The four areas of life in which we need to achieve clarity:

The four areas of life in which we need to achieve clarity:

1. Your Professional Identity – Developing Your Business: Ask yourself clarifying questions

• Ideally, what do you want your business to look like?
• What is your product?
• Who are your customers?
• Where do you want to be in five years with this business?
• How much do you want to make per year?

Now more personal:

• What skills do you enjoy?
• What skills are you good at?
• What kind of business/product would combine your talents, passions and experience?

2. Your Family and Personal Relationships: Again, look at yourself 3 to 5 years from now. Know that 85% of your happiness depends on having the right people in your life, and 85% of your unhappiness depends on having the wrong people in your life. So, ask yourself:

• In 3-5 years, who do you want in your life?
• What new relationships would you have?
• Which do you see ending?
• What kind of lifestyle do you want to engage in?
• What kind of family values would you have?
• What kind of house will you live in?

3. Your Health: Important questions to reflect on are:

• What is your ideal physical condition?
• In 3 to 5 years, what kind of physical condition do you want to be in?
• What type of exercise do you want to engage in to maintain a healthy lifestyle?
• What types of food would you eat?
• What would you have to make happen now in order to achieve that ideal condition in the future?

 

4. Money and Investments: We all want to be free of financial worry, have the ability to make choices without thinking about monetary concerns. However, money (or lack of) is the root of most evils in the world, so we must be very careful in the way you clarify your vision in this category. Ask yourself:

• In 3-5 years, how much money do you want invested and working for you?
• How much money do you want saved?
• How much do you want to be earning?
• Now, what do you have to do presently to make those visions a reality?

Balancing your life is not an easy task, and it can often be harder to find your own balance point. The balance point is where all things start, and where all things must return to, in order to find peace. Starting with clarity, and creating your vision as a result, is one of the balancing steps that we believe to be life-changing, and life-enriching.

 

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Adapted from Find Your Balance Point: Clarify Your Priorities, Simplify Your Life, and Achieve More by Brian Tracy and Christina Stein.