I was re-reading parts of Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover and the section on emotional eating caught my attention specifically the section called The Circle of Life. This is what he wrote.
The Circle of Life
Typically, when I work with a new client who's struggling with emotional eating, I sit down with him or her and ask him or her to take part in an exercise I call the "Circle of Life." The purpose of the exercise is to learn what areas of your life are most important to you -- something a lot of people have never asked themselves -- then to investigate how things are going in those areas and, if need be, figure out ways to make a change for the better. It's really a process of taking inventory of your life.
It's a very simple exercise: Take a piece of paper and draw a large circle. Next, divide the circle into eight sections, just as you would a pie, one section for each area of your life that is important to you. These categories should be very general, such as career, health, finances, romance, and spirituality. If you can't come up with eight, try to have at least six. Inside each pie piece, write the name of the important aspect of your life. Now look at each section and ask yourself how things are going in that area. If things are going well, write a plus sign in the section; if things aren't going well, write a minus sign.
The minus areas are the ones you want to concentrate on, but don't discount the idea of making the "plus" areas better either. Write one small thing in each section that you can do today to improve that area in your life, and use that as a road map for the next year. I think you'll be surprised where the map will lead. if you can successfully accomplish one of the small improvements you wrote down each day for a year, your life will be significantly different at the end of that year. If you can do three things a day, you won't even recognize your life at the end of the year. It can really be that dramatic -- and I've never seen an exception.
----Excerpt from Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover, pages 155 to 156
Isn't that interesting?! Will try to do this.
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