The way that we spend our time is the greatest testament to how much we truly value ourselves.

It’s a quote from Kyle Cease.

An eye-opener for me.

Spending my time binge-watching Netflix, eating crappy food, skipping that workout, procrastinating, social media scrolling, postponing meeting with my friends or family, overeating, spending full days on my pc, etc... do not cast votes for elements that I highly value.

My behavior gives a clear insight in how much I value myself, and it might be a tough pill to swallow. But becoming aware of this is a great seed for future change.

If it is a tough pill to swallow, read on.

Exercise: what do I value?

A simple exercise you could do is to make a list of things you do and have on a day to day basis and score them based on how much value they give you (1-10) (*).

For example:

• Work-out: 10

• Friends & family: 10

• TV: 3

• Reading: 9

• Stress: 1

• Social media: 2

• Nature: 10

• Sweets: 1

• Worrying: 1

• Social activities: 7

• Laughing: 10

• Internet: 5

• Sun: 10

• Helping people: 10

Don't overthink it. Just list things that pop up and afterwards score them.

Now see how you can spend more time on items that are close to a 10 and less time on items that have a low score, or reflect on what you can do to limit the low score items in your life, like stress and worrying, and how you can bring in more of the high score items.

No action, no change.

Could you build a plan of action to get more value out of your life? An action plan based on my list could be:

• Walk at least twice a week for a minimum of 30min, in nature.

• Meditate on weekdays for 10min in the morning and set 3 reminders during the day to be mindful.

• Read 10 pages daily.

• Etc.

If it's not easy to make those changes (as it is for most of us) but you really want to get started, feel free to reach out! Happy to help, it’s a 10 for me, so… 😄).

Cheers,

Jan

#becurious #becourageous #beyourbest

#thrive

(*) It’s an exercise from Kyle’s book “The illusion of money”.