How To Evaluate Your Life : Self-Reflection Journaling Prompts With 7 Ideas To Upgrade Your Life 

How to Evaluate Your Life

If you’re feeling lost, stuck, trapped, stagnant, directionless, unfulfilled, and plateaued, or want to reconnect and rediscover yourself and what you want, then it’s the perfect time to do a life audit 

And since we are in the fall, it’s the perfect time to reflect and look inward to what you want to see outward. 

In this post, I’ll share a simple process for evaluating your life with ideas on how to improve your life afterward

What you’ll learn:

• benefits of evaluating your life
• creating an atmosphere and the process of self-reflection
• How to evaluate your life at any time of the year: self-reflection questions
• ideas on how to upgrade, level up, and reinvent your life and self

Self-reflection and evaluating your life

There are many ways to do it:

1-the wheel of life, which consists of evaluating each area of your life and how you think you’re doing in it

2-do a simple quarterly review, ie, only looking back on the past 3 months, and evaluate your life now based on that

3-checklists and questionnaires that you can answer, then get an evaluation of your life and self

4-journaling prompts that focus on self-reflection, which I will share here

The benefits of self-reflection are:

1-clarity, consequently feeling light

2-find direction and motivation to get back on track

3-knowing yourself and your desires

4-extracting lessons

5-find solutions and redirect your life to what you want

6-figure out what you want out of your life

7-get your life together 

How to evaluate your life: the process

Creating the atmosphere for a good journaling session:

1-grab a pen and and notebook

2-choose a quiet environment or play some background sounds

3-bring your favourite beverage with you

4-wear your favourite PJs or sweats, or any other clothes that you love and feel your best in

5-light a candle if you must

6-pump yourself

7-start

It will take from 30min to 1 hour.

It’s best to use a timer for each question if you don’t want to take longer to do the whole thing.

How to evaluate your life (Self-reflection questions):

With these questions, you will examine where you are at, then make decisions on where you want to be.

1st, questions to assess /reflect on your life as it is now:

1-What does my life feel like right now? What is happening in my life? What am I doing in my life?

(about your life as a whole )

2-am i happy, ok, sad about how my life is going? What am i feeling about the direction my life is going?

3-What was my vision? Does my life reflect it, or on track with it?

4-What were my goals? Did i achieve any, or on track to achieve them?

5-how did i do on a daily/regular basis regarding following the plan I created?

6-How are my habits like? What are they? Did I choose them, or did they hijack my life?

7-What are the things I am proud of?

8-Who i became? Is that someone I want to meet or not?

9-Does my daily life reflect my ideal day or what I want to have and do in my day?

10-How was my self-care? Was I taking care of my health? How did i do it?

11-What were the obstacles, from limiting beliefs to events and situations that stood in your way?

12-how did I deal with those obstacles in general? What were my attitude, thoughts, and actions?

2ed, Questions to figure out what you want in life through making decisions and conceiving a simple starting plan

first, identify and set your vision, and what do you want

1-What do you want in life? In each area?

2-how do you visualize your life for the next couple of years(choose the time frame that best works with you( 5years, year,3 months..etc)? What do you wish you had, do, and be?

3-What success looks like to me?

4-What is your ideal day, taking into consideration your vision? What do you do each day?

5-What habits align with that vision you want to build?

6-What habits do you want to break from?

7-What self-care activities will help aid you? How do you wish your health would be (mentally and physically)?

8-Who do you want to be to live a happy, fulfilled, successful life?

now, turn this into goals, habits, and action steps

9-What 3-5 goals can you create from your vision that are action-oriented, realistic,time-bound, specific, and measurable?

10-What are the simple steps you can take today to reach each goal?

11-What obstacles(mentally and physically) might come up as you take action toward your vision?

12-What simple solutions for them?

(go back to this vision after you have achieved your goals to create more that will help you make it happen)

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If you want a full breakdown of how to plan, set goals, and set habits,

Here are a few articles to help you:

1-set gaols: How To Set Goals That Actually Work

2-plan your goals: How To Make A Plan To Reach Your Goals

3-build habits: How To Set And Build New Habits

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7 ideas on how to upgrade, level up, and reinvent your life

1-daily self-reflection

You can create your own pre-made journal. How?

Decide which questions to ask yourself daily.

Examples of questions: How was your day? What am i proud of? How do you evaluate today from 1-10?

What am i grateful for? How could i make tomorrow better? What good thing happened?

Choose any or find your own, then write them in a new journal/notebook for the upcoming 7 days and repeat weekly

2-daily visualizing a habit or goal you’re struggling to uphold

Simply, imagine yourself doing the thing, getting into it, and feeling the feeling you would have if you had done it.

With time, you find yourself getting there and doing whatever it takes

I struggle with going to bed early, but by consistently practicing visualization, I’ve started getting ready for bed earlier.

While I still have trouble getting to bed fast, I’m getting there. It’s a gradual change

This is how I visualize sleeping early: I visualize when I will go to sleep, wearing the pajamas,

lying in bed, waking up feeling refreshed and happy, looking at the mirror, and feeling proud

3-create an uplifting list

Write in it everything that inspires you from books, quotes, songs, shows, and people

for motivation and feeling good when you are down

4-create an inspirational board

collect everything that inspires you, from quotes, visuals, and add links to playlists

You can do it on Milano, shuffle, and Pinterest’s new collage feature

5-decluttering your digital life

Choose an area, and if you don’t know where to start, start with cleaning your following list on social media

Or organize your files and folders based on category, if you have neglected them lately

6-pick up a calming hoppy 

Like coloring, puzzles, board games with friends, an afternoon walk..etc

7-track your wins

Any win, whether the win is about a change in your behaviour, mindset, attitude, or in the actions/habits you take

Doing this will motivate you, and you’ll have evidence of your accomplishment, especially when you feel down or hopeless.

Also, it will help boost your self-esteem, confidence, and self-belief

I have a notion template to track your wins. Click here to download it

Final thoughts 

After finishing answering these questions, you’ll be in a much clearer place than you started,

And it will help you to unload and reflect on your life and yourself.

Also, know that some answers might come later after you leave the session,

since your brain loves to find answers to any question you ask it, even if not in the moment

Evaluating your life is important to do very often, and especially if you feel like

you’re life isn’t where you want to be, feel stuck, and things are stale

How do you evaluate your life? Is there any question or idea that you would implement from this post?

You’ve read How to Evaluate Your Life : Self-Reflections Journaling Prompts with 7 Ideas to Upgrade Your Life 

Wishing you the best

wafaa