

What would a score of 10 look and feel like in your life?.What would make each section have a score of 10?.What help and cooperation from others might you need?.Can you affect the necessary changes on your own?.How could you make space for these changes?.Which of these elements would you most like to improve?.How would you like to spend time in these areas?.How do you currently spend time in these areas?.How do you feel about your life as you look at your wheel?.Looking at the wheel, answer the following questions in a journal: What is the ride like with wheels like these? Is it bumpy or smooth? This new perimeter of the circle represents your ‘Wheel of Life’. (See the example for what this could look like on the left.)

Taking the center of the wheel as a 0 and the outer edge as a 10, place a value between 0 (very dissatisfied) and 10 (fully satisfied) against each area to show how satisfied you are currently with these elements in your life. Rank your level of satisfaction with each area of your life by drawing a line across each segment. Think about what success feels like for each area. Others could include: security, service, leadership, integrity, achievement, or community.Health (emotional/physical/fitness/nutrition/wellbeing).If necessary, split categories to add in something that is missing, or re-label an area so that it is more meaningful for you. The Wheel should be a view of a balanced life for you. Review the eight areas on the Wheel of Life in the model below. A regular check on how balanced you feel in important areas of your life can highlight useful patterns, help you discover more about yourself, and help you make any desired changes. This exercise, which is quite well known as a coaching tool and has many forms, can help clarify priorities for goal-setting and allow you to plan so that your life is closer to your definition of balance.īalance is personal and unique to you and is something to be assessed over time. One of the first exercises we sometimes use with clients is to evaluate their levels of satisfaction in various parts of their life with the Wheel of Life. A simple exercise to assess balance in important areas of your life.
