I’ve been busy working on developing a programme, getting very focused and totally enjoying
the process. But something struck me when I looked at my ‘to do’ list; where were all the other things that were important to me? Where was my family down time, socialising time? What was I doing for me, not my business?
Life is busy and it is so easy to get drawn into one thing. Whilst being focused on set tasks is important, it is equally important to identify what other things you need to be doing in other areas of your life. I don’t refer to it as work/life balance, just balancing your life!
So up to the sky you go to take an overhead view of your life. The Wheel of Life is a great tool to use to evaluate the balance or lack of balance you are currently achieving. It is a visual representation that identifies:
- The areas of your life where you are satisfied and giving the amount of time you wish to
- The areas of your life where you are not satisfied with the time you give to them and need to consider giving more time to
- The areas of your life where you may not be giving time to, however, you do not feel the need to prioritise them
To get the most from the exercise consider the following:
- Select 6-8 areas of your life that are important to you (social, family, husband/wife, children, spiritual, well-being, career/business, friends, education, community work, etc)
- Allocate a place on the wheel for each of the selected areas
- On a scale of 1-10 where 1 is completely unsatisfied and 10 is completely satisfied, score each area in terms of how much time you currently give to it
- Then join up the dots or lines of each area to create, what is likely to be, a rather odd shape. As you look at the joined up lines/dots, do you see balance or in-balance? Are you achieving the level of balance you truly desire in each area? If not, what areas need to be addressed and what would be your ideal score in each area
- Also consider areas where you might be giving large portions of time and maybe wish to reduce them – these may be draining you and leaving you unsatisfied with life
- The follow on is to identify what you would need to do to fill/reduce the gaps from the time you currently give to the time you’d like to
- Set some RUMBA goals to rectify the imbalances
Wheel of Life Diagram
Live Blissfully!
YvonneB
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A catalyst for change, Yvonne Bignall is a breath of fresh air in the extraordinary way she helps women 50+ to reconnect with life & their innate power through radical self-care, guilt-free!
She supports, encourages, and inspires women to prioritise their health, one bitesize action at a time. Her work is challenging as it navigates through difficult conversations, listening & observing how women’s health issues have been:
❊ Undermined
❊ Under-resourced &
❊ Swept under the carpet
She helps women to recognise & unpack old scripts that still (sadly enough) tell them that their value derives from their level of caregiving of others, their output. The truth is it is the input, the ability to resource self, which provides women with the energy required to realise their true potential.
Along with her team, she explores the thoughts, behaviour & habits, often born out of guilt, gender expectations, and reinforced narratives, with curiosity (not judgment), discarding the unhelpful, whilst reclaiming innate power through the creation of new patterns, restoring a sense of self, outside of societal expectations. In her opinion, this allows women to:
✔ Develop an elevated level of self-awareness
✔ Build / rebuild their confidence & self-belief
✔ Value all of who they are and invest time in who they want to be at their best
A self-care warrior, an encourager & inspirer, Yvonne is today an award-winning Women’s Health Advocate, Published Author, and an International Presenter. She is also a Radio Show Host and a Podcaster.
Yvonne is focused on building a community of women, www.PermissionToThrive.online, who are ready to reclaim their right to self-care, guilt-free, and who prioritise their health without apology, role-modeling behaviour & habits that inform generations to come of their true value.
She also advocates for self-care over burnout in the workplace, delivering practical webinars in the corporate space. In her own words, “It is time for employees to prioritise their wellbeing. How will they deliver their best work without it?”
One of her favourite quotes comes from Eleanor Brown, ‘Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel’
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