It may not be new information to you but, awareness if the key to valuable action and valuable action is the key to fulfillment and lasting satisfaction. I believe that we can never hope to manage a behavior or emotion that we don't have a measurable awareness of the behavior or emotion in question. So, here is a quick awareness increasing intervention that I find valuable and that I hope you find useful.
Step 1:
Make a LIST of all the activities you do in a day chronologically..all of them. Nothing too big or small, just any given day.
Step 2:
Using this list write an “N” if that activity is nourishing of your energy and a “D” if that activity is draining/depleting of your energy. COUNT your “N” and “D”...what's the ratio?
Step 3:
PLAN to act on this awareness that the “D” might out way your “N” number. A strategy could be alternating “N” activities within what can be a long streak if “D” in your day.
