Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal.
Today I'd like to share a concept I often share with my peers, it's called the life audit. I previously learned this lesson from Tom Chi the founder of Google X and was the first person to prototype the Google glasses. He shared with me, that life is consisted of either A, B or C type activities. A type activities energise you, give you energy when you do them. B top activities are neutral so it might be just watching TV while you're chilling out after work. You don't gain or lose energy, you just relax. And finally C type activities, they're the ones that drain you. Those are the ones that you generally don't look forward to doing.
So now if you look back over your previous weeks or months and look at what your schedule was like, what have you been up to. And then you draw up three columns A, B and C and start putting the activities in the columns that associated with the energy patterns. At the end, when you look at it, where is the majority of your time and energy placed? Are they in A, B or C?
I find that this is a great awareness piece to understand where you place your time and energy. And that may well depict how you feel generally week to week. Obviously if you're spending a lot of time in A then that's great continue to do what you love to do. If you're spending a lot of time in C it's quite obvious you're spending a lot of time and activities that drain you. Then it's time to start considering how to change things around? But how about if you're spending a lot of time in B? Then the question becomes, why are you spending so much time in B? Is it because of a particular C type activity? That you need to just mellow out and chill. This will continue to give you insight into what activities you want to avoid.
This process can be further broken down into a weekly audit. What activities are you doing on a weekly basis that move the needle towards what you were working on? And what you are working on doesn't necessarily mean a business or a project, it could be simply a habit or a trait that you want to change. And finally I take this process to the daily, I write down what is the one thing that I've done today that will help me move the needle towards what I am working on?
You could say it's a small accountability piece but it's also a process that breaks your months into weeks and into days. And so in this new week that's coming, I encourage you to consciously consider your activities of the week. I hope it will give you a deeper insight into your activities and from that grow inspiration into new activities.
Thank you for listening.
