When you are on the path to seeking personal fulfillment, you might be wondering how to MEASURE personal fulfillment — so let’s explore that in this article!
(Check out our previous article to determine whether you are personally fulfilled)
3 examples for what to measure when assessing your personal fulfillment
You can measure your personal fulfillment through a variety of different lenses. For example…
Example 1: Wheel of Life.
The “wheel of life” (or “life balance wheel”) is commonly used to measure personal fulfillment and life satisfaction in different AREAS of your life.
The specific words may vary from one version of the Wheel of Life to another, but it typically includes segments such as:
- Physical health.
- Professional life/career.
- Family, friends, community.
- Financial health.
- Romantic life.
- Self-care and wellness.
- Hobbies and social life.
- Spirituality and personal development.
In this instance, you are looking at how much “weight” or presence you have in each of these areas:
- How much attention are you giving one section over another?
- How satisfied are you with each section on its own?
- Where is there room for improvement within that section of the wheel?
This can be a useful tool to measure different aspects of your life — however, some of these areas might “bleed into” one another, or they might be harder for you to assess than other sections.
In that case, you might want to simplify it or think of it in more general terms, which brings us to our next example for how to measure personal fulfillment…
Example 2: Mind, Body, Spirit
You can think of personal fulfillment in terms of mind, body, and spirit:
- Mind: Your mental health (e.g. how much clarity and focus you have, where do your thoughts go and how positive vs negative are they, etc).
- Body: Your physical health (e.g. the care you take of your body, what foods you eat or movement you do, etc).
- Spirit: Your connection to others AND to yourself, compassion for others AND for yourself. This can certainly be viewed at in a “spiritual” or religious sense, but another way to interpret it is, quite simply, as relationships: Your place in the world, your relationship with yourself, how you interact and coexist with everyone and everything around you.
In this instance, you’ll want to bring the three into balance so they are all working with one another in tandem.
And that brings us to another variation of how to measure personal fulfillment, which is solopreneur-specific…
Example 3: Work/Life Balance
Another variation of this — for example, if you are a solopreneur — is to look at personal fulfillment through work/life balance:
- Does your work fully support your personal life?
- Do you get full satisfaction and enjoyment from the work you do, the life you live, and the way in which your work and life connect together?
- Are you excelling professionally while also living life in a way that suits you (rather than living life for someone else)?
If you are a solopreneur, *you* are your business and your business is *you* — so having a really strong, supportive, healthy, respectful connection between your work and life is absolutely essential.
If you are NOT a solopreneur, but your career plays a big role in your life, then this will be a useful assessment for you to use, too.
There you go — 3 examples for what to measure when you’re assessing your personal fulfillment!
There are other factors you can consider, too. These are simply 3 examples for the ways in which you can measure personal fulfillment.
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How to measure personal fulfillment
Now that you know WHAT to measure, and the ways in which you can measure it… we can shift into how to measure personal fulfillment!
Regardless of which of the 3 examples above that you want to use (or, as mentioned previously, you can use a completely different perspective on personal fulfillment), you can MEASURE your personal fulfillment for each item within it by asking these questions for each:
- If I didn’t “need” to put any effort into this, would I be happy to push it to the wayside?
- Would I want to improve or excel at this simply because the process and journey of it brings me joy — or do I require the end-goal in order to get any satisfaction from it?
- Even if this thing sometimes makes me a little tired, does doing this thing (and in this way) “fill my cup” and give me a little boost or spark?
- Even if this thing is outside of my comfort zone, does it feel exhilarating/thrilling to me (or does it feel frustrating more than anything else)?
- When I think about this thing — and when I’m doing this thing — and after I’m done this thing — does it give me a sense of contentment, ease, and/or peace?
For example, physical health: When you ask the questions above, does it make you realize that you don’t actually enjoy running… and perhaps you’d prefer to take dance classes?
Or, in another example, work/life balance: When you ask the questions above, does it make you realize that you’re a bit of a workaholic or stuck in a toxic productivity mindset?
These 5 questions are a wonderful starting point for how to measure personal fulfillment!
They’ll enable you to start to see where you stand with different aspects of your life, different projects or tasks you’ve assigned yourself, the way in which you move through life, and so on.
Your next step to attain personal fulfillment
When you measure your degree of personal fulfillment…
- What comes up for you?
- Are you personally fulfilled?
- Are you satisfied with where you’re at?
- Are you satisfied with where you’re going?
- Are you satisfied with who you’re becoming along the way?
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