ig: in what area of your life are you off course?

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1. Organizing your life

I don’t think I’m alone in being slightly scattered and sloppy about certain areas of my life.

5. Move toward your goals every single day

How many days go by where you did nothing to move toward your big goals?

Conclusion

It’s really easy to get off course in life. Like airplanes, we constantly need to make course corrections.

1. Organizing Your Life

I don’t think I’m alone in being slightly scattered and sloppy about certain areas of my life.

5. Move Toward Your Goals Every Single Day

How many days go by where you did nothing to move toward your big goals?

Conclusion

It’s really easy to get off-course in life. Like airplanes, we constantly need to make course-corrections.

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1. Organizing Your Life

I don’t think I’m alone in being slightly scattered and sloppy about certain areas of my life. Life is busy.

3. Tracking Important Metrics

Getting organized and investing in your future are futile if you’re not tracking. In regards to the most important areas of your life, you need to be on top of what’s going on.

5. Move Toward Your Goals Every Single Day

How many days go by where you did nothing to move toward your big goals? Probably too many.

1 Compulsive consuming

Often times we consume to distract ourselves from sadness, madness, dissatisfaction or some other not-so-fun emotions. We overeat, overwork, do drugs, binge drink, buy uselessly, endlessly watch TV, play video games or are 24/7 connected to social media to forget how unhappy we are with ourselves and the life that we’ve created.

2 Long-term complaining

I had a phase where I was really unhappy at work, like soul-suckily unhappy. I had noticed that I wasn’t happy, and was passively looking for a new job, but didn’t think too much of it. Well, until I ran into an old friend I hadn’t seen in about 2 years and she said, “Oh, you’re still at that job? I thought you hated it there.”

4 Higher than usual self-doubt

Inevitably, when you’re out of whack with your life path, you end up feeling shit about yourself and doubting everything that you do.

6 Your body is reacting badly

Our bodies react to the things that we feel. If you feel sad, lost or as though you’re living a lie, you may be able to hide that shit from others, but there’s no hiding those feelings from your body. It feels everything.

7 Easily annoyed and stressed out

Becoming especially short with those especially close to you is a clear sign that something isn’t right. Or speedily going from 0 to 100 on the super stressed life scale, can also be an indicator.

When you spend your time, can you sort each activity into one of the main life areas?

When you spend your time you can sort each activity into one of the main life areas. You can also sort all the outomes you have in your life into one of the main life areas. In this way, life areas become a helpful framework for tracking and meauring success in each area of you life.

What to do when you are unhappy?

If you are unhappy, have a look at each of your life areas and see which feel incomplete. Ask yourself what you would need to do to improve each life area. List any life areas that you think you need to work on now and why. Develop vision statements and goals for each life area.