Check this out. This is how I live my life...

Www.new-oceans.co.uk/new/wheel2.htm

Yea, found that link on my phone as it looked about right. Actually trying it on my pc it didn't work.

I like to draw it on a piece of paper and join the spokes.
The dramatic bullshit text is to be ignored!

I very much dislike this sort of thing, it implies that balancing these things will be what makes you most happy and that certain influences are not stronger than others. For example I am unhappy with my current level of security, but increasing it would not make me happier, if anything the opposite, because I value new experience and freedom higher than security and they help me fulfil many of my life objectives. Also these areas are broken down into different parts which cannot be compared numerically and overlap.

My theory is sustainable happiness is created within 5 areas:

Relationships
Health
Having and pursuing targets
Accepting and not being held back by the past
New experiences


Meeting your basic needs (does not bring happiness but not fulfilling can take it away)

Really? Knowing you Jaz that suprises me

I honestly think this is the one that should stress you least. I do think you should strive to achieve your goals, but since I've come to realise that money is stupid, I can't get "stressed", per se, about my career.

This dissatisfaction for example is the result of your past (what you've achieved up to now) by not giving a fuck about that and looking to the future and progressing with new targets you will become happier. It's not about how much "balance" you have in other areas of your life or how much you concentrate on one thing. This can be highlighted by looking at people who are very happy to be in the same achievement situation as yourself with a similar "balance".

Quite good, made me realise how far I've come compared to a few years ago.

It should also say that a higher score in one area also has culmantive effect in other areas.

Well that's good - it will push you to do better.

But money, and the love of money is stupid. remember that

My scores where shite on everything, shows how much i am going to lay the smack down on life

Don't have time to click the link right now but I've long known I underachieve in my life and am working to sort it out. One of the reasons I left my job was because I felt it was getting in the way of who I wanted to be.