Bull´s Eye

Age:________________________

Sex: (Circle): Woman Man

Civil status: (Circle) Married Living together Girl/-Boy friend Single

Children: (yes or no) ________ If yes how many:_______________________________

Occupation:_______________________________________________________
 Bull’s-Eye
The Bull’s Eye dartboard on page 3 is divided into four areas of living that are important in
people’s lives: work/education, leisure, relationships and personal growth/health.

1) Work/Education refers to your career aims, your values about improving your
education and knowledge, and generally feeling of use to those close to you or to your
community (i.e., volunteering, overseeing your household, etc.)

2) Leisure refers to how you play in your life, how you enjoy yourself, your hobbies or
other activities that you spend your free time doing (i.e., gardening, sewing, coaching
a children’s soccer team, fishing, playing sports);

3) Relationships refers to intimacy in your life, relationships with your children, your
family of origin, your friends and social contacts in the community;

4) Personal growth/health refers to your spiritual life, either in organized religion or

personal expressions of spirituality, exercise, nutrition, and addressing health risk
factors like drinking, drug use, smoking, weight;

In this exercise, you will be asked to look more closely at your personal values in each of
these areas and write them out. Then, you will evaluate how close you are to living your life
in keeping with your values. You will also take a closer look at the barriers or obstacles in
your life that stand between you and the kind of life you want to live. Don’t rush through this;
just take your time.

Part 1. Identify Your Values

Start by describing your values within each of the four values areas. Think about each area in
terms of your dreams, like you had the possibility to get your wishes completely fulfilled.
What are the qualities that you would like to get out of each area and what are your
expectations from these areas of your life? Your value should not be a specific goal but
instead reflect a way you would like to live your life over time. For example, getting married
might be a goal you have in life, but it just reflects your value of being an affectionate, honest
and loving partner. To accompany your son to a baseball game might be a goal; to be an
involved and interested parent might be the value. Note! Write your value for each area on the
lines provided below. It is your personal values that are important in this exercise.

Work/education: _________________________________________________________

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Leisure: ________________________________________________________________

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Relationships: ___________________________________________________________

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Personal growth/health: __________________________________________________

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Now, look again at the values you have written above. Think of your value as "Bull’s Eye"
(the middle of the dart board). Bull’s Eye is exactly how you want your life to be, a direct hit,
where you are living your life in a way that is consistent with your value. Now, make an X on
the dart board in each area that best represents where you stand today. An X in Bull’s Eye
means that you are living completely in keeping with your value for that area of living. An X
far from Bulls Eye means that your life is way off the mark in terms of how you are living
your life.

Since there are four areas of valued living, you should mark four Xs on the dart board. Note!
Use the dart board on this page before you go to Part 2 of this exercise.

My life is just as I My life is far from

want it to be how I want it to be
beifrån det jag

Work/ Leisure
Education

Personal growth/
Health Relation-
ships
Part 2: Identify Your Obstacles

Now write down what stands between you and living your current life as you want to, from
what you have written in your areas of value. When you think of the life you want to live and
the values that you would like to put in play, what gets in the way of you living that kind of
life? Describe any obstacle (s) on the lines below.

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Now estimate to what extent the obstacle (s) you just described can prevent you from living
your life in a way that is in keeping with your values. Circle one number below that best
describes how powerful this obstacle (s) is in your life.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Doesn’t prevent me at all Prevents me completely

Part 3. My Valued Action Plan

Think about actions you can take in your daily life that would tell you that you are zeroing in
on the bulls-eye in each important area of your life. These actions could be small steps toward
a particular goal or they could just be actions that reflect what you want to be about as a
person. Usually, taking a valued step includes being willing to encounter the obstacle (s) you
identified earlier and to take the action anyway. Try to identify at least one value based
action you are willing to take in each of the four areas listed below.

Work/education: _________________________________________________________

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Leisure: ________________________________________________________________

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Relationships: ___________________________________________________________

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Personal growth/health: ___________________________________________________

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