How Is Your Life Balance?
The whole notion of a balance sheet is to ensure things, from a financial perspective, don’t get out of balance. Companies have a balance sheet to make sure that their assets are greater that their liabilities. Then if our assets are greater than our liabilities it gives us our equity or what we are worth.
Let’s apply a balance sheet approach to our life so we can see how balanced our life is:
Owns(assets) - owes(liabilities) = self worth(net worth)
There are times where our balance sheet or life balance gets a little out of balance. We start to owe more than we own and our self worth starts to diminish. To achieve success and fulfilment ensure your life is in balance. Think of your life as a balance sheet. If we paid as much time to a balance sheet on our life as we do to a financial balance sheet we would live in a totally different world. Complete the balance sheet below and see what your self worth is or create your own balance sheet to achieve a healthy well balanced life.
Balance Sheet
Assets:
Give yourself 5 points for each item below if you have achieved it. Have you:
- Attended a personal or professional development course;
- Been coached;
- Had 5 minutes everyday to meditate;
- Taken some time out to stop and thinks and be creative;
- Spent time creating goals for the next three months;
- Exercised daily;
- Caught up with a friend or loved one;
- Laughed everyday;
- Built up a support team to work with you on the achievement of your goals; and
- Written down all your strengths and then celebrated having them?
Liabilities:
Give yourself 5 points if you have achieved any of the items on the list below. Have you:
- Said yes when you should have said no;
- Felt overwhelmed;
- Ignored your intuition;
- Listened to your self talk and believed it;
- Complained about the weather;
- Slept for less that 7 hours;
- Taken on the negative energy around you;
- Ate in a rush and irregularly;
- Followed someone else’s dream or goals rather that your ow; and
- Couldn’t give because you didn’t have enough for yourself let alone anyone else.
Net worth:
Now add up your points for assets and deduct your liability points. This will give you your net worth.
Remember to celebrate your self worth daily.