Wheels of life or how your stress and time pie is cut.

This sun dial at Ely Cathedral has probably seen all the emotions, follies and time considerations of man.
Photo taken by M'reen

Wheels of life or how your time pie is cut. M'reen

First draw a simple circle and divide it into 8 equal segments and label each segment

1.  Spouse/partner          2.  Children          3.  Work                    4.  Home

5.  Social life                    6.  Health             7.  Family/friends       8.  Problem/s

Now give each segment a subjective satisfaction score by

putting a number in each segment that represents your general satisfaction in this area:

0 being not enough > 10 being just enough.

Then shade in how much you feel that number applies to you today 

or just now after a comment has been made or a thought thunkJ

The Wheel of Life.

You may wish to draw multiple wheels or you may find using

Label the segment and fill in your satisfaction level.

Choose a category or make one up. Do the ones you’ve missed.

You might want to draw a wheel for X years/situation ago and one for where you would like to be.

children   /   own    /    others	home /  house	opportunity
charity	habits	look after / self / others
change	health	personal growth
danger	image / personal / public	relationship / self /  others
energy	joy	relaxation
education	kindness /  self / others	security / self / relationship/ things
entertainment	love / self / others	social
home/ physical/ work	money	serenity/ self/ family /work/ others
fun	maturity	sport
family  /  you are in / came from	new	travel

  

It would be interested to make your own categories, make more segments if you want.

Leave some blank one so that you can add categories.

For example if you are working on weight you could do a new wheel

on your weighing morning once a week for 4 weeks.

Things like: feeling> thin days, happy, optimistic, relaxed, patient, sleeping better, more forgiving of self and others, less stressed, don’t notice irritations as much, thinking nice things about myself, 

more creative, giving myself time, etc. You could list these along the long side of a page and put 

a little bar thermometer above each ranging from 0 to 10, 0= this doesn’t happen in your life 

to 10 I’m full of these feelings/skills.

Research shows that filling in a chart gets 55% better results.

Now make a 24 hour clock and guess how much time you spend per day doing whatever.

Or a week clock and guess how much time you spend sleeping, working etc.

Then actually find out what you really do and you may be surprised at the results.

And find that you can, in fact, squeeze in some e.g. exercise with this awareness.

Or you could create a hierarchy of needs chart and this is not a wheel

but more like an ordered bullet point scale.

Perhaps you’d like to check out my sister blogs:

www.innermindworking.blogspot.com            gives many ways for you to work with the stresses of life

www.turbochargedreading.blogspot.com       describes the steps to reading in the way your mind prefers

www.happyartaccidents.blogspot.com          just for fun

www.turbochargedreading.com                    for your advanced reading techniques

To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.

The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”

Time management – some practical options.

                                                   Photo by M'reen

Time management – some practical options.
M'reen Hunt

To find out how to establish your hierarchy of needs as mentioned in the previous article

scroll down the index on the left to hierarchy of needs as the single word ‘hierarchy’ is mentioned

in a number of articles thus demonstrating its importance.

To find out the validity of arguments between your heart and head and to bring them into full agreement as mentioned in the previous article go to www.innermindreading.blogspot.com 

and find How do I know if I have a problem and how big it is? This will help you find the sneakiest of blocks and block that block or why not eliminate it altogether with the other skills offered there?

Back to the blog below: Time Management and The Twitter Trap.

There seems to be some disagreement between the best times for tweeting, I’ve read between

1 and 5am local time and also the lunch period; however, if you are personally sending tweets 

then it is the best time for your physical, emotional and social health that is important.

So many people read and do not write down, that is record, their activity; yet it is an activity all the professionals advise – so why ignore it? Time management has many gremlins with various names

whether you are self employed or the employee it affects productivity and that is ‘the bottom line’. Resolving your procrastination, priorities, ‘can’t do’s’ and ‘don’t like’s’ or I’m not consciously aware 

that there is a problem, etc may need a few minutes work on a daily basis until all aspects are brought into line for your benefit.

As they say, ‘if you want something doing, ask a busy man’!

Just taking time off to stretch has so many benefits. You physically vitalise your body oxygenating your spine by puffing up the little disks between your vertebrae; oxygenating your brain by giving your little grey cells some R&R and importantly you rest your eyes. I have proved to myself that working for 20 minutes, standing up and patting your alternate knee with your hand or elbow brings both sides of your brain into an active working arrangement while giving your body a little workout and you a little laugh 

if you imagine someone watching you – a little laugh is worth emotional gold.

Who is your favourite film star, famous person or little laugh work out partner? Work with these great people from the present or past, dress up accordingly; Yogi Bear comes to mind, fun is the important factor. You will not lose concentration; in fact, if you have something really important or something that is going to take many hours your quality of work will be maintained throughout this period and improved as you will have had time to think and consider.

Now, having reminded myself I’ve cleaned off my white board and will create a timetable – how do you think an airport manages? My tweets need a scheduled flight, even the private plane has to wait!

A reward is mentioned. At the end of your working day send an email to a friend, have a reciprocal arrangement with a colleague and if no such is available post an energetic one (a thought one)

to someone important to you either personally important or to your business idol.

