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1.2 Rate each of those areas from 1-10 based on how satisfied you
are with it
Next, I’d like you to give it some thought, and rate each of those areas
on a scale from 1 to 10, ten being the highest, based on how satisfied
you are with your current situation.
Note, it’s not how good you are, or how successful, but how satisfied
you are with the current situation. For example, if you have almost no
social life because you spend all your days working, but you’re okay
with that for the next couple of months because it’s a very important
stage of your business, then you might give yourself a 10 on your social
life.
Chances are, some of your areas did better than others. I’d like you to
take a good long look at the areas you’re not very satisfied with, and
pick which one you would like to begin improving first.
Because that’s what you’ll be working with throughout the rest of this
article.
Once you have gone through this guide, you can make a full-fledged
personal development plan by applying the exercises to the other areas
of your life. But for now, we will focus on one main area, because it’s
better if you truly grasp the concepts well with a clear example in mind,
instead of mucking things up by focusing on too much at once.
1.3 Figuring out your ideal situation
Have you got an area of your life in mind yet? O.K.; then just start
daydreaming, and imagine what the ideal situation would be, in the
long-term (many years from now).
For instance, when I was making my own personal development plan a
while ago., an important area of my life had to do with friendships. My
ideal situation would have been having half a dozen to a dozen closer
friends (as well as the usual acquaintances). People who I could call up
to hang out in the park when the weather was nice, or to go rockclimbing, or cook up some mean Indian food together with. And
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