How balanced is my life?
Living a balanced life is crucial to success, growth, and relationships. When you get busy with a project and focus on that one thing, other areas of your life may get left behind. This is fine if you are in the middle of a project and if it happens occasionally.
Focusing on one area of your life to the extent that other areas get ignored becomes a problem if it occurs regularly during the month. This is a daily (and sometimes routine) thing for some people. When your life is out of balance like this, you might lose something or someone.
It is a good idea to often step back a bit and take a “helicopter view” of your life to see what eras might need some urgent attention to get things back into balance for you.
This is where the Wheel of Life can help you. It’s called the Wheel of Life because different areas of your life get mapped out like the spokes of a wheel. This tool gives you a visual representation of different areas of your life, how much attention you are giving each, and where you might need to make a few adjustments.
In this example, the Red line represents where this person is currently in life while doing the exercise.
The Blue line represents where this person wants to be in the various areas of life.
The idea is to start working on the area that needs attention to get your “Current line” more balanced into the shape of a wheel, like with the Blue example.
Wheel of Life Example
How do I use the Wheel of Life?
Follow the link below to the page where you can download the pre-filled and blank Wheel of Life templates. You will also get full instructions on how to use it.
FREE Template & Workbook
Download the FREE workbook for the Wheel of Life here and bring balance back into your life.
This workbook is a 7 step guide to help you identify key areas of your life that might need some more attention. It will give you a “helicopter view” of where you are in these areas and where you want to be.
It also includes ideas on how to take action to make these changes.
Other uses for the Wheel of Life?
The Wheel of Life can also be used as a part of goal setting to help you figure out what area of your life is essential and where you want to set a goal. You can learn more about goal setting here.
It can also be used as preparation for coaching to help figure out what area of your life might need the most attention as part of coaching. You can learn more about coaching here.
