Rate your Day
A client of mine has started to take a very close look at how well he's walking the talk in his life and has developed a very interesting rating scale to track his progress and is allowing me to tell you about it.
It's a 5-point scale (the higher the number, the better the day). Although I've included some of his detailed 'watch' items, I want you to pay particular attention to the "names" he's given each rating as they really capture what the ratings mean to him:
- Cocooned
• Nothing truly productive accomplished
• Totally zonked, depressed, bad day
• Endless escapism - Crawling
• A few lower priority tasks accomplished
• Sluggish but moving
• A lot of escapism - Walking
• Small chunks of productive time
• Limited amounts of important work accomplished
• Moderate but controlled escapism - Jogging
• Large chunks of productive time
• Targeted progress on important tasks
• Minor, controlled escapism
• Sense of clarity, playfulness, and movement - Jammin
• In a state of flow
• Hard working most of the day
• Productive, important tasks done
• Little or no escapism
• Rapid paced, fun, dancing, singing, energetic day
So that's his rating scale, but how well would you score on it? Better yet, what would your 5-point scale look like?
Try creating one and see how well you do with it for the next week or so.
Labels: Life Coach - Life Coaching
posted by Barry Zweibel at 6:37 AM
2 Comments:
Barry,
I like the rating system idea and the names your client has developed! I noticed that the criteria does seem to rate the "cocooning" days as bad, while the "jammin" days are the best. For me personally, I've learned to enjoy the cocooning times, too, as they are sometimes necessary in the process of bringing forth great stuff. Just as the farmer's field lies fallow in the winter, so too must we sometimes have an off day in order to be brilliant in others....
Great point, Lisa. I've always found it fascinating how different people can interpret the same words so differently. A lot has to do with context and where we're coming from. So when developing a rating system of your own, be sure to choose labels that are particularly relevant and meaningful to your current situation and what you're hoping to achieve. The more that they resonate, the better.
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