LIFE PIE 🥧 Create More Balance in Your Life by Seeing Where Energy is Spent

👁️ TODAY'S INTENTION

Feeling overwhelmed? Wondering where your time flies? Let's explore together with the Life Pie exercise. It's a fun, creative way to visualize and balance your life's priorities.

🔍 What exactly is a Life Pie?

It's a vibrant, pie-chart-like tool that shows you how you're spending your time and energy.

The Life Pie exercise is a good indicator of where our time and energy are spent so we can make informed decisions that will bring more balance into our lives.

So let's dive in!

🎧 PODCAST SESSION

Prefer to listen? Tap below for a soothing guided walkthrough. 👇

📓 JOURNAL PROMPTS

🧘 Before we begin our Life Pie …

  1. Find a quiet spot. Sit with yourself for a moment. Clear your mind and bring yourself into this moment.
  2. Take a deep breath, in for 4 seconds, out for 4. Repeat 4 times.
  3. Open your heart and mind to this moment.

🥧 An Introduction to the Life Pie Exercise

We use these Life Pies to determine the state of balance in our lives at this moment. This exercise requires an honest, non-judgmental assessment of where your focus is most of the time at this stage of your growth.  If you do this exercise once every other week or so, you can track your state of balance, notice which areas may need to be shifted, and note the difference that any shift of the segments have on your reality.

It is very important that you are intentional and honest about your percentages. Watch out for trickery (The Judge and the Ego like a good trick).  For instance:  One of the segments is Friends/Social Connection-If you gather with a group and spend much of that time on your phone or scrolling Facebook, that is trickery and not actually Social Connection.  Same idea if you eat dinner with your family but you are all focused on a device or you spend the meal distracted by something that happened at work.  That is not part of the Family/Home percentage.  These situations are where honesty and intent come into play.

This exercise is information only.  We don't need to be “fixed”.  It was not designed to cause guilt, shame, or judgment.  Do not let this be something you beat yourself up over.  To make the changes we may need to make, it helps to have well-thought-out information and that is the intent of this practice.

🎨 The Life Pie Tutorial

Using the list below and determine how much focus and energy in your allotted amount of time goes into each segment.  Save your eraser by writing the percentages next to the corresponding words and then transfer to your circle.

🍰 Life Pie Segments:

  • 🏠 Home
  • 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family
  • 🧘‍♂️ Personal Growth
  • 🎨 Creativity
  • 💼 Work/Career
  • 💰 Financial Wellness
  • 📚 Learning
  • 💫 Spirituality
  • 🤝 Social Connections
  • 🏋️‍♂️ Physical Health
  • 🎲 Play and Fun
  • 📱 Escapes
  • 🤲 Service
  • 💕 Romantic Relationships

Of course, if you have other areas that regularly use your time and energy add them to the list. This is your life pie and needs to be relevant to your life.

Think carefully about these segments, be intentional.  Try to identify how your energy is actually spent. For instance: Money is a real and constant focus for a lot of us.  Do I have enough?  How could I make more?  Can I pay my bills or repair my car?  Many people have a job that does not feed their soul but does pay their bills.  Their focus is primarily on Money.  If you find purpose and fulfillment in your job and/or the people you work with and gain satisfaction from your work and enjoy being there, your focus is mostly on Work/Career.  Do you see the distinction?  Again, no judgment…just an honest observation.

This practice can be an eye-opening experience.

Have fun with it, color code it, and use it for greater awareness.

🪞 REFLECTION

Once you have created your Life Pie, ask yourself these questions:

  1. What are my observations after creating my Life Pie?
  2. What areas are my current priorities in my life?
  3. What areas do I want to be priorities in my life?
  4. What actions can I take to achieve this?
📣 AFFIRMATION

My time and energy are valuable.

I am actively crafting a life of balance and harmony.

Today, I intend to __________________

💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION

Take a moment to pause and reflect on where your time and energy is going.

We'd love to hear any takeaways from you! Feel free to post your Life Pie and reflections in the comments. Let's inspire each other towards a more balanced life!


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