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Know Your BFK Numbers

Tara Wilken
3 min readFeb 23, 2021

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WAIT… WHAT ARE THOSE???

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During the course of last year I developed a way for me to get a better understanding of where I was emotionally.

Today, I want to share my new method with you!

BFK Numbers! Yeah!

And I can hear you now….. “WHAT?!”

BFK Numbers are all about breaking down a situation or issue you are dealing with.

What do you BELIEVE

What do you FEEL

What do you KNOW

For any given situation or issue.

Let’s look at stress for example. And a scale of 0–10. Where 10 is overwhelmed with stress.

What do you BELIEVE your current stress level is?

What do you FEEL your current stress level is?

What do you KNOW your current stress level is?

What I found is there is usually a mis-match between these numbers.

Sometimes it was enough for me just to know the difference.

And sometimes I needed something extra.

Maybe I said: I BELIEVE my stress is a 2, I FEEL my stress is a 3, but I KNOW my stress is a 9. By getting the extra awareness data I was able to do something to reduce my stress faster. Like taking an…

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Tara Wilken
Tara Wilken

Written by Tara Wilken

Well-Being Curator. Empowering high achievers with easy, practical self-care resources. So you can spend time with people who matter. https://www.tarawilken.com

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