Your wheel of life can help you gain perspective on how you see your life right now, and allows you to consider the possibilities of a more balanced, happier and healthier life.
Creating your own wheel of life allows you to find your strengths and can give you ideas on how to improve in other areas. Think about the strengths you have identified in the previous exercise and see if they line up with your wheel of life.
Instructions:
- Draw a cirlce and divide it into 8 parts
- Label each area in your cirlce with a different aspect of your life.
- You can choose any aspects of your life you want. For example, in the image below, we used these categories::
- Physical Health- Where do you think you are with your physical well-being?
- Mental Health- Where do you think you are with your mental well-being?
- Relationships-Where do you think you are with your loved ones, friends, and colleagues?
- Career/work- Where do you think you are with your career/work?
- Finances- Where do you think you are with your finances and wealth?
- Self-care- Where do you think you are with taking care of yourself?
- You can choose any aspects of your life you want. For example, in the image below, we used these categories::
- Draw 10 lines inside each area, radiating out from the middle.
- Place an X where you think you are at in each of the 8 areas.
- The X indicates how much attention you are giving each of these areas of your life. The closer you are to the outside, the closer you are to your best self.
- Then connect the Xs and examine the shape it makes.
What did you notice about your wheel?
Is it a smooth circle or is it bumpy? Is it small or is it big?
- f your circle is smooth, it indicates that you view all of the areas in your life as being at the same level.
- If your circle is bumpy, it indicates that you view some areas of your life as closer to your “best self” while other areas you are far away from your “best self”.
- If the circle is big, it indicates that you likely are close to your “best self”. This is great, well done!
- If your circle is small, it indicates that you likely are far from your “best self”.
Take this time to indicate which area(s) may need some improving on to make it even closer to your “best life”.
Take this exercise to the next step:
- Look at the areas that you are closest to your “best self.” What have you noticed about these areas in your life? Are there any similarities between them?
- Think about your “Coat of Armour” and your identified values. Is there something that you identified there that is also a strength here?
- What is the difference between the areas that are closest to your “best self” and those furthest?
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- Are there certain values or strengths that are being used in your “best self” areas which are missing in those furthest away?
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- Think about your “Coat of Armour” and identified values. Was there anything included there that was missed as an identified strength in your wheel of life?