Quality of Life Assessment
Based on the Domains of Permanent Human Concerns by Dr. Fernadoe Flores
(Fundamental concerns of all people across cultures and economic situations.)
INSTRUCTIONS: Rate the 15 areas using the following scale, as you experience your life today.
5 I am living my highest choice or beyond my highest choice fully satisfying my concerns
4 I am fulfilling my concerns to my satisfaction.
3 I am minimally addressing my concerns.
2 I am experiencing breakdowns in this area or I have interruptions in my ability to address this concern.
1 I am in significant breakdown in this area. I may feel upset or depressed.
Permanent Concerns of Life
1. Career: Identifying, clarifying and building your identity out in the world over time. Creating yourself as a set of possibilities to address other peoples concerns in the community. Being of service to others and expressing that service with or without pay. (e.g. I am a doctor, lawyer, teacher, graphic artist, red cross volunteer, Sunday school teacher, missionary, dancer, nanny or little league baseball coach.)
2. Work: The actions you take to provide for your daily concerns, one’s ‘to do’ list, particularly how we earn money. Earning your living, being productive, maintaining yourself.
3. Membership: The quality of your experience belonging to different groups, both formally and informally. Examples include the Rotary Club, the health club, a networking group, a church group, a neighborhood group, an on-line Facebook community.
4. Family: The quality of experience you have with your (a) Spouse/significant other, (b) children, (c) parents, (d) relatives based on your standards of satisfaction.
5. Education: Taking action to prepare to take effective action.
6. Money: Meeting your financial concerns including income, savings, asset portfolio, available credit, charity, credit score, debt, etc.
7. World: Any concerns connected to the fact we live on planet earth. Includes ecology, politics, world health, travel safety, governments. This includes areas as small as your street, your neighborhood, and expand to your city, state, country, continent and world.
8. Body: Reflects the concern that we have physical needs that require maintenance within one’s DNA & physical limitations. Sub-domains can include: a) body appearance, b) energy, c) sleep and adequate rest, d) muscle to body fat ratio, e) exercise, f) nutrition.
9. Play/Re-creation: Deals with the concern for a desire to relax, renew and refresh our selves, giving ourselves the freedom to let go of all other concerns for a period of time, Laughing, playing, dancing, joking, sports, movies, games, parties, etc.. Experiencing pleasure for pleasures sake.
10. Social-ability: How we take action and coordinate action with one another through talking, listening, sharing concerns, non-sexual intimacy, friendship building. Also include social manners and meeting community standards of acceptable behavior. Having close friends.
11. Dignity: Maintaining ones values and operating in a way that meets your standards of conduct. (integrity, ethics, honesty, morals, respect). Treating yourself and others as people not things. Maintaining boundaries of well “being”.
12. Spirituality: This domain deals with those things not found in the common physical world. Religion, your beliefs, your experience of God or the universe.
Your cosmology of life.
13. Sex: This is the concern for all aspects of our sexuality and gender. Sub-domains may include:
a) libido, b) quality of sex, c)frequency, d) gender issues
14. Home/Car: Do you enjoy your home space? To what quality does your home address your concerns? Do you love your car?
DISCUSSION NOTES
Based on the Domains of Permanent Human Concerns by Dr. Fernadoe Flores
(Fundamental concerns of all people across cultures and economic situations.)
INSTRUCTIONS: Rate the 15 areas using the following scale, as you experience your life today.
5 I am living my highest choice or beyond my highest choice fully satisfying my concerns
4 I am fulfilling my concerns to my satisfaction.
3 I am minimally addressing my concerns.
2 I am experiencing breakdowns in this area or I have interruptions in my ability to address this concern.
1 I am in significant breakdown in this area. I may feel upset or depressed.
Permanent Concerns of Life
1. Career: Identifying, clarifying and building your identity out in the world over time. Creating yourself as a set of possibilities to address other peoples concerns in the community. Being of service to others and expressing that service with or without pay. (e.g. I am a doctor, lawyer, teacher, graphic artist, red cross volunteer, Sunday school teacher, missionary, dancer, nanny or little league baseball coach.)
2. Work: The actions you take to provide for your daily concerns, one’s ‘to do’ list, particularly how we earn money. Earning your living, being productive, maintaining yourself.
3. Membership: The quality of your experience belonging to different groups, both formally and informally. Examples include the Rotary Club, the health club, a networking group, a church group, a neighborhood group, an on-line Facebook community.
4. Family: The quality of experience you have with your (a) Spouse/significant other, (b) children, (c) parents, (d) relatives based on your standards of satisfaction.
5. Education: Taking action to prepare to take effective action.
6. Money: Meeting your financial concerns including income, savings, asset portfolio, available credit, charity, credit score, debt, etc.
7. World: Any concerns connected to the fact we live on planet earth. Includes ecology, politics, world health, travel safety, governments. This includes areas as small as your street, your neighborhood, and expand to your city, state, country, continent and world.
8. Body: Reflects the concern that we have physical needs that require maintenance within one’s DNA & physical limitations. Sub-domains can include: a) body appearance, b) energy, c) sleep and adequate rest, d) muscle to body fat ratio, e) exercise, f) nutrition.
9. Play/Re-creation: Deals with the concern for a desire to relax, renew and refresh our selves, giving ourselves the freedom to let go of all other concerns for a period of time, Laughing, playing, dancing, joking, sports, movies, games, parties, etc.. Experiencing pleasure for pleasures sake.
10. Social-ability: How we take action and coordinate action with one another through talking, listening, sharing concerns, non-sexual intimacy, friendship building. Also include social manners and meeting community standards of acceptable behavior. Having close friends.
11. Dignity: Maintaining ones values and operating in a way that meets your standards of conduct. (integrity, ethics, honesty, morals, respect). Treating yourself and others as people not things. Maintaining boundaries of well “being”.
12. Spirituality: This domain deals with those things not found in the common physical world. Religion, your beliefs, your experience of God or the universe.
Your cosmology of life.
13. Sex: This is the concern for all aspects of our sexuality and gender. Sub-domains may include:
a) libido, b) quality of sex, c)frequency, d) gender issues
14. Home/Car: Do you enjoy your home space? To what quality does your home address your concerns? Do you love your car?
DISCUSSION NOTES
- “Sales” success is addressing others concerns. Everyone has concerns. Sales is fundamental to life.
- Breakdowns can occur when people spend too much time in one domain and
