Coaching practices for Life Balance Audit

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I only ever take stock of my life around New Year’s, and by then the year I’m grading is already gone
• There’s a low hum of dissatisfaction in my life I can’t pin down
• I tell myself my family comes first, but when I look at where my week actually went it was almost all work, and I can’t square the story I tell with where the hours really landed.
• I’m good at my job and on top of my commitments, and yet I’m quietly miserable
• I already know roughly which way I lean in time, and now I want to actually catch it week to week

Practices that may help

1. Run a quarterly life audit, not just an annual one
   Review all four quadrants of your life every 90 days while the feedback loop is still tight enough to correct.
   The Eisenhower Life Audit
2. Valued living audit: how much are you actually living your values?
   Rate both how important each value is and how consistently you have been living it — the gap is where to focus.
   Values-Based Action (ACT), Made Practical
3. Name which burners are actually on
   Honestly assess how much fuel each of the four domains is receiving right now.
   Four Burners Theory: Making Peace With Trade-Offs
4. Apply the matrix at the role level, not just the task level
   Audit which of your entire roles or commitments are Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4 — not just individual tasks.
   The Eisenhower Life Audit
5. Audit the week for time perspective balance
   Briefly review each week for how much time you spent anchored in past, present, and future.
   Time Perspective Therapy
6. The Wheel of Life, Made Practical
   The Wheel of Life is a coaching tool that maps satisfaction across multiple life domains (career, health, relationships, finances, and others) as a visual "wheel" to show where life is well-rounded and where it is flat. It is widely used in coaching but lacks independent clinical trial evidence; its value is as a structured self-awareness and conversation-starter tool rather than a therapeutic intervention.
7. Track your life gauges: work, play, love, health
   Monitor how full your "energy tanks" in four life domains are before making a major plan decision.
   Odyssey Plans: Designing Three Alternative Futures
8. Run a PERMA audit of your current well-being
   Rate each of the five PERMA pillars to find which is currently limiting your overall flourishing.
   Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical
9. Audit your life against PERMA
   Check well-being across all five pillars — emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishment.
   Positive Psychology, Made Practical
10. Periodic eudaimonia audit: are you actually flourishing?
    Periodically evaluate your life against the conditions Aristotle thought were necessary for genuine flourishing — not just your feelings about it.
    Aristotelian Eudaimonia: Flourishing Through Virtue

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