5 Check-in Areas to Assess Your Personal Well-being and Feel More Fulfilled Each Day
How are you doing these days? Is your cup feeling full? Empty? Has everything piled up around you, and you’ve poured all of yourself out? It’s common to feel this way. We experience so much noise and many different energies daily that this can happen without us even realizing it.
Routinely checking in on your personal well-being will help you invite energies, people, opportunities, activities and goals that fully align with your vision for this life.
In this post, you’ll learn 5 check-in areas to assess your personal well-being, helping you work toward feeling happy, secure and focused in all you do.
Social Clutter and Overcommitment
Do you have people in your life that aren’t good for you? They may not support you and your dreams… they may feel heavy, and you feel drained after spending time with them.
We have people in our life that light us up, then those we could talk to about everything for hours. We have those that inspire us and help us be better versions of ourselves. And, there are those that leave us feeling heavy and depleted with abundant lessons of how vitally important boundaries around these interactions are.
And as we start to feel the comfort of spring, we tend to add all the things to our schedules and to-do lists. Like draining relationships without boundaries, these packed schedules leave us feeling frazzled and depleted.
In an American Psychological Association article, Dr. Carol Williams-Nickelson said that overpromising, overextending and overdoing disrupts the ability to take care of yourself. It affects our overall quality of life-which was exactly the opposite of our intention.
Action Steps:
- Begin to recognize who you spend time with and how it makes you feel
- Dive into why you feel this way
- Make a list of all the things you’d love to do this spring and summer; lean into how many of these things you could do in a week without feeling busy
- As you review and plan, what boundaries need to be established? Recognize and take steps to begin to implement them. One step at a time is still movement.
Revisit Your Vision + Your Goals
We start the new year with a new vision and high hopes of reaching our goals, but it’s common for the focus to become lost weeks or months later. In a Forbes study, 45% of people said that improving their mental health was a goal they set for the New Year, but 11% kept it for less than a month. 11% ya’ll?!
Take some time now to swing back around and check in on the goals you set and your vision for this year. Remember these are YOUR goals, this is YOUR vision – they can be changed, discarded or reinvented to line up with what you need them to be.
Action Steps:
- Review your intention, word of the year, your goals, your vision
- How has the year gone so far? Get detailed. What has worked and felt easy, what was more challenging?
- How do you feel about the goals you have set? How do you feel about your vision? Does it resonate with you?
- Do some of them need to be reworked, let go, or checked off?
- Do you need to create different action steps for your goal and vision to be front and center for Spring? How about Summer? (Need some help? I got you!)
Mental Health + Self Health
Life gets busy… we get caught up in the day-to-day hustle. Whether it’s raising little humans, leading a team in your business, or grocery shopping, all of the requirements take a toll on our personal well-being. It disrupts the balance and drains our energy. It disrupts our biggest desire to enjoy the day to day moments.
Allow yourself time to pause and take a step back. Give yourself a warm hug, and recognize that you matter and how you feel matters. What YOU want matters and you deserve the time and space to do what you enjoy. What fills your cup and gives you what you need.
Action Steps:
- Check in with yourself and ask these questions:
How are you really feeling?
How do you feel when you wake up?
How do you feel when you go to bed?
What does it feel like day-to-day? Is that what you want?
What thoughts are you struggling with?
What do you want to feel instead?
What feels ready to feel no longer?
Are you taking care of yourself?
What does it mean for you to take care of yourself?
If you don’t put yourself first, why not? What could change so you can?
How could you in even a short burst of time?
How can you check in and continue working towards day to day happiness and fulfillment?
Define one or two things that could be added to your self-care routine—maybe quiet time, massage, a bath, reading or walking.
Becoming super picky about the who, when and what in your life and business clears the air for more focus, stability and serenity.
Recognizing the energy exchange regarding the to-do lists and the relationships will help guide and balance everything you do and how you participate in your life. It allows you to realign. It gives you space. It gives you internal peace. It helps you help your family and others the way you want to.
Check in with yourself… your mental health, and self-health, assess your goals and refresh to reconnect with yourself again. Calendar a self-check-in each month or quarter. I promise it will change your perspective, your decisions and how you feel each and every day.
Grab your journal and take a few minutes to walk through these action steps. Be honest—write to yourself in real-time, with all judgments and filters aside.
Oh! And if your space feels heavy, check out this blog on tips to clear and refresh!
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