{"id":49374,"date":"2021-09-25T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=49374"},"modified":"2021-10-05T10:32:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T14:32:04","slug":"design-your-life-dashboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/design-your-life-dashboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Your Life Dashboard: Take Stock of Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When is the last time you took stock of your life? How could designing your life dashboard help?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You want to take a certain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/direction-in-life\/\">direction in life<\/a>. But, before you can know which direction to go, you must clarify where you are right now. Designing your life dashboard can help you take stock of your life and figure out what&#8217;s working and what isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more to learn how to design your life dashboard and use it to find direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Your Life Dashboard<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The first step in tackling any design problem is to articulate the problem. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/good-designs\/\">Good design<\/a> is like a formula:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Good Design = Correctly Identifying the Problem + Effectively Solving It<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This kind of thinking is foreign to some people because it pays as much attention to the problem as the solution. But half the task of life design involves focusing on your problem, by taking stock of your life and figuring out which things in your life aren\u2019t working the way you\u2019d like.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Defective belief:<\/strong> I should already know my direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Corrected belief:<\/strong> I can\u2019t know my direction until I know where I am right now.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Picking the Right Problem<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Your problems could relate to the type of work you do. Or they could relate to money, family, love, health, or a combination. <strong>One of your most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/important-decisions-in-life\/\">important decisions<\/a> is to choose which of your problems to work on.<\/strong> Choosing wrongly could make you waste many years\u2014or even your entire life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The experience of Dave, one of the authors of this book, illustrates the peril of choosing the wrong problem. Because Dave, as a child, loved watching Jacques Cousteau\u2019s undersea adventures on television, and because he found his high school biology teacher to be highly engaging, he went to college thinking he wanted to be a marine biologist. But in fact, he was no good at biological science work, nor did he even like it. So he wasted two and a half years of college on it before admitting defeat. Then he changed to mechanical engineering and found happiness. He had focused on the wrong \u201cproblem\u201d by thinking he already knew the answer to what he wanted to become, and he paid the price for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cultivating a Beginner\u2019s Mind<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Dave could have saved those two and a half years by thinking like a designer. This would have led him to research what marine biologists actually do, and he would have quickly learned that he wasn\u2019t interested in that work. In other words, he would have consciously approached the question of his college major and career choice as a <em>beginner<\/em>, with an open mind and an attitude of learning and investigation, instead of thinking he already knew what he needed to know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recognizing Non-Problems<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Just as harmful as focusing on the wrong problem is focusing on a problem that isn\u2019t really one at all. <strong>In the process of life design, things that aren\u2019t actionable don\u2019t count as problems<\/strong>. But people get hung up on them all the time. For example, someone who wants to be a poet agonizes over the low pay and status of poets in contemporary society. Someone who wants to be company vice president agonizes over the fact that they work for a family-owned company where for five generations only members of that family have gotten such positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such people are mistaking <em>facts<\/em> for problems. <strong>Facts are like gravity: They simply exist. They\u2019re not problems, because there\u2019s no action you can take to \u201csolve\u201d them.<\/strong> So framing them as problems is a sure route to experiencing the frustration of wasted time, energy, and emotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Designers are utter realists. They know the only effective response to reality is to accept it. Then you\u2019re free to start designing better actions and responses toward that reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re the poet frustrated by the market for poetry (which you can\u2019t change), keep writing your poetry for the sheer love of it, and find some other problem to work on\u2014maybe finding another kind of writing work that does earn money. Or look for another kind of job entirely, to support your poetry avocation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re the would-be vice president who\u2019s locked out of such roles by long-standing company practice (which you can\u2019t change), consider switching to another company. Or embrace and enjoy the good things at your current job. Consider looking for greater value in your work instead of greater authority in a higher title. Become the best you can be at whatever level you can rise to. Earn enough pay raises to give you the money you want, regardless of whether you\u2019re ever called a vice president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The point is to: 1) realize when you\u2019re up against unchanging facts, and 2) change your thinking. Reframe the problem to recognize where your real opportunities lie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Taking Stock of Your Life<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To tackle the right problem for life design, and to understand where you want to go, you need to understand where you are right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Designing your life dashboard starts with taking an inventory of four areas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Health: <\/strong>This encompasses your mind, body, and spirit.<\/li><li><strong>Work: <\/strong>This is all aspects of your contribution to human life on planet Earth, both paid and unpaid. It answers the question, \u201cWhat do you do?\u201d&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Joy: <\/strong>Your joy is the pleasure and refreshment you gain from doing anything that brings you happiness simply for the doing of it, like a child finger painting. It\u2019s the pleasure you gain from <em>playing<\/em>.<\/li><li><strong>Relationships: <\/strong>These are your ties with family, friends, colleagues, and all of the other connections between you and other people.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Designing Your Life Dashboard<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Think of these four areas as making up a \u201clife dashboard.\u201d Like the dashboard of a car, this one tells you how your various \u201csystems\u201d are functioning. It lets you know if you can get to where you\u2019re going, and it tells you when you need to pull over for refueling or repair. Health is located at the life dashboard\u2019s base because the other three gauges all depend on it to some extent; when your health is troubled, this negatively affects the rest of your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Using Your Life Dashboard<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>After you design your life dashboard, start using it by reflecting on your status in each of the four areas. Then indicate, on a scale from 0% to 100%, how \u201cfull\u201d it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, imagine you\u2019re an entrepreneur who has created a new startup. If you\u2019re totally committed to the work, your work gauge might be nearly full. But if you\u2019ve neglected your health and taken on too much stress, your health gauge might read low. If you\u2019ve maintained good relationships with your family and friends, that gauge might read high. But if you\u2019ve lost touch with leisure time and doing things for pure enjoyment, your joy gauge might read medium or low\u2014unless your joy is bound up with your work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To help with this self-assessment, ask yourself the following questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Health:<ul><li>Physical: How is your bodily health right now?<\/li><li>Mental: How sharp and mentally engaged are you?<\/li><li>Spiritual: How is your general <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/emotional-health-and-well-being\/\">emotional health<\/a> right now? Do you feel \u201cplugged in\u201d to a meaning bigger than yourself? If you find spiritual practices valuable, are you practicing yours?&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Work: How well is your paid work going? How is any volunteer work going? If you\u2019re a homemaker or you take care of family members, how is that going?<\/li><li>Joy: What do you do for nothing but the fun of it? How do you \u201cplay\u201d?<\/li><li>Relationships: How healthy are your family relationships? What about your friends, colleagues, pets, and community? Do you have people in your life to love, and are there people in your life who love you back?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you design your life dashboard and begin to use it, <strong>you start to clarify the problems that you need to address through life design. <\/strong>You may find that you want to revise your life dashboard occasionally, because your answers will change over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When is the last time you took stock of your life? How could designing your life dashboard help? You want to take a certain direction in life. But, before you can know which direction to go, you must clarify where you are right now. Designing your life dashboard can help you take stock of your life and figure out what&#8217;s working and what isn&#8217;t. 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