Life area 5 – Life’s routine responsibilities
- Some of the questions you might benefit from answering here are:
- Do I regularly pay my bills on time?
- Do I manage my responsibilities well?
- What improvements can I make?
- Could I improve how I manage my routine responsibilities?
- How can I improve how I manage my routine responsibilities?
- What improvements could I start making that would reduce?
- Self-evaluation questions – Please evaluate from 1 – 10, your current situation and where you would like to be in five years from now.
- How important is managing routine tasks around the home to you?
- How satisfied are you with how you currently handle routine tasks?
- Are you disciplined in paying your routine household bills?
- Could you be more disciplined in managing your bills and other important responsibilities?
- How important is prioritising your responsibilities?
- How satisfied are you with how you prioritise your responsibilities?
- How important is a well-managed home environment for you?
- How satisfied are you with your current home environment?
- How important is dealing with home issues promptly to you?
- Would your home life be easier if you had a better system in place for managing your routine responsibilities?
- How much do you worry about your routine responsibilities?
- How much easier would your life be if you were more disciplined in managing your routine responsibilities around the home?
- Write a personal vision statement and goals in your relationships related to this life area that you like to make changes in:
- What is your greatest life vision for this life area?
- What are your main ‘life area’ goals that will lead you towards fulfilling your greatest life vision? What needs to be done and by whom? When do these goals need to be completed by?
- What are your medium-term milestone goals? What needs to be done and by whom? When do these goals need to be completed by?
- What are your short-term mini-goals? What activities and tasks are needed to be done, by whom and by when? (Prioritise doing important or urgent activities and tasks that leads you to achieve your greatest life vision goal and long-term main goals and eliminate those that are not important or not urgent.)
- Then ask yourself, for each goal, the following questions to determine whether they are SMARTER:
- Specific – Are you specific with your goals?
- Measurable – How will you know when you have reached your goals? How will you know that you are making progress towards them?
- Action focussed – Do you have a good idea about what’s required to achieve these goals?
- Relevant – Why are these goals important to you? How do they fit in with your greatest life vision or long-term goals?
- Time-specific – When do you want to have achieved these goals by?
- Exciting (and enjoyable) – Why are these goals exciting to you and why will you enjoy working towards them?
- Revisable – How will you revise and review the progress you are making?