Exercise: Life balance

A balanced life is essential for your well-being, but achieving and maintaining harmony and balance among all the things that are important to you and that you value can be a challenging task. Experiencing an imbalance in any area of your life can lead to feelings of dissatisfaction or even unhappiness. It’s also common to be unaware of such imbalances in your life.

This exercise is intended to provide insight into and map out what you personally find important in life and how satisfied you currently are in each area of life. It gives you a snapshot of your life and insight into whether your needs are being met. This way, you can make effective changes in areas that are important to you and contribute to a meaningful life, possibly with the guidance of your professional. You can also use this exercise to help determine your goals.

Use the table below to assist you with this. You can write down the table and fill it in.
First, write down how much you value each area of life, where 1 is not important at all and 10 is very important.
Then, give a rating from 1 to 10 for how satisfied you are in each area of life, where 1 is not satisfied at all and 10 is completely satisfied.

After completing the exercise, reflect on the results, possibly with the help of your professional.
You can ask yourself the following questions to gain more insight and take steps:

• What surprises you the most?
• In which area(s) would you most like to see improvement?
• How would a score of 10 look and feel?
• With which category would you like to start?
• What small steps can you take to improve your satisfaction?
• Can a single change improve more than one area?