Level 10 Life Assessment: My Favorite Annual Life Audit

Do you struggle to set goals every year or feel like your goals never actually improve your life? Before doing a Level 10 Life assessment, I would sometimes struggle to think of meaningful goals to set, and I didn't know if I was improving my life year over year. I had no tangible way to track if I was improving. I learned about the Level 10 Life assessment, and I've been using it for the past five or six years to assess where I am in life!

I complete a Level 10 Life assessment every year before I sit down to set goals, and I compare it with my life audit from the year before to see how my life has changed.

It's become my favorite way to track how I'm improving my life because it's quantifiable, helps me reflect on my year, and gives me a good starting point for thinking of goals to set for the upcoming year.

If you never know where to start with goal setting or feel lost in life, this is a great place to start!

Today, I'm going to share my process for doing a Level 10 Life assessment, and how you can do your own life audit!

Before we get into the process of how to do a Level 10 Life assessment, here's a little background on what it is, how it was started, and why you should do one!

The Level 10 Life assessment was originally created by Hal Elrod in his book The Miracle Morning.

Basically, a Level 10 Life assessment is when you score yourself on a scale of 1-10 in different areas of your life. The goal is to achieve a 10 in every area of your life!

These are the original categories:

Spoiler alert: I haven't been able to achieve a 10 in every area of my life, but the Level 10 Life assessment does help me assess how I'm doing in every area of my life.

Next, I'll show you how you can conduct your own life audit!

I always do my Level 10 Life assessments in my bullet journal, and if you've been perusing my blog for any set amount of time, you'll know that I'm a huge fan of bullet journaling! This life audit can easily be done with a blank sheet of paper or any notebook.

I've tweaked the categories to fit my current life as a college student. It's a good idea to start with the original categories and then customize them based on your lifestyle.

These are the categories I'm currently using to rate my life:

I feel that these categories currently represent each major area of my life. For example, fitness and nutrition are separate because I want each area to be a large part of my life.

As you can see in my bullet journal photos, I like to write down my categories and then draw a line chart next to them.

Now for the hard part of rating each area of your life!

I like to make a list of milestones and challenges from the past year and then base my decision on that.

Once you've done one Level 10 Life assessment, I feel it's a lot easier to do them because then you can move your ratings up or down based on what has happened from your last assessment.

Sometimes these numbers can feel a little subjective, and that's okay! For me, it's more about whether the numbers will shift up or down over the next year.

This is roughly my criteria for rating myself:

I also compare the categories with one another.

My fitness might be rated an 8 because I'm exercising almost daily, and I feel like I'm improving. If I feel like my nutrition is slightly worse because I ate fairly healthy but didn't eat as much fruit as I would've liked or didn't stick to my eating habits, then I'll give myself a 7 or a 6.

For education last year, I rated myself a 10 because I got into the business program that I wanted to get into, and I loved it! I also really enjoyed my classes and did well in them.

For business, I rated myself a 7 because I didn't work on this blog as much as I wanted to, but I did quite well at my other jobs.

For contributing, I gave myself a 1 because I don't think I did really any service last year, and I didn't feel like I contributed that much to making the world a better place.

As you can see, across the board, my ratings are very different, and it gives me a good place to start when deciding where to focus my efforts for next year!

While doing a Level 10 Life assessment, it can also be helpful to do a more in-depth year-end review.

While I like to come up with goal ideas for each of the twelve Level 10 Life assessment areas, I personally only set goals in four areas because the twelve areas do overlap, and I don't want to have too many goals.

Setting too many goals has been a deterrent from reaching my goals in the past.

Currently, I like setting three goals in each of the following areas for a total of twelve goals:

It's up to you how often you do your life audits.

I like doing mine on an annual basis so I'm not dwelling too much on smaller negative things in my life. Plus, it helps me focus more on the overall big picture of how my life is going.

You may choose to do a Level 10 Life assessment twice a year, quarterly, or even monthly.

When I review my old Level 10 Life assessments, and create my new one for the year, I like to draw a plus or a minus next to each area, so I can see how much it has improved or detracted since the previous year.

I love doing these life audits because I'm such a type-A person and a Level 10 Life assessment helps me quantify how my life is going and identify ways to improve.

Before setting goals this year, try doing a life audit to identify your biggest opportunities for improvement. Starting with a life audit will help you set goals that are more meaningful!

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