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LIFE SUCCESS SCALE

Dwight Bain’s LIFE SUCCESS SCALE Date: Now let’s get honest! Take an intense look at your life, and score yourself using the following scale from 1-10 to evaluate how successful you believe you are in the major areas of life. 1= Panic 6= High Moderate 2= Extremely Weak 7= Low Strength 3= Weak 8= Strength 4= Low Moderate 9= High Strength 5= Moderate 10= Peak Physical Health- Emotional Health- Spiritual Health- Financial Stability- Career & Professional- Social Support- Closest Relationships- Time & Schedule- Learning & Personal Growth- Recreation & Fun- SUCCESS IN LIFE SCALE SCORE = 10-25 = CRISIS LIVING LEVEL 25-50 = UNHEALTHY LIVING LEVEL 50-75 = HEALTHY LIVING LEVEL 75-100 = OPTIMAL LIVING LEVEL My top three areas to focus on this week: For More Information Please Contact: The LifeWorks Group Inc., 1850 Lee Rd. Suite 250, Winter Park, FL 32789 Phone: 407-647-7005 or Web: LifeWorksGroup.Org

What are some emerging trends you see in dealing with Difficult Relationships?

No question about it, you will be forced to deal with more Difficult Relationships, both at work and home in the weeks and months ahead. This trend will impact all of us in one way or another, so here's what to look for in understanding how to successfully manage relationship pressure in your personal and professional life. Professionally- Unreasonable and highly difficult bosses, (like the one in the Dilbert comic strip), will go away as courts, corporations and especially customers won't tolerate bullies in business. Customer service will be essential for business profitability, and companies that don't practice this basic element of human respect will struggle, fail or be bought by competitors just to save the brand. Personally- the biggest relationship trend will be massive numbers of Baby-Boomer parents who will grow tired of funding their "Late Bloomer" 20 & 30 year olds sons who never seem to grow up and join the adult world of paying their own way. T

What do you think about couples who choose to be childless?

Couples who mutually decide to not have children are often motivated out of protecting pleasure or preventing pain. Understanding the motivation behind their decision will help you to know how to connect in respectful ways, instead of coming across in a harsh or judgmental way. Protecting Pleasure- they may be having such a blast together connecting in romantic and intimate ways that the daily responsibility of parenting kids looks like a roadblock to the fun they are having in their relationship. That fear, along with the vastly different priorities of budgets and schedules that couples with children experience causes some couples to choose to delay or postpone having children that they believe would steal the intensity of being totally focused on pleasing each other. Learn to view this type of couple as individuals who really want to have a fun and fulfilling marriage, instead of treating them as self-absorbed child haters, since you don't know the whole story of their journey, w