Your tasks have a tri-part schedule:

1.       What needs to be done now – today.

2.       What needs some active preparation for to-morrow.

3.       What needs thinking about for the future.

4.       What a forth? Yes, the stand up, the reward - the confirmation that you have succeeded.

5.       Thinking time. Build in down time, take the train as opposed to driving, take the scenic route, build in time to read some recreational magazines, go for a fresh air walk, or do whatever lets your mind drift without pressure. Not once or twice a week but built in on a daily basis.

6.       If you don’t charge the 3-5 minutes you need in down time as important                                    then question why you don’t value yourself or your activity.

If you find yourself creating numerous tick charts, then what are you preventing yourself from doing?

If something has value for you but takes far too long to complete and just lays there on the to-do pile (your accounts?) can you find an easier more time effective way to achieve your needs?

Is your important preparation work for the future giving value in the present?

That is do you spend enough time and effort earning money today and the rest of the week?

*Sometimes I see something during the day that will make a good future blog

so I stash it in a potential folder and I keep a minimum number of these on hand.

The trick is to ensure that this time is genuinely allocated to a planned and timed period.

Is it efficient to produce your own blogs? I’ll put this time in the enjoyment rating column.

I spend time shortening the lines to readable units rather than smartly justifying the lines.

Is this justifiable time or a perfectionist time waster? These are questions that need to be asked.

Find and Work on emotional blocks	Time taken to Post blog	Time to Review Tomorrow’s	Time Searching Future blogs	Break each 20 minutes	ENJOYMENT RATING
A very surprised YES!!! 09 minutes	09 minutes	07 minutes	*none	yes	2
YES!!! 20 minutes SUD 7>1	09		*none	yes	5
YES!!! 20 minutes SUD 3>0	14		*none	forgot!	4
xx None	forgot!	16	*none	yes	10 100% my work

A very surprised YES!!! Consciously I enjoy blogging; subconsciously I must have had some reservations.

SUD = Subjective Unit of Distress on a scale of 10 > 0. Issues come in many layers or have many aspects or components.

I needed to work on this again as I have embarked on a complete lifestyle change and am having to re-write my life script.

The explanations of my emotional work are not the object of this blog and can be found at www.innermindreading.blogspot.com

^xx That doesn’t mean I’m home free, there will be other issues in other areas that belong to my overall aims.

*I don’t believe that I can count this time as preparation work in the same way a photographer cannot count the hours and weeks

  spent waiting and preparing to catch a particular shot.

Perhaps you’d like to checkout my sister blog www.innermindreading.blogspot.com

and find easy, fast and efficient ways of working with the issues or little unpleasantness’s in your life.

I am now featuring aspects of my upcoming internet programme to teach Inner Mind Reading.

How do you decide what is the most important aspect of your concern right now?

                                        Photo by M'reen, a tended wood in Newmarket UK

Looking through my blog there are a number of articles that give, ‘how to’ lists

just how do you decide which of these is the most beneficial for you?

After reading my blog  why not glance through these previous blogs?

Take back your power.

The art of resting fully

How to write your way out of self doubt.

How to help others without compromising yourself?

‘The 7 habits of highly effective people’ : I transformed myself into a fact finder.

Goal creation: 5 helpful rules.

9 psychological symptoms of stress.

How do you decide what is the most important aspect of your concern right now?

Easy you create a hierarchy of needs.

If you are contemplating a relationship: business, personal, social, attitude or whatever.

If you are deciding what elements make a perfect holiday for you.

If you are considering a new job or to stay where you are.

If you concerned if you are a good enough parent or what is a parent supposed to be?

Then its useful, to find out what is important to you; and you may be surprised to find that what you think is the most important point is in fact a few down the list.

So how do you do this?

How do you create a hierarchy of needs?

Taking the areas from the blog Goal creation: 5 helpful rules below:

Areas being checked		Count the number of  Xs to see which is most important etc.  So finding the area you might want to work on first.
A	Career
B	Relationships
C	Fun/leisure
D	Finances
E	Service
F	Personal growth

You make a decision which is the most important and put a X on that line.

Which is the most important to you. A or B?  A or C?  A or D? A or E? A or F?

Which is the most important to you.                B or C?  B or D? B or E? B or F?

Which is the most important to you.                              C or D?  C or E? C or F?

Which is the most important to you.                                            D or E? D or F?

Which is the most important to you.                                                          E or F?

This does not mean that you work on one area exclusively as life won’t wait for you to catch up with the other areas. It simply means that you concentrate on that particular area which, interestingly, shaves a little off the other areas in life.

Looking at the list above Service may mean very different things to different people; you may not even know what it is supposed to be referring to. You can omit this area, you can substitute another area of life or you can trust that your subconscious mind knows what Service means in your life.

You might want to explore your own list for Service with complete confidence that it is just right for you in exactly the same way you can write out your own list for any of the areas listed above.

However first you might like to try it with something easy like your holiday needs and preferences 

and separately those you think your companion has. I will go into this more extensively in the future.

If you are examining anything, say, a relationship or career change etc then the longer your list,

the deeper into your subconscious you delve and the more fruitful this exercise will be.

Enjoy exploring beyond the bounds of ‘where no man has gone before’.

Perhaps you’d like to check out my sister blogs:

www.ourmindminds.blogspot.com               this takes advantage of the experience and expertise of others. 

www.turbochargedreading.blogspot.com      describes the steps to reading in the way your mind prefers.

www.happyartaccidents.blogspot.com         just for fun.

To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.

The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”