Needs Inventory and quick recap of LIB tools!

A few exercises back, you identified things that make you happy, excited, and proud, as well as what you are grateful for, who loves you and who you love. Please go back to this list weekly and add new things to your list, and watch that list grow! Once you start seeing these things in your life, they seem to multiply. We call this the Shifting Focus exercise, because when you are in need of a reminder that your life has more awesomeness than challenges, this list does the trick!

The Areas of Management exercise was the fist step in breaking down an overwhelming view of your life into manageable chunks. You will also being referring to that tool on a weekly basis as you complete Three-To-Thrive worksheet being introduced in this session....BUT FIRST... let's take one more assessment to discover more clues as to WHY you want what you want in each area of life! This will turn "TO-DO's" into WANT TO's! This is another step on the way to make taking action something that you become excited about!

The Values Assessment gave you insight into things that might play a big role in guiding your behavior. Some of these values are unconsciously influencing you behind your conscious awareness. Values are things you learned as a child, concepts that others and your social environment instilled in you that have become part of what influences your thought patterns, decisions and actions.

Also included in last week's post was Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs; basic needs that drive most human beings. Now we will look at what you think you NEED. For those of you who are lucky to consider food and shelter as a given instead of a current need, CONGRATULATIONS! You are ahead of almost 35% of the world's population, and should write that down on your lists of what you are grateful for, proud of and happy about!

Now, print the Needs Worksheet below and put a check mark by each need that you feel strongly about under each heading. As with the other assessment, don't overthink it; if the word that describes the need makes you say to yourself, "Yes, this is important to me." then check it.
After you have checked all the needs that are important to you, tally the number of check marks under each heading and write the total number in the line next to that particular group heading. The headings with the highest numbers are the needs that are most important to you.

Next print the Needs Summary Worksheet, and fill it out; List your top  5-7 values and needs then fill in the worksheet with the needs and values that correspond with each Area of Management. This will give you even more insight as to why you want, or think you need, what you say your 100% looks like in each area of your life.

You are ready for your first glimpse at the Weekly Three-To-Thrive Worksheet... go now to the next post! (Helpful Hint: Right click on the image and save it to a file on your computer so you can print it; or ask for access to the Google Doc so you can use it over and over!)