5 Steps to

figure out what you want

5 Steps
to figure out what you want
80/20 Analysis
1 Re-evaluate your life by looking at your last six months of events,
activities and experiences.

Start, stop and continue

2 Decide what you want to start, stop and continue in your life to cre-
ate more fulfillment.

What dont you want?

3 Decide what you don’t want to figure out what you do want.

Wheel of life?
4 Determine how fulfilled you feel in each area of your life and look
towards the areas where you aren’t thriving. Explore what you can do
to grow.

How do you want to feel?

5 Figure out what feelings you want to embrace and what feelings you
want to minimise.

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80/20 Analysis
re-evaluating your life
Revisit your social media history, your calendar and your planner for the last six months to
one year to help you complete the exercise below.

Write down the events, activities and Write down the events, activities and
people that took away from your people that took away from your
happiness and wellbeing in this column. happiness and wellbeing in this column.

BAD GOOD

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80/20 Analysis
re-evaluating your life
Can you see any patterns in your 80/20 analysis?

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Start, stop and continue
What would you like to start doing more of in your life? Use the 80/20 analysis on the last
page for direction.

start

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Start, stop and continue
What are the low quality activities that you want to reduce in your life.

stop

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Start, stop and continue
What high quality activities do you want to continue in your life?

continue

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What don’t you want?
How could I make sure that in five years time, I’m extremely unhappy?

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 What don’t you want?
How could I design my day to day life to ensure that feelings of anxiety are at their
highest and I’m sad all the time?

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What don’t you want?
How could I make sure that I feel isolated, disconnected and lonely?

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What don’t you want?
From the inversion prompts that you’ve completed, what have you learned about
what you DO want?

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Wheel of Life
Colour in each section of the wheel according to how fulfilled you feel in that area. Look to the
next page for more information on each section.

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Wheel of Life
FUN + ADVENTURE
• How many fun activities have been sprinkled in to your life lately?
• When was the last time you did something just for the sake of doing something -
without thinking about the ROI?

SPIRITUALITY
• Are you feeling connected to something bigger than yourself?
• Have your been practicing meditation, prayer or another type of spiritual
development?

GROWTH
• Have you been choosing courage over comfort lately?
• When was the last time you learned something new?
• Have you been taking in inspiring, insightful information lately?

WORK
• Are you feeling fulfilled in your career?
• Are you feeling challenged in your work?
• Do you feel motivated to do more in your work?

HEALTH
• Have you been moving your body consistently?
• Have you been eating nutritional meals regularly?
• Have you been sleeping over 7 hours each night?
• How have you been feeling mentally recently?

WEALTH AND FINANCE

• Do you feel like you are able to afford the experiences and things that help you to live your
most authentic life?
• Do you feel as if your mindset towards money is healthy?

ENVIRONMENT
• Do you live in an environment that helps you to feel content and happy?
• Do you feel safe where you live?
• Do you feel like you’re living in the right place for you?
• Is your environment set up in a way that makes you feel productive, inspired and
content?

CONNECTION
• Do you feel connected to your friends and family?
• Have you seen the people that you love in person lately?
• Do you feel connected to your community and the people that you work with?

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Wheel of Life
Look at the areas on your wheel of life where you aren’t thriving. What can you do
to grow?

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What do you want to feel?
What feelings to you want to embrace? What feelings do you want to minimise?

EMBRACE MINIMISE

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How do you want to feel?
What can you do to embrace and minimise those feelings?

EMBRACE MINIMISE

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References
80/20 Principle

• Book: 80/20 Principle, Richard Koch

• Resource: 80/20 Analysis Template for Productivity, Jared Dees
• Article: Forget New Year’s Resolutions and Conduct a ‘Past Year Review’ Tim Ferris

Inversion

• Article: Inversion, the crucial skill that no one taught you, James Clear
• 102: Choosing Goals (How to Figure Out What You Want), Chris Sparks

Wheel of life

• Paul J. Meyer, creator of the wheel of life exercise

How do you want to feel?

• Book: Desire Map, Danielle Laporte