Personal decisions

Health & Wellbeing Prioritisation

Compare wellbeing goals, health changes, or personal improvement options. Useful for making balanced and sustainable lifestyle decisions. The criteria can be changed, added to and weighted.

What the framework is

Health and wellbeing prioritisation compares the changes you could make for your health, such as sleep, movement, diet, stress or social time, to decide which to focus on first. The template starts with five criteria: Positive Impact, Sustainability, Feasibility, Energy & Motivation and Life Balance. The criteria can be changed, added to and weighted.

What the result looks like

EXAMPLE
Which wellbeing change should I focus on first?
Top ranked
Sleep eight hours
Positive Impact 92% · 1st
Sustainability 63% · 1st
Feasibility 38% · 3rd
Energy & Motivation 75% · 1st
Life Balance 50% · 2nd
63%
Weighted win rate

Overall

Options Weighted win rate
01
Sleep eight hours
Positive Impact 1st · Sustainability 1st · Feasibility 3rd · Energy & Motivation 1st · Life Balance 2nd
63%
02
Strength training
Positive Impact 2nd · Sustainability 2nd · Feasibility 1st · Energy & Motivation 3rd · Life Balance 1st
52%
03
Weekly time outdoors
Positive Impact 3rd · Sustainability 3rd · Feasibility 2nd · Energy & Motivation 2nd · Life Balance 3rd
35%

Overall with the criteria

Rank
Options
Positive Impact
20%
Sustainability
20%
Feasibility
20%
Energy & Motivation
20%
Life Balance
20%
Overall
Weighted win rate
01 Sleep eight hours
92%
1st
63%
1st
38%
3rd
75%
1st
50%
2nd
63%
02 Strength training
42%
2nd
58%
2nd
71%
1st
33%
3rd
54%
1st
52%
03 Weekly time outdoors
17%
3rd
29%
3rd
42%
2nd
42%
2nd
46%
3rd
35%

By the options

01 · Sleep eight hours 63% weighted win rate
–
Positive Impact
92%
1st of 3 · 22 Wins · 2 Losses
–
Sustainability
63%
1st of 3 · 15 Wins · 9 Losses
–
Feasibility
38%
3rd of 3 · 9 Wins · 15 Losses
–
Energy & Motivation
75%
1st of 3 · 18 Wins · 6 Losses
–
Life Balance
50%
2nd of 3 · 12 Wins · 12 Losses
02 · Strength training 52% weighted win rate
–
Positive Impact
42%
2nd of 3 · 10 Wins · 14 Losses
–
Sustainability
58%
2nd of 3 · 14 Wins · 10 Losses
–
Feasibility
71%
1st of 3 · 17 Wins · 7 Losses
–
Energy & Motivation
33%
3rd of 3 · 8 Wins · 16 Losses
–
Life Balance
54%
1st of 3 · 13 Wins · 11 Losses
03 · Weekly time outdoors 35% weighted win rate
–
Positive Impact
17%
3rd of 3 · 4 Wins · 20 Losses
–
Sustainability
29%
3rd of 3 · 7 Wins · 17 Losses
–
Feasibility
42%
2nd of 3 · 10 Wins · 14 Losses
–
Energy & Motivation
42%
2nd of 3 · 10 Wins · 14 Losses
–
Life Balance
46%
3rd of 3 · 11 Wins · 13 Losses
Scoring Explanations
CRITERIA WEIGHTINGS — The % weighting for each criterion is shown in the table header. Unless this was entered in the setup, the weighting is equal across criteria.
WEIGHTED WIN RATE — Each criterion's result, in the measure they share, averaged using the assigned weightings.

When it earns its place

Use it when you want to improve your wellbeing but don't know where to start, or keep starting too much at once.

How to run it with a group

  1. List three to six specific changes, such as "in bed by 11 on weeknights".
  2. Decide how much each criterion counts for you.
  3. Compare the changes two at a time on each criterion.
  4. Start with the top one or two, and run the ranking again in a month.

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