Oops! Slightly more than a month ago I talked about how keeping a monthly scoresheet for the individual areas of your life was a very useful technique I picked up from Steve Pavlina to accelerate your personal growth because it helps you:
1) Know which areas you need to focus on
2) Recognize your own growth (big points for your self-esteem)
Back then I posted a coach’s challenge for you to do the same and check in with you a month later to see how you’ve done. Sorry, I’m a few days late 
If you joined in, have you already done your re-score for this month? How did you do?
Once more, the categories I used are:
1) Mental
How healthy and fit your intellectual state of mind is; i.e. did you learn a new skill, read a new book, learnt something that expanded your model of the world?
2) Physical
How healthy and fit are you physically? Have you been exercising, eating right and resting well?
3) Emotional
How often and strongly have you been feeling positive emotional states versus negative ones?
4) Social
How have your relationships with close ones, family and friends been? Tip: they’re either getting better or they’re stagnating.
5) Financial
How about your financial health? Have you been financially happy this past month? Or has it been more tight than you’d like?
6) Spiritual
If you’re religious, how strong has your connection been with God lately? If you’re not, how often are you feeling that your everyday activities are filled with meaning, and that you’re doing things on purpose?
The previous month was:
1) Mental = 7
2) Physical = 5
3) Emotional = 5
4) Social = 6
5) Financial = 5
6) Spiritual = 6
Last month I was:
1) Mental = 8
2) Physical = 5
3) Emotional = 7
4) Social = 7
5) Financial = 4
6) Spiritual = 6
This month I’m be:
1) Mental = 8
2) Physical = 5
3) Emotional = 8
4) Social = 8
5) Financial = 7
6) Spiritual = 7
Cool! This is an amazing tool because I can start to see the patterns in my life emerging.
My mental areas stayed up because I’m always learning something new and exercising my mind. But my physical has consistently been down and that’s a big red light that’s saying something needs to be done! My emotional and social hits have been getting higher, mainly because of my new girlfriend who’s definitely having a positive effect in my life 
Emotionally and spiritually I’ve been feeling better because my financial health has been improving as well, so it’s pretty obvious how a jump in one area can help boost another.
I’m curious, how did you do? And would you like another challenge to score yourself today and update it a month later?
May 10th, 2006 at 7:40 pm
The only problem I find with the scoresheet system, is that it doesn’t accurately reflect the fact that as you get better, the areas you find for growth increase exponentially. Often you will rate yourself as a 5 or 6, but when you get to what you percieve as an 8, you might realize that you were really at a 3 or 4 beforehand.
May 10th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
Instead of implementing it on a monthly basis, I decided to do it on a weekly basis. Added a personalized component “Stage time” to keep check of my progress in the speaking domain. Here’s how it looks like:
Last Wk:
Mental = 6
Physical = 4
Emotional = 5
Social = 5
Financial = 4
Spiritual = 4
Stage Time = 5
As you can see, last week has been a sucky week for me. This week appears much much better. At the minimum, I am moving ahead.
This Wk:
Mental = 7
Physical = 5
Emotional = 7
Social = 5
Financial = 5
Spiritual = 5
Stage Time = 7
Woohooo
May 11th, 2006 at 12:21 am
Yea Scott, I agree. I think though it’d only become a problem when it manifests as a 10/10 score, then that’s when you know your standards have been more than raised and need to be bumped! In the meantime, I find that monthly growth tracking is still pretty level.
Hey Eric! Woah, keeping track weekly seems pretty intense! How long have you been doing it and how have you found it working for you so far?
May 12th, 2006 at 2:03 am
Hey Alvin wassup!
I have been doing it for a month actually. There are two big talkeaways for me.
1. It forces me to review my week and see it as it is (with no judgement or justifications)
2. It helps me focus on key areas for the coming week.
I really like what you write. Amazing how you never write out of great content
May 12th, 2006 at 3:03 am
Cool! Thanks for the compliment Eric, glad you like my stuff
Gotta be honest with you, I do get writers’ block from time to time, but I work around that by writing down as many drafts as I can, and finishing those when the blocks come.
More goodies to come
March 6th, 2007 at 8:29 am
Alright, we have a first timer! I am just going to start evaluating my mental, physical, emotions, social life, finances, and my level of spiritualiuty on a weekly basis becasuse I need that structure, and I really want to know how I feel on a regular basis. I need that type of structure to be able to make basically “spreadsheets’ of my life experiences and their importance. I am really excited and thankfyl for this sight to easily show me how to do what my therepist says, “a body scan”…(checking in my physical emotional level to se how physically tense I get and STAY when I am unhappy)…but with your system, I can check many of these levels weekly, and keep a focus on these things spacifaclly. Documenting anything always helps me get clear answers, and things done, and making notes is something I do everyday to remember things anyways. sO TO CHECK IN WEEKLY IS A GREAT IDEA, AND CAN SHOW ALOT ABOUT MY WELLBEING. Thanks for this sight!!
Danae