The Balance Test

Welcome to the Balance Test!  The test will take no longer than 10 minutes of your time, and is designed to show you in a visual format how balanced your life currently is.

How to take the Balance Test

Retire Successfully has identified 8 Life Areas that make up a person’s life in retirement.

The 8 Life Areas are shown in the Balance Bar above.  You will begin with the Work LIfe Area below.

For each Life Area read the introduction provided in order to gain insight into what you should be thinking about for each one.

There is also a list of questions for each Life Area - You will NOT need to physically answer each question.  Instead let the questions guide you and get you thinking about how fulfilled you feel in each Life Area.

After reading the question for each one, give yourself a Fulfilment Rating from 1-5:  

1: Completely Unfulfilled    2: Unfulfilled    3: Indifferent    4: Fulfilled    5: Completely Fulfilled  

Once you have given yourself a rating for a Life Area click Continue to move onto the next one. 

When you click Continue for the final Life Area Play, your personal Balance Wheel will appear indicating which of your Life Areas need attention.

Now you can start the test!

Work

Find something that gives you a sense of direction, accomplishment and worth

Work is about so much more than pay check; it gives you a sense of usefulness.  The excitement at the idea of not working soon wears off, and you will be left with a lot of time to fill. More and more retirees are opting to never fully retire; instead they are restructuring their work lives.  You need to identify what you enjoyed about your job, and what will bring meaning to your life.

Do you feel fulfilled at the end of the day, and do you feel you add value in some way?

Do you miss your work when you do not get to do it?

In an ideal world what work would you do?

What interests you, and what are you really good at doing?

What aspects of the work you have done in the past did you really enjoy doing?