The purpose of scoring your KeyStar is similar to the reasons that you measure and monitor your mood. It hard to manage what you do not measure and therefore the KeyStar and Five Areas come with a scoring system.
In each of the five areas, work out what would be your ideal. For example,
Autonomy: Your ideal life might be working with animals, you have always felt more affection for our four legged friends and yet you are working in an office 5 – is the best it could be, whilst if you score an area – 1 there is room for improvement. Very few people score well in every area! – Each of us have areas which we need to work on and other areas that we have more or less mastered. Having said that – there is always room for improvement!
If you have one bad area – for example, your relationship with your partner is not going so well, but you are fulfilled in the other areas of your life, you live in a nice house; you enjoy your work where you regularly learn new skills, and meet new people; your health is good, you exercise regularly, then you are likely to be able to weather that storm and still enjoy life.
If however two or more areas of your life are difficult, you have a difficult relationship and your housing is bad, then life starts to get much tougher. If you have difficulty managing financially, then it becomes increasingly likely that your mood will begin to suffer. These difficulties often mean you are spending too long on the left side of the MoodMap in a stressed state, that is in survival mode. With a number of difficult areas you may find you do not have time or the resources to recover and rebuild your well-being and top up your energy.
Sometimes areas that you think you have covered, can creep up on you! It is therefore worthwhile to regularly look at these areas. Personally I like to check them monthly to make sure that I am doing what I set out to do. For example, my money management is not good! and it is not easy for me to work on. However I set myself a small target each month of something positive I can definitely achieve. For example, always checking the balance on my account before I take cash out from an ATM.
I try and do a major audit every six months where I go into greater detail around all of these areas and work out what I am doing well and where I need to make more effort
For further information and to learn more about MoodMapping, you can buy the book MoodMapping by Dr Liz Miller, on Amazon
and watch the YouTube video