A reality check with LifeCheck on the iPhone

I’m sure most of us have this niggling doubt now and then about how well our life is going and where we are headed. If you are not one among ‘us’, then congrats, you must be doing something great with your life. But for the rest of us who need a reality check, let us grab this new application from Emerald Life Coaching called LifeCheck and see if it’s any good at indicating the present status of our lives.

Life coaches seem to be the new trend in town for living a holistic life. But then not many people have the time, money or inclination to actually sit down with one and analyse our lives. For LifeCheck, all we need to spend are just five minutes, shell out $3.99 and have a little concern for ourselves. The application is developed by a life coach himself, so we need not worry that we are losing on the expertise of a certified professional. The interface is easy to use and presented well.

LifeCheck addresses six main areas of life, ranging from career to health to social happiness. There are two steps to the analysis; in the first step, we have to answer questions about how well we are doing in a certain sphere of life. The latter step asks us about how important these issues are to us.

After we are done with the answering, the application tallies our answers and comes up with the analysis that shows how well or how bad we are doing in each area, compared to how we ought to be doing. The results are shown in colors, each shade representing a different level of concern. Not surprisingly, red stands for ‘need for action’, while green indicates that all is going well. Hope for a light shade in each one, for that says that we are doing pretty good.

Every time we do a life check it is stored in the application, so we can always refer back to them and chart our own progress. At the end of the day, I think it is our own will power that will bring about any change for the better in our lives, but yes, LifeCheck works great to remind us what to work upon. Let’s just say that it is a nudge in the direction that we need to go.

• App Name: LifeCheck
• Price: $3.99
• App Category: Lifestyle
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• Developer: Emerald City Coaching
  
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