 How do you ensure you're making progress in all the aspects of your life? You know, we talk about goal-setting here all the time, but when it comes to, like, life is made up of a lot of pieces. It's finances, it's love, it's relationships, it's free time, it's leisure and sleep. But how do you actually track like where are you going? Am I moving in the right direction in this quadrant, the wrong direction in that quadrant? Well, in this video, I want to share the process I use on a monthly basis to evaluate where am I going in all the directions of my life and how to actually help you course correct if you're going the wrong way. What's up guys? Alex Hein, author of the book Master the Day. Now the first link in the description is to a free journaling worksheet and email course. Now journaling is the primary method I use to assess my progress in life, to assess the mistakes I'm making and what is holding me back. So you can check out that first link in the description for the free worksheet, the free email course on how to get started today. So the first step that I do each month is that I come up with the six main quadrants of my life as I think of it and I rate them from one to three. So the six primary quadrants are happiness, finances, fun and leisure or rest, relationships and love, health and fitness and contribution. Now when I say rate them from one to three the reason why I don't use a ten point scale is that I find it's just really difficult to understand where I am one to ten and one to three is much more simple. A one indicates something is obviously wrong and I'm not getting good results. Two is it's okay it could keep going that way and everything would be fine and a three is it's doing amazing I'm killing it in that part of life. Now the second step for me to evaluate my progress report so far for the month is that I write down the top three habits that I've been engaging in on a daily basis in that quadrant of my life. So again remember the whole point of my book master of the day you look at the daily rituals you're doing and you can predict where you will go in life and what I do is I've obviously some parts of your life are ten habits for fitness or for happiness but I try to find the three most important and then I just write them down on a piece of paper and it tends to look like this so happiness may be do I do what I love for work do I spend enough time with people every day do I get enough rest and relaxation finances might be do I track expenses do I save 10% of my income and do I increase my salary each year to fund and leisure or rest may be do I limit my hours I work do I actually take vacations and do I not work on the weekend relationships and love might be do I have a date night twice a week with my girlfriend do I call my parents on the weekend and do I hang out with friends at least twice per week health and fitness may be do I cook daily do I go to the gym four to five days a week and do I do meditation or Qigong five times a week for at least 20 minutes and then contribution may be do I give 10% of my income to my family or charity do I do one random act of kindness per week and am I working on being more present for my friends and not being in a rush on a daily basis so right now we have the ratings of each of these quadrants I have the habits I've been doing in each of these quadrants and then the third step is I evaluate so if I said I give myself a one in finances was I actually doing those habits and if so maybe those habits needs changing so maybe you know I wrote down do I track my expenses on a daily basis well actually to get the best financial results it turns out I just need to be earning a lot more money to be able to save the way I want and that tracking my expenses that habit wasn't good enough or that maybe with contribution my goal was to contribute 10% of my income to charity or to my family and I just wasn't doing it and I had to decrease it maybe I just do 5% because that's what I can consistently do every single month and the last step finally is if you know first of all this is a good habit I know this works to help me be fit be happy be fulfilled be well rested do good in school or at work to do well if you know that's the right habit then you keep it for the next month forward and you just do a better job tracking it on a daily basis but if you did the habits and you weren't really sure if it did anything then you need to reevaluate and figure out okay now going into the fifth month of the year may what specific habits do I need to change from this quadrant so you see what I'm saying you evaluate it one two three you look at the habits in the quadrants so that you're very specific about what you're doing and then you evaluate if it worked keep doing it if it didn't then maybe change it or maybe you try it again for another month to see your results and that is the way that I primarily assess my progress and just get a snapshot I want to be able to sneak take a sneak peek at that pie every month and no okay I was struggling in contribution last month I need to really work on that this month and then that informs my weekly habits and my weekly goals so I hope that helps again don't forget the first link in the description is how I use journaling to figure out what to do in my life find my passion reach my goals and do all that really cool stuff so if you click the first link in the description you'll get a free journaling worksheet and you'll also get an email series on how I use journaling to radically change my life and you can get my last two videos right there end right there