Musings at Altitude

How would you be doing if you were measuring yourself in 4 categories per day:

(1) Personal

(2) Professional

(3) Physical

(4) Physical

Personal is the family or friends or charities or community.

Professional is the work or the development in support of work.

Physical is the fitness.

Spiritual is awareness of a greater purpose or much higher calling than any of these first three.

I’ve been trying to measure my day by day actions against these 4 measurable areas recently.

As you might imagine, I rarely get measurable activity in all 4 areas.

But I always get something measurable in at least 2.

Most of the time I get it for 3.

And sometimes I get it for all 4.

I smile when I get it for all 4.

Not coincidentally, the days I get measurable activity in all 4 areas are the days I seem to feel the best.

I didn’t realize that till I started tracking all 4 areas.

Now it makes lots of sense.

And now, I focus hard on ensuring that all 4 areas get measurable activity every single day.

Today, I started with church, and then watched some of the race with my daughter, and then did my weekly report for work, and then did yard work, and then went on a 3.2 mile, fast paced walk with the wife, and then worked with my daughter on her Tivo, and then watched the games with my wife.

Personal – check.

Professional – check.

Physical – check.

Spiritual – check.

A good day indeed.