Balance guide
Understand Your Life Rings
See what counts toward each Life Ring and check the recorded evidence.
On this page
Life Rings show time you recorded as Connect, Act, Reflect or Learn. They do not grade your life. Self is your home base and has no ring target.
Three different labels
- Life area: which part of life, such as Health.
- Life Ring: what kind of activity, such as Connect.
- App area: where you manage it, such as Reflect for a journal entry.
A ten-minute walk with a friend could use Health and Connect. The ring you choose credits those minutes; creating a task, goal or association adds no time.
Connect
Record time with Connect selected for connection with people. Sending a message or joining a Circle does not log time by itself. Joining a practice Circle is optional and does not share your plan or journal.
Act
Tasks and focus sessions can count toward Act when their recorded time uses that ring. A task can credit another ring: a call might use Connect, or study might use Learn. Choose an action to suit what you need.
Reflect
Record time with Reflect selected for reflection. A completion reflection can use another ring, so check its selection. Imported observations stay separate from your writing; an imported Screen Time total adds no ring minutes. Write a private entry when you want to reflect.
Learn
Record time with Learn selected for learning. Reading a guide, browsing a catalog or enrolling adds no minutes by itself. You can log a book, course or podcast even when the Learn catalog is unavailable.
Check a ring
- Open Self → Hub and check the date range and target.
- Open the entries behind the total. Check their dates, selected rings, minutes and any sync warning; missing entries or pending imports leave gaps.
- Decide whether to record something missing, change a target or leave things as they are. Future plans are not recorded time.
Your summary stays private. Sharing an entry is a separate choice. Changing or pausing a target does not delete your history.
Next steps
Understand balance or set and pause targets.
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