Posts Tagged self-assessment

It happens sometimes that we get caught up in doing, in acting on plans that we’ve made. I know it happens to me. And it’s great when your job can transport you out of time and place for a while. A lot of times though, we go through life, living whole chunks in passing without focusing on anything.

From time to time though you have to assess where you are. You need to look up from your grindstone to make sure the pieces your milling will still fit into your bigger picture.

The way to gain perspective is to ask yourself questions. Start with three. If your first 3 questions don’t get you where you need to be, then switch out the questions.

I’ll usually keep separate the ones I swapped out, to use later. When I did this exercise using the questions below, I had three alternate queries that got swapped out because they were too far removed from what I was looking for, in the first round.
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This is the first installment for the post from the healthy habits series. Be sure to return for other entries in this set.

Do you know what to do when your health starts to flag?

You know how sometimes you get sick, your sinuses fill and apply pressure to your head to bulge, only there are no plates in your skull to allow expansion? Your eyelids want to shut but it feels like they can’t go over your eyeballs which are burning, itching, and stinging–even they feel swollen. Whoa, I had a flashback.

Anyway, it makes you wonder how you can avoid the next bout of flu or sinus infection. Or, you hear someone else’s story and you think it’s time you took stock. What do you do with that motivation? Start by reviewing some key lifestyle points. Thins often covers things that we overlook, underestimate or just let slide now and again, until bad habits are formed.

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