. This is how I live my life...

Www.new-oceans.co.uk/new/wheel2.htm

"Perhaps intuitively, great leaders and successful individuals throughout time have known the importance of having balance in their lives. Instead of living to work, they worked to live."

That sent my shut-the-fuck-up-o-meter into a fit.


Peace,

kowalski

Yea, found that link on my phone as it looked about right. Actually trying it on my pc it didn't work.

I like to draw it on a piece of paper and join the spokes.
The dramatic bullshit text is to be ignored!

wURd!


Peace,

kowalski

I very much dislike this sort of thing, it implies that balancing these things will be what makes you most happy and that certain influences are not stronger than others. For example I am unhappy with my current level of security, but increasing it would not make me happier, if anything the opposite, because I value new experience and freedom higher than security and they help me fulfil many of my life objectives. Also these areas are broken down into different parts which cannot be compared numerically and overlap.

My theory is sustainable happiness is created within 5 areas:

Relationships
Health
Having and pursuing targets
Accepting and not being held back by the past
New experiences


Meeting your basic needs (does not bring happiness but not fulfilling can take it away)

Quite insightful.

It reflects my dissatisfaction with my achievements in my career, a constant source of my stress. This is the year that changes.

Really? Knowing you Jaz that suprises me

I honestly think this is the one that should stress you least. I do think you should strive to achieve your goals, but since I've come to realise that money is stupid, I can't get "stressed", per se, about my career.

Maybe stress is the wrong word. But I do feel I am underachieving.

This dissatisfaction for example is the result of your past (what you've achieved up to now) by not giving a fuck about that and looking to the future and progressing with new targets you will become happier. It's not about how much "balance" you have in other areas of your life or how much you concentrate on one thing. This can be highlighted by looking at people who are very happy to be in the same achievement situation as yourself with a similar "balance".

Quite good, made me realise how far I've come compared to a few years ago.

It should also say that a higher score in one area also has culmantive effect in other areas.