When journaling about my life I turn to four buckets. These four buckets are balanced with myself. Here’s what they typically look like:
In my personal exploration of what mental health looks like, I’ve found this. I have to ensure my own bucket is filled first, before I can adequately tend to the rest.
If I am not centered, then caring for my Family or Friends is a lot harder. Additionally if I over-focus on Work, then I am unable to sustain myself or Home.
## 2023-10-10: Tuesday
#### Meta: 9
• Me: 8, good time to self.
• Buckets:
• Home: 9, April helped so much: cooking and picking up Han. Later, Han woke up so early and wanted hangout
• Family: -
• Friends: 9, Was given many insights from peers
• Work: 8, felt great to be needed in so many ways
Notes on example above:
1. I usually scope these per day, though on occasion I do monthly, quarterly, or yearly reflections
2. The -
is to signify no new plots/subplots with that bucket for the day
3. I have an “emotional spectrum” number, negative 10 to positive 10, assigned to each bucket
1. I do average this out (rounding up) for my overall meta
2. This helps me understand how fully I’ve experienced what happened that day
4. I add a little notes of what “one thing” each bucket presented, when reflecting