Your World

Your world is the life you are responsible for protecting, maintaining, and managing.

It includes what you value, what you choose to prioritize, and the areas of life where your decisions have consequences. Begin by recognizing what belongs in your world and what is within your control.

What in your world needs your attention today?

Your Resources

Recognize what you have, protect what you need, and use what you can control.

Your resources include time, energy, knowledge, abilities, relationships, money, and possessions. Every goal requires resources. Mindful decisions consider what is available, what may be lost, and what needs to be maintained.

Which resources are you using, and which are you overlooking?

The World We Share

When two or more worlds come together, they create a new world.

Relationships, families, teams, and businesses all involve shared worlds. Each person brings their own resources, expectations, and goals. Recognizing the world you share helps you consider responsibilities, boundaries, and consequences for everyone involved.

What responsibilities come with the world you share?

Your Goal

The goal is to achieve happiness by minimizing unnecessary pain.

Happiness is an experience of pleasure that brings joy and contentment. Your individual goals matter, but your decisions should also consider how the pursuit of those goals affects your resources and your capacity for happiness.

Does your next action move you toward the life you want?

Pain

Pain is information, and your pain is unique to you.

Pain exists on a spectrum. It may alert you to a threat, loss, conflict, or something in your world that needs attention. Not all pain is unnecessary, and pain can sometimes interfere with your ability to function. The goal is to recognize it and minimize unnecessary pain.

What might your pain be telling you?

Gathering Information

Use your senses to recognize pain and understand what is happening in your world.

Physical and phenomenological experiences provide information. Observation, listening, reflection, and asking questions can help you understand what you are experiencing before you decide how to respond.

What do you know, and what information is still missing?

Disappointment & Expectations

Disappointment begins with unmet expectations.

We form expectations about people, events, and outcomes. When reality does not match what we expected, disappointment may follow. Recognizing the expectation gives us an opportunity to consider our next decision rather than reacting without thought.

Which expectation was not met, and what can you control now?

Soulful & Mindful Decisions

Recognize your natural reaction, then consider your next decision.

Soulful decisions arise naturally through instinct and emotion. Mindful decisions use logic and reason to consider information, resources, goals, and possible consequences. Awareness of both helps you choose how to act.

Virtues & Actions

Your actions define who you are. Balanced virtues are tools you can use.

Courage, patience, empathy, responsibility, moderation, and cooperation are examples of virtues that can guide your actions. Too little or too much can create imbalance. Practice applying the right virtue, in the right measure, to your situation.

Which balanced virtue would help you take your next action?