Step three, your monthly scorecard. This is extremely powerful. And I have done this because I have a background in computer science. And for some reason, I think I like to automate whatever I can automate. And I like to make things as efficient as they can be. And, you know, a few years ago, probably five years ago, when I was first creating my life compass, I didn't have this section.
And they then I realized that every month there were some goals that I was copying and pasting. So from September to October to November to December one goal would always be there. And it could be things like, you know, I have a personal goal of making sure I go to sleep or to at least twice a week, quite early, say before 10 o'clock. I also have a goal to go and work out at least four times a week or two meditate every day. And those goals don't change. Yeah.
So throughout the year, they're going to stay here consistently. So what I decided one day is to create this monthly view, which will be just meant to record the goals that do not change from one month to another. This way, I don't have to repeat them. And once and for all, I can have them. So I can go on to physical for example. It's called down to physical.
And I can say here, work out for one hour, at least four times per week. I have a frequency here. So I will change this to weekly. And what happens then is you start each month to rate yourself if this happened or not. So this is where you need to be honest with yourself. Yeah, and remember, we talked about about transparency, we talked about being honest.
So it is your self assessment in you give yourself a one, two or three. And it's the same as with long term goals, it will give you a quarter. So all right in January, I haven't been really good. It was the beginning of the year was cold, I wasn't motivated. And I, you know, I didn't quite succeed to go four times a week. So here I'm giving myself a one, right?
But in February, it started to get better. I wasn't quite there, but I was at you know, say, out of 12 times, or actually even feet and 16 times say I was there 12 times and I think that I'm on a on a good roll and that I am getting into the habit of working out. And actually in March, I did manage to, to go four times a week. So here I'm, I'm getting my free and I remain consistent. Then in June for whatever reason, I'm dropping a bit so it becomes 01 At the end of June, when I do my life compass, I will realize, Hmm, this is not going so well. And maybe in August, it turns red.
And that's when I know that I need to do something specific to reestablish my routine of working out each week. And so I would put action probably put a goal for the month of August specifically, just to say, reestablish my routine of working out. And hopefully, in August, I get to green until the end of the year. You get the picture. Yeah, this is just a very quick self assessment that you will do every month. It will make you save time because you don't have to repeat this goal.
You don't have to rewrite it. And also, it will give you feedback on how consistent you have been throughout the year. Yeah, if I, if you can imagine now this scorecard being completed with all your goals and several months, you can start seeing the trends and you can start appreciating here, I've even played the game of putting some scores, counting the number of greens, just for you to do a bit of Game of gamification and play with your results, you get the point. So it's the same sections physical community, financial, social and purpose. So feel free to use those categories or change them. By the way, there's a link here, if you don't remember what those categories are about, can go onto our website and find them.
But yeah, straightforward eats your monthly scorecard. Many people when they first use the life compass, don't understand this section. And I insist heavily that this is actually really, really helpful, because it will make the rest of your life compass so much easier. So make sure that you ask yourself, what are those goals that I repeat month after month after month, and those ones don't put them in the latest sections that we're going to review. Put them here. Just think about The fact that you're gonna free yourself from having to repeat those goals and rewrite them.
You just keep them here and you track them every month. That's the monthly scorecard.