CompassCast™

Since the movie "The Secret" came out, the market has been flooded with many, many products like this one. 

Let me help you to save your money. 

Don't waste it on a nice piece of cardboard and a blank (except for pithy title pages) journal all wrapped up in a fancy box. David Cassidy's career must surely be struggling if his wife put something like this together to get your money. He clearly isn't using this technique for his own life and career! I wonder how Sue feels about that?

On the first 10 pages write down major life categories. As a life coach, I suggest the following: Health, Self-Esteem, Money, Work, play, Learning, Creativity, Helping, Love, Friends, Children, Relatives, Home, Neighborhood, and Community. 

These examples are are part of what is called Quality of Life Therapy and this model of counseling focuses on the items on that list. 

For each one find three pictures from magazines that describe your perfect vision -- what you would like. If something doesn't fit for you, the just skip it. (For example, if you have no children and never can conceive of having children, then skip this category).

The WHY here is very important. To interpret Viktor Frankl, if you have a clear why then you can get through almost any challenge. Finally, write all of your headings in one column on another sheet of your notebook. 

Assign a percentage to each on how important they are in your life, RIGHT NOW, TODAY. )So you might have 15% for Self-esteem, 10% for money, etc -- all adding up to 100% for importance). 

Then imagine your life was perfectly balanced and do it again. 

Note any discrepancies -- indications that your life is out of balance. finally, get a piece of something -- cardboard, wood, old framed art from a yard sale -- anything to build and create your own unique vision.