Self-Evaluation, Part Three

Setting Priorities and Making Changes

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If you’ve used the first two self-evaluation tools, this part is the culmination and plan. The first tool helped you take a look at areas of health, physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. You answered a series of questions under each area to give yourself a good look at where you are right now. The second tool considered areas of life, personal life, family life, social life, and work life, again using a series of questions to give you a glimpse of where you are now.

This next part is the culmination of the self-evaluation and has to do with making some choices and changes, if needed. First, though, throw out everything you know about making New Year’s resolutions. That’s not what this is. Notice that we did not complete this before the first of the year, because resolutions, for the most part and for most of us, do not work. If they do, you either have an iron will and extreme self-control, or your priorities align with your resolutions. We’re doing something different here. We are evaluating where we are to give us a starting place, and we’re considering what we want to do, rather than what we’ve been taught or told to do.

The way I set this up gives you a clear view of the present in these areas of health and life. Most processes would tell you something like, choose the area…