E.L. Example Checklist
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🎯 FOCUSED PRACTICES
Tailor it to what you are working on….
[ ] Sleep: # of hours
[ ] Creative Work
Victories:
[ ] Getting Things Done Next Actions (Check ✔️Done/#\ when doing your evaluation
Victories:
[ ] EL Foundation Work
Victories:
[ ] Meditation Practice: 30 min sitting.
Victories:
[ ] Optional: 5 Minute take-off practice
[ ] Process iPhone Recorded Notes for today
[ ]Wash Dishes Every Day; make sure pots are thoroughly dry because they can cause mildew
Special Note:
V = 25 minutes of Focused work
Q = 15 minutes of Rest, Gentle yoga or Qi Gong/Tai Chi (i.e., moving meditation)
X = 5 minutes of Take-off Meditation.
If you don't want to do it, just start it and do it for five minutes like a focused meditative practice. And if you really still don't want to do it, then stop.
~ = 2 minutes of Yoga or Tai Chi between focused work
Normal Full Day
90 V Block earns a 15-minute break
75 V Block earns a 15-minute break
60 V Minute Lunch
90 V Block earns a 15-minute break
75 V Block earns a 15-minute break
Done Work
✔️GTD Practice this week
Present Tally (0/##)
Number of GTD tasks completed today? (0)
Remaining: ##
🛞Life Wheel
🫀 Health & Biological Foundation
— sleep, medication, nutrition, hydration, movement, physical health, energy, recovery, circadian regulation.
Reflection:
👁️ Awareness, Mind & Liberation
— meditation, mindfulness, observation without judgment, emotional governance, chanda/taṇhā discernment, critical inquiry, mind inquiry, freedom from unconscious reactivity. Essentially: Did I see clearly enough to respond skillfully?
Reflection:
❤️ Marriage & Intimate Relationship
— warmth, affection, loving presence, communication, listening, mutuality, boundaries, autonomy, shared meaning, sexuality, companionship, and responding to your wife's actual conditions rather than trying to manage them.
Reflection:
🤝 Family, Friendship & Community
— family relationships, friendships, ordinary social contact, belonging, contribution, and remaining available to people.
Reflection:
🛡️ Work, Service & Stewardship
— work quality, professionalism, responsibility, GTD, household responsibilities, administration, reliability, and ordinary competence.
Reflection:
💰 Wealth & Financial Security
— income, budgeting, saving, debt/credit management, upcoming expenses, financial planning, material stability, and your shared financial life.
This month’s focus:(for example)
Three cooking sessions per week, making enough food for leftovers.
25% take-home per week for food/gas/conveniences. 75% towards responsibilities, savings and debt reduction.
Reflection:
🎬 Creativity & My Engine: for example.
— The Story — filmmaking, writing, music, world-building, artistic exploration, learning craft, Artist Child/Artist Dates, and producing finished creative artifacts. Your Life Map history explicitly identifies filmmaking, world-building, and book work as the engine that moves me toward purpose.
Reflection:
🌍 Purpose, Service & Self-Actualization
— The Care / The Message — EL, service, social business, philosophy, teaching/coaching, contribution, ethical participation, and your larger direction. Your history organizes this through The Story • The Care • The Message, while also warning against making yourself responsible for “completing history.”
Reflection:
🌞 Joy, Gratitude & Renewal
— gratitude, take in the Good, play, pleasure, music, rest, tranquility, hobbies, positive emotion, novelty, enjoyment, and simply liking ordinary life. This keeps flourishing from becoming synonymous with achievement; your journal shows increasing positive emotion around ordinary experiences rather than only major accomplishments.
Reflection:
🦁 Agency, Character & Wise Participation
— autonomy, courage, virtue, integrity, self-respect, Mythic Courage (navigating with courage within an indifferent universe), boundaries, disciplined action, adaptability, and doing what conditions permit without either controlling reality or submitting unnecessarily to it. This captures the Life Map evolution toward awareness → acceptance → participation and Mythic Courage.
Reflection:
Stream of consciousness writing:
Reflection:
Entry: MM/DD/YY